UnknownYetSavory t1_iu316gn wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:29 AM

People don't want to cook. It really just comes down to that. They want other people to make their food for them, and because of that the responsibility of maintaining a healthy diet is shifted onto a third party that doesn't care and was never meant to care if you're fat. People just need to cook man, it's so easy, and fun, and rewarding, and you can actually control what you put in your body. Of course, mental illness can screw things up too. When the brain turns against you, there isn't much you can do.

jherico t1_iu331em wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:49 AM

This is just an appalling take that overlooks the fact that there are wealthy fat people. Like "wealthy enough to have a personal trainer and a full time personal chef" people.

I'm not personally that rich but I still earn enough to buy pre-cooked meals from services like Factor 75 or meals that I still need to cook from services like Blue Apron and it doesn't fucking help.

Being overweight and losing that weight is so monstrously hard that the only way to do so reliably is to undergo surgery that permanently impacts your diet and lifestyle.

If your take of people just being lazy were valid you'd expect some percentage of people to be able to turn it around, but for every success story you might see here on Reddit or in other media, there are so many people stuck in obesity that the people who succeed are basically a statistical fluke.

https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/fat-officially-incurable-according-to-science

UnknownYetSavory t1_iu35k62 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:17 AM

Nah, it's really easy. I had a bad case of depression that left me unable to drive without fear of wrecking, let alone doing anything else, and I gained forty pounds in that time, a course of two years. Lost the weight in about three months. It's really easy. Wealth has nothing to do with it, you even said yourself that you're paying people to select your food for you. It should be of no surprise that selecting the right food for you is not their priority, making money is. Cooking is cheap (the cheapest possible option), it's easy, and you can have absolute control of what you eat.

Want to eat broccoli and mushrooms? Then you cook broccoli and mushrooms. Want to eat a salad with chicken and whatever vegetables you like? Then you make that salad. No preservatives, no added sugars. If you're having a problem finding something to stick to, cut out sugar and starches (bread, rice, etc). That's an easy diet to work around, and it's the one I typically use whenever I want to lose some weight.