"But I'd be too hungry on a diet" - Tales of fats from the road. How many times have you heard this excuse from fatties? One of the downsides of my site visits right now is I don't get to filter the patients I'm working with purely by weight.  I'm not a clinical doctor, I'm a researcher who owns his own company, and I normally get to choose who I work with.  What my company does is build a technological solution for type 1 and type 2 diabetics to help them lead more normal lives.  I primarily work with kids who didn't ask for this disease, and a few normal weight adults like myself. We're broadening our population and experimental group, however, and that means working with the general populations from hospitals we are partnering with.  I'm getting a mega dose of humanity I didn't want.  Several of our partners are University hospitals and... holy shit... I was not prepared for how fat young "people" are these days.  College campuses may not be the 70% obeast population America as a whole is, but I'm going to hazard a guess at 35-40% of these 18-22 year olds are fats which is just fucking depressing.  So many eatbeasts. And the fat logic is strong with them.  It's not even noon, and this morning our first patient looking to get approved for our device was a hamplanet.  One of the shitlord checks I've built into our clinical trial is an interview to try and judge how likely a patient is to comply with our study.  If we give them the treatment, but they don't log diet properly, for instance, our device will be miscalibrated and it will ruin the study.  Now in actuality we have a lot of tolerance built in for error, because this thing is designed for kids to use.  We have a lot of machine intelligence and error correction built in.  But compliance is a good way to (1) Filter out the fats, and (2) Ensure our data is as strong as possible when we submit to the FDA. One question we hit the potential patients with is their past history with specialized diets, and tracking calories and carbs.  This morning we had a fat say "Oh I tried once, but I'd be too hungry on a diet so I stopped". I have some shitlord ammo for this.  I pulled up nutrition facts on vegetables and asked "How could you be hungry if you made zucchini a regular part of your diet?  A pound of zucchini is only about 70 calories.  By comparison two ounces of cheetos, or 1/8th the food by weight, is 320 calories?  A pound of strawberries is only 134 calories.  A pound of spinach is only 94 calories." "Oh but I don't like those things.  I don't want to eat vegetables." And just like that, BOOM, excluded from our trial population.  I don't even have to mark the reason as "Fat immature manchild".  Instead I write down the DSM-5 diagnosis "Likely ARFID/SED".