Obesity care: why “eat less, move more” advice is failing

“Eat less, move more” in my case looked like going to bed hungry from lack of money and doing hours of manual labor every day for about 18 months.

I got down to my ideal weight, but as soon as I wasn’t broke and didn’t have to do manual labor I went right back to being fat.

Then excercise in your free time, go on walks, use walking or cycling, meal prep and fix your life. If you won't put in the effort to change yourself then do not act suprised when you are dissatisfied with your current situation. I don't understand how you can completely miss the fact that you need to take accountability and fix yourself rather than blame people for giving you advice. You are the problem, and instead of lamenting about your life on social media you should be bettering yourself.
- I think i speak for everyone when i say:
  Shut the fuck up.
  Your worthless comment and shit attitude is not welcome here.
  Leave.
- A complete lack of understanding on the topic. People like you in the medical field are killing people
- Congratulations you managed to be exactly what the article is talking about by only reading the headline

Articles like this piss me off. Not because it's a bad article, but because it's stuff we've known for ages. Especially the environment stuff. You can't say obesity costs the NHS and not fix the underlying problems. How can you justify processed food not being taxed to oblivion while allowing for price gauging of organic foods for example. The system is fucked!

"Eat less, move more" is the goal, but many obese people have massive hurdles to go and do that. Be it time, mental health, social circle, etc. It's insanely hard to be able to even take time to reassess your daily routine and even more so to actually try to get out of your patterns.

Did you read the article?
- Nope, I didn't take the time yet, but I assume that's the point it makes. I've experienced it first and second hand, so it's good to see that point being acknowledged.

Stigmatisation of fat people in the medical industry is a real and extremely dangerous phenomenon that actively harms public health. The registration of obesity as a disease WILL increase the stigma even more and put everyone in even greater risks apart from being completely useless.

For the rest, this article is very true. The proper steps and objectives indicated help with the health of every human, regardless of body size. The same proper steps help everyone be more healthy regardless if they are maintaining, losing or gaining weight.

Being fat is a serious health issue. Sugar coating it doesn’t help anyone. It enables unhealthy behavior even more than it already is.
- Just being considered fat is not an health risk to the amount you think it is. A very large amount of research attributing fat directly to certain issues is outdated.
  https://www.jci.org/articles/view/31021
  https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0060237
  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9102424/
being completely useless
Can't it help with getting treatment for it? At least here in the US you have to justify everything as medically necessary or your insurance won't cover it.
Anecdotally my mom is obese and was getting glp 1 for a while but she doesn't any more because the insurance said it wasn't necessary to treat her borderline diabetes and they stopped covering it.
- Hearing/reading how it is in the US, it won't change much of anything. They will still decline it

Someone didn't read the article
- Obesity isn’t just about what people eat or how often they exercise. It’s shaped by biology, experience and the environment we build around people.
  Changing the food industry and/or regulation isn't easy for a single person, even if every bit of pressure helps.
  At some point there is physics involved and calories matter. I guess it could be framed as the industry's failure to produce healthy food, which individuals can try to workaround by comparing calorie count when choosing food, and by avoiding soda.
  It'd be interesting to see if there's any study to verify if making nutritional recommandation works better when stressing it's in large part an industry's failure, in order to minimize feeling of failure from individuals.
At this point I wonder if all of you people are brainwashed to be spouting blatant dangerous misleading info and completely refuse to let go of research that was done in the early 1900's