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A Mother's Diets Shaped A Childhood
- Michael Hobbes recounts his mother's lifelong dieting and how it affected family photos and his emotions.
- He felt shame, anger, and developed a chip on his shoulder about society's treatment of larger people.
Size Isn't The Same As Health
- Body size does not reliably indicate metabolic health; many larger people are metabolically healthy and some thin people are not.
- You cannot judge health from appearance; blood tests are required for accurate assessment.
The Body Fights Weight Loss
- The body defends a weight set point through hormones, temperature, and appetite regulation, making sustained weight loss biologically difficult.
- Simple calorie-in/calorie-out thinking ignores automatic regulatory systems that restore weight changes.