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As every conversation with weigth management/obesity treatment, there are still people thinking that just more willing power / better habits is what's needed.

To those people I suggest you run an experiment : what ever your current body weigth is right now. Try loosing and keeping off 20%.

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> To those people I suggest you run an experiment : what ever your current body weigth is right now. Try loosing and keeping off 20%.

Easy peasy. I’d be borderline anorexie if I do that, but wouldn’t be much of a problem to achieve that.

Are you Dutch by any chance?

Because they seem have a society deeply structured around health, exercise and good eating habits. And they tend to have a "just do X, it's so easy" kind of attitude, forgetting they are benefitting massively from their environment and society and not just will power alone

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