Comment by Peroni | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Peroni | Hacker News Reader

Devils Advocate Time.

Technically I'm morbidly obese. I'm 6'3" and I weigh in just shy of 300lbs. This shocks most people as I don't look like someone who weighs close to 300lbs although I'm very obviously overweight. I'm working hard to lose weight purely to prevent myself from dying young so that my son has a Dad he can grow old with.

In the mean time, let me dispel a myth: Fat != Lazy

I have absolutely no doubt that I will have more energy when I'm a healthier weight however I sleep well, I feel good when I wake up, I can maintain focus at a consistently high level throughout my typical 14 hour work day and I still have plenty of energy to chase after my 2 year old boy for a couple of hours in the evening when I get home. I have bags of confidence and as far as I'm concerned, I'm successful.

Being overweight isn't always indicative of laziness, failure or a lack of discipline. Sure you're better off being a healthy weight but beating yourself up for being overweight is torture. Take responsibility for your weight and health, commit to doing something positive to fix it and in the mean time just get on with enjoying life.

I'm over 6,7, or as a European 2m height, and 90kilos.

Being tall means you could weigh more and be healthy, and it depends on your body structure, like bones and so. But probably you need someone else and not you to judge what is your ideal weight.

"I can maintain focus at a consistently high level throughout my typical 14 hour work day"

I have yet to see a person that really works 10 h/d, let alone 14 hours a day, but probably your definition of work is different than mine.

"Being overweight isn't always indicative of laziness, failure or a lack of discipline."

I have a very close family member that is taller than you and also weights more, agree with the laziness thing but I will call it a failure in some way, thinking on the contrary is just deceiving yourself.

For me being morbid obese is the result of the culture and the way of living, specially work routines and eating, everybody could see the statistics of 40 years ago in Europe and US, The only thing that significantly changed is that, what we eat, pre made food with lost of sugar and bad quality fats(enormous unbalance between Omega 6 and 3).

Discipline means nothing if you don't know what to do.

My advice to you is to develop different routines,improve what you eat, let the torture thing for the masochistic fanatics. Start thinking that you are in a hole and you need to get out of it and your life will be better when you get out(if its so good it will be even better).

Start thinking that you are in a hole and you need to get out of it and your life will be better when you get out(if its so good it will be even better).

I think you missed my entire point. I've been heavier. I'm already losing weight. I don't consider myself to be 'in a hole'. I consider myself to have an affliction that's easily cured with a bit of discipline.

A healthier attitude than the "stuck in a hole" one, I would think.

Being tall makes it easy to carry a lot of fat without looking traditionally fat. I'm 6'3 as well. I got up to 139kg -- about 305lb. Losing weight has been easier than I thought it would be. The trick was alighting on an eating pattern that I can sustain indefinitely.

For some folk (like OP) that's paleo. For others, keto. Some people swear by portion control -- I am not one of them!

If I could take one thing back, it would be my cheapshot at overweight people in my weight-control blog post-slash-rant last year (linked elsewhere in the thread). I've left it in, but ... it was mean.

Being a bit of a fat ass, I also used to delude myself into thinking that the "fat-lazy" relationship was a myth. But when I started carrying around my 2 year old girl (who weights ~25libs), I noticed how tired and slow I got after some minutes.

Then I realized that I carry around at least 2x that same weight around my waist all day long...

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