We can be kind and decent and respectful.

We can acknowledge each person’s dignity and not be ugly or callous to our fellow man/woman.

But it is essential that we be honest about the myriad structural and physiological harms to which chronic severe obesity (BMI > 35) leads. It’s a chronic inflammatory state.

We shouldn’t shame, but we sure as hell shouldn’t be spouting lies in a specious effort to buoy self-esteems.

Cash

You've got my vote

Some people can keep thin throughout life without trying. Some people gain weight by looking at a donut. So many factors play a part.

Can we all agree obesity is a health issue with massive implications to society, that we should be addressing it, but that not everyone is obese because they (as the person in this article is doing) chow down unrepentantly?

Some people need the extra push - ozempic and wegovy aren't magic bullets - they suppress hunger cravings and make you want to barf if you eat too much. I don't know anyone who would be on it if it didn't help or work when nothing else does.

Above all else, I am very angry at the person in the article because they're a borderline caricature of real life weight struggles of people who are not pompous idiots.

That's it. *

Cosign

I am proud to be down 45 pounds from 5 years ago thanks to diet and exercise, but I still deal with the effects of carrying too much weightt for too long. I feel for her children.