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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I promise you that if you do a deep dive into what she’s actually eating and accurately look at the calories in vs calories out, it’d be very apparent why she’s overweight.

It doesn’t have to be junk, a lot of it is portion size or mindlessly eating “healthy” snacks.[/quote]

Please stop with this old fashioned simplicity. Not all people who are overweight are so due to input. It's what the body does and does not do with the input. Not every human body can/does process food the same way.[/quote]

I have 3 teens and it is incredibly obvious that weight is about far more than “calories in, calories out” etc. What my 3 kids eat appears to have no bearing whatsoever on their weight. Literally none. 2 of them are super skinny (at very bottom of healthy range)  and can’t gain no matter how many calories they eat (even supervised by a nutritionist with enormous calorie surplus).  3rd kid eats WAY less than siblings and has a very average build. Seems likely this would apply in the opposite direction with weight as well.

I’m not defending lots of junk food for any kid regardless of weight, and obesity should be addressed- absolutely. But no way is it just about “calories in calories out”[/quote]

+1. These weight arguments are so stupid. If your child told you he couldn’t see the board when he sits in class, would you just tell him he needs to discipline his eyes to look harder? Or would you get him glasses?

Obesity is the same way. The mechanism that tells you to stop eating is missing. Telling a kid to stop eating when he’s full doesn’t work if he doesn’t know when he is full. You need to put on some kind of glasses/medication that gives that signal.[/quote]

Ozempic found the thread:
You all have mechanisms that don’t tell you to stop eating. Hence you are obese.

We have a drug for that. It makes you nauseous and never hungry. Sometimes you don’t eat for a whole day or two. Nutrition be damned. You’ll be on it forever and get flappy skin and ozempic face.

You won’t be healthy unless you eat nutritious foods and get some cardiovascular health back.

Good luck! [/quote]

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