Oh don't get me wrong. I don't sympathize anymore than I sympathize with an addict who refuses to get clean.  It just blows my mind that obesity seems to be the only thing that we allow this level of head in the sand idiocy to propagate.  I'm a medical researcher looking at mechanisms of obesity and diabetes in children and pregnancy. I know probably better than anyone what it does to you and that you are the only reason.    To get so fucking fat that you no longer have a humanoid body and to manage to keep gaining...you just have to have a mental problem.