I have a couple more points to make about obesity.

First, we know that if we eat less and exercise more we will lose weight. So it seems like you can blame people for making bad choices or not trying hard enough.

But we also know that we can consciously stop breathing. But few people have the willpower to hold their breath until they pass out. I used to spearfish, and every spear fisherman worth his salt has passed out underwater at least once (you don't drown, your throat latches shut, you splay out with an arched back, and your buddy pushes you to the surface where you wake up and ask "did I get the fish?"... and only idiots spearfish without a buddy). With practice, you can indeed hold your breath to the point of passing out, but it is difficult and takes practice.

Keeping the weight off is also difficult, and over a much longer term period of time (your entire life, no matter what else is going on) it is difficult to maintain weight via willpower. In fact studies show that it is pretty much impossible to do it longterm with willpower.

The other thing I'd like to direct your attention to is not a thing, but a person. Mandy Sellars (look her up). Mandy has huge legs and a very skinny torso. She is eating far too much food for her 17 stone legs, but far too little food for her emaciated body from the waist up. Given the exact same diet, it is making part of her very fat, but another part of her very skinny. What if your whole body was made of her greedy leg tissue? Would it be your fault that you were fat and yet still hungry all the time?

Finally, as I mentioned in some replies, even if you are going to fail, it is worth trying to lose weight. Small weight loss, repeated yoyoing, it is all better than nothing. We all lose in the end anyways.

7 years ago I discovered keto and I lost 20kg in a year. The great thing is you can always eat as much as you want and you still lose weight if you stick to extreme low carb even without any exercise at all.

I do not live alone and the others are not on my diet, so there's always temptations around. Chocolate, Nutella, cookies, cake ... and I had gained 10kg on these temptations but with discipline I'm currently at -15kg.

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I have gout. I can't eat that much meat. I know it works and I would if I could. I suppose I could eat just eggs, milk and cheese. Hrmmmm.

Have you tried fasting for a couple days? Keto is just a form of insulin management. Fasting and intermittent fasting are other ways of doing that.

I like fasting. I usually fast for 1 day (and the night before and after). It's easier than dieting. It really helps drain the liver of glycogen. I consider it imperative given my conditions.

I may have sleep apnea, hypertension, dyslipidemia obesity and gout (the classical metabolic syndrome)... but I'm not at all hyperglycemic. My hlab1c readings have always been stellar.

20 years ago a doctor tried to scare me, told me I was tipping into diabetes and I needed to follow his extreme diet plan or I would become diabetic and not be able to reverse course. I followed his plan for a while. Anyhow here I am 20 years later, I still have low blood sugars, I'm not diabetic nor hyperglycemic.

So the theory that insulin management or blood sugar control will solve all the cases of obesity, or all the cases of metabolic syndrome, cannot be correct. It might be true in some or even many cases, but there is something else going on in my case.

But yes, I like fasting. I find it pretty easy actually.

Boy, I don't care about privacy a bit do I?

The trick with keto is not the protein but the fat.

The goal everybody knows about is "low carb" but most think that means you eat filet all day every day. I eat the most fatty meat and as my family members often don't like the fat, I eat theirs, too. You need some protein but not for energy. For energy you need fat.