Over the years that David’s Way to Health and Fitness has been around, we’ve heard thousands of people complain about how they’ve tried everything to lose weight, but can’t seem to lose their body fat or can’t. not maintain it once they have reached. their target weight. It’s not unlike the patients Brenda Sue encountered as a nurse who claim they don’t understand why they have high blood sugar when they clearly have chocolate on their fingers and lips. People cannot successfully lose weight simply because they refuse to make nutritional lifestyle changes. It really is that clear and simple.
We have read and studied countless diet programs and supplements and have yet to find one that actually works without a permanent change in the dieter’s nutrition. The bottom line is: If you rely on pills, fad diets, and even surgeries to lose weight, none of them will work without a change on your part. To believe otherwise is simply insane.
Fat people almost always claim to want to lose weight, without giving up their heavily processed, sugar-laden convenience foods. I personally know people who eat either at sit-down restaurants or fast food restaurants, at least three times a day. And then they complain about the high cost of medical treatments for their illnesses that are entirely preventable through healthy eating and exercise.
Brenda Sue and I have helped many people lose weight. That being said, there are a lot more people asking how we recommend they lose weight – they say we’re too restrictive and will just try something less restrictive. This is really stupid of them because we are recommending that they ditch their unhealthy food choices and only eat foods that properly nourish their bodies. This is no different from how people ate before America became a country with a majority of fat citizens.
The table and figure below are from the NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
| All (men and women) | Men | Women | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overweight | 30.7 | 34.1 | 27.5 |
| Obesity (including severe obesity) | 42.4 | 43.0 | 41.9 |
| Severe obesity | 9.2 | 6.9 | 11.5 |
As shown in the table above
- Nearly one in three adults (30.7%) is overweight.
- More than one in three men (34.1%) and more than one in four women (27.5%) are overweight.
- More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) suffer from obesity (including severe obesity).
- About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) suffer from severe obesity.
- The percentage of overweight men (34.1%) is higher than the percentage of overweight women (27.5%).
- The percentage of women suffering from severe obesity (11.5%) is higher than the percentage of men suffering from severe obesity (6.9%).
The above statistics only get worse with each passing year, and something needs to be done to reverse the trend. Consider this: the next time you face an emergency, what kind of person do you want to help you?
Imagine if you want:
- The paramedic performing CPR on your mother cannot perform compressions after about a minute because she is too deformed to last as long as needed or relieved.
- The surgeon who performs an operation on your body falls due to a heart attack caused by a poor diet.
- Your diabetic grandfather drops dead at a family gathering because he didn’t manage his diabetes properly.
- A police officer cannot properly respond to your emergency because his obesity does not allow him to do anything intense enough.
- You, or someone you work with, is hurt because another person is more focused on their snack than the task at hand.
I could go on and on with examples, but I hope you understand. There really is nothing acceptable about being fat and out of shape, no matter what positive things people say. Many body positive influencers have died recently due to their obesity and the health complications that come with the territory.
One is a woman named Brittany Sauer, an obese influencer who recently died at the age of 28. The direct cause of her death is unknown, but she struggled with serious health issues related to her obesity, including type 2 diabetes. Tragically, Sauer realized before her death that promoting obesity as healthy and beautiful was a mistake, but this realization came too late. In one of his final TikTok videos before his death, Sauer warned others not to make the same mistakes.
“I ruined my life because of food and binge eating and lack of self-care,” she said in this November 2022 video. “I just want this to be a warning to others . …I hope it’s not too late for me this time.
Another TikTok influencer, Taylor LeJeune, died in January of a “suspected heart attack,” according to the Daily Mail. He did not explicitly or ideologically promote obesity, but his popular videos showed him engaging in insane and extremely unhealthy eating behaviors.
Fat studies professor Cat Pause, who explicitly questioned whether obesity was even unhealthy, also died too young in March 2022, at just 42 years old.
Another woman, Jamie Lopez, starred in a reality show promoting her “Super Sized Salon” dedicated to making overweight women feel beautiful, the Daily Mail reported that
she actually lost weight before her death but nevertheless died of “heart complications” at age 37 in December 2022.
The level of tragedy here is difficult to express in words. Each of these people has loved ones and friends who will desperately mourn their loss and miss their presence for years to come. And each clearly had talents and charisma to offer the world, otherwise they would never have become so popular online. No one should casually cite his death to “appropriate” the other side or lose sight of the heartbreaking reality we face here. In fact, it’s precisely for people like these four and their families that we need to do better and challenge the viral success of “body positivity” movements.