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[quote=Anonymous]Given your background OP, you will be far more successful with your clients and in your profession if you carve out a niche working with those who are just overweight and out of shape – those with less than 30 or 40 lbs to lose and/or those wanting to get in shape/start exercising.

You are just not going to be the right person to counsel a very overweight or obese person. I understand where you are coming from. I posted before that I was morbidly obese and after having surgery have been a normal weight for a few years.  Even though I was obese for 10+ years, it took a very short time for me to forget what it really feels like to be so overweight and to really remember how difficult everything about daily life could be.  I think for someone who has never been in that position, you are just never going to get it no matter how much you read or talk to others.  I do remember being 5’3” weighing 305lbs and only being able to do about 10 minutes of housework before being so tired I had to sit down for an hour.  Carrying that much weight makes doing even very simple tasks hard so you tend to sit a lot.  I couldn’t even walk through the mall for a short time without getting tired, winded and having my feet ache.  I do recall going to eat at restaurants and not fitting in the booth. The table literally cut into my stomach. My own sympathy level for the obese has dipped way down and I find myself looking at people and be more judgmental especially when I see them chowing down at a fast food joint or a restaurant eating huge portions.  I have also noticed that most of the overweight kids I see do in fact have an overweight parent and I find that even worse.   And before anyone mentions it, yes, weight loss surgery does have a failure rate but it also has a success rate and many overweight and obese people hold up the failure rate as a reason to not get the surgery but seem to disregard the success rate.  I did too for a long time but decided I was going to be the 50% who succeeded and I have been.

Being overweight is unhealthy. You can not be overweight and healthy. Excess weight puts a strain on the heart (medically proven) as well as the joints (medically proven) as well as other issues such as sleep apnea (medically proven).  The damage is happening to the body internally and may not manifest itself for years to come but it is happening.  So just being able to walk up the stairs and not get winded isn’t proof of being healthy nor is being in “shape”.

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