Crazy diet and wishful thinking

In the years that David's Method to Health and Fitness has been around, we've heard thousands of people lament how they've tried everything to lose weight, yet can't lose body fat or can't keep it off once they reach the weight. Weigh their goal. This is a little different from the patients Brenda Sue has met as a nurse who claim they don't understand why their blood sugar is high when they clearly have chocolate on their fingers and lips. People cannot succeed in losing weight simply because they refuse to change their dietary lifestyle. It's really easy and simple.

We have read and researched countless diet regimens and supplements and have yet to find one that actually works without permanently changing dieters' nutrition. The bottom line is; If you rely on pills, diets, and even surgeries to lose weight, none of it will work without change on your part. To believe otherwise is simply foolish.

Overweight people always claim that they want to lose weight, without giving up highly processed foods full of sugar. I personally know people who eat in restaurants or at fast food restaurants, at least three times a day. Then they complain about the high cost of medical treatments for their diseases that are entirely preventable through healthy nutrition and exercise.

Brenda Sue and I have helped many people lose weight. However, there were far more people who would inquire about the method we recommended for them to lose weight – they would answer that we were too restrictive and they would try something else, less restrictive. This is really stupid on their part because what we are recommending is to give up their unhealthy food choices and only consume foods that provide proper nutrition to their bodies. It's no different than what people used to eat before America became a country with a majority of obese citizens.

The chart and figure below are from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

As shown in the table above

• Nearly 1 in 3 adults (30.7%) are overweight.
• More than 1 in 3 men (34.1%) and more than 1 in 4 women (27.5%) are overweight.
• More than 2 in 5 adults (42.4%) are obese (including severe obesity).
• About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) are obese.
• The percentage of overweight men (34.1%) is higher than the percentage of overweight women (27.5%).
• The percentage of women suffering from severe obesity (11.5%) is higher than the percentage of men suffering from severe obesity (6.9%).

The above statistics are getting worse with each passing year, and something must be done to change this situation. Consider this, the next time you face an emergency, what kind of person do you want to help you?

Imagine if you want:

1. The EMT performing CPR on your mother cannot administer compressions after about a minute because they have become too out of shape to hold for as long as needed, or are loosened.
2. The surgeon performing surgery on your body collapses from a heart attack caused by malnutrition.
3. Your diabetic grandfather dropped dead during a family reunion as a result of not properly managing his diabetes.
4. A police officer cannot properly respond to your emergency because obesity will not allow him to do anything strenuous.
5. You or someone you work with gets hurt because someone else is more focused on their snacks than on the task at hand.

I could go on with examples, but I hope you get the point. There is really nothing acceptable about being fat and out of shape no matter what positive people may say about being fat. There are more than a few of these body positive influencers who have recently died as a result of obesity and the health complications that come with the territory.

One of them is a woman named Brittany Sawyer, an obese influencer who recently died at the age of 28. The direct cause of her death is unknown, but she was suffering from severe health problems related to obesity, including type 2 diabetes. Sadly, before her death, Sawyer realized that promoting obesity as healthy and beautiful was a mistake, but this realization came too late. In one of the last videos she posted on TikTok before her death, Sawyer warned others not to make the same mistakes.

“I have ruined my life through food, binge eating, and lack of self-care,” she said in the video, which aired in November 2022. “I just want this to be a warning to other people. … I hope it's not too late for me this time.”

Another TikTok influencer named Taylor LeJeune died in January of a “supposed heart attack,” according to the Daily Mail. He did not explicitly or ideologically promote obesity, but his popular videos would show him engaging in crazy and extremely unhealthy eating behaviors.

Fat Studies professor Cat Boz, who openly questioned whether obesity was unhealthy, died far too young in March 2022 at just 42 years old.

Another woman, Jamie Lopez, starred in a reality TV show to promote her “super-size salon” dedicated to making plus-sized women feel beautiful, the Daily Mail reported.
She lost some weight before her death but died of “heart complications” at the age of 37 in December 2022.

It is difficult to describe the level of tragedy here in words. Each of these people has loved ones and friends who will deeply mourn their loss and miss their presence in the years to come. It's clear that each of them has talent and charisma to offer the world, otherwise they wouldn't be so popular online. No one should explicitly cite his death in order to “own” the other side or lose sight of the heartbreaking reality we are dealing with here. In fact, for people exactly like these four and their families, we need to do better and challenge the viral success of the “body positivity” movements.

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