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If You Feel Depressed About Your Weight Why Not Exercise And Eat Less?
More very unhelpful advice
This is a question I’ve seen everywhere. Social media, Quora, forums, diet sites, news sites and even medical sites. People who’ve never had a larger body love to throw this one out in a glib manner. As if it was one of the easiest things in the world. As anyone who has ever tried to lost weight knows, it isn’t!
A multitude of factors controls our weight, including genetic, health-related, racial, geographical, economic, emotional, medication-related and ability related.
It is an immensely complicated topic, and we need more visibility of that fact. Trotting out the tired cliche that feeling depressed about your weight is something that you can easily fix drives me out of my mind! Here’s my response to that question:
Diets Don’t Work
This is something that it’s vital you understand. Diets do not work. Period. There have been numerous studies looking a the efficacy of diets over the years. Many of them were directly paid for by the diet industry, which automatically makes their results suspect. However, the very best results any of them produced is that 5% of participants lost…
