In the years that David’s Way to Health and Fitness has been in existence, we have heard thousands of people lamenting on how they have tried everything to lose weight, yet can either not lose their body fat or can’t keep it off once they reach their goal weight. This is little different than patients that Brenda Sue has encountered as a nurse who claim to not understand why they have high blood-sugar when they clearly have chocolate on their fingers and lips.  People cannot be successful with weight loss simply because they refuse to change their nutritional lifestyle. It really is that plain and simple.

We have read and researched countless diet schemes and supplements and have yet to find one that actually works without a permanent change to the dieters nutrition. The bottom line is; if you are relying on pills, fad diets, and even surgical procedures, for weight loss, none of them will work without change on your part. To believe otherwise is simply foolish.

Fat people almost always will claim to want to lose weight, without giving up their heavily processed, sugar-laden trash foods of convenience. I personally know people who eat at either sit down restaurants or from fast-food drive throughs, three times per day minimum. And then they whine about how the high cost of medical treatments for their ailments that are entirely preventable through healthy nutrition and exercise.

Brenda Sue and I have helped a lot of people to lose weight. That being said, there have been far more people who will inquire about how we recommend for them to lose weight – they will respond that we are too restrictive and they are just going to try something else that is less restrictive. This is really stupid on their part as what we recommend is that they give up their unhealthy food choices and only consume foods that provide proper nutrition to their bodies. No different than how people used to eat before America became a country with a majority of fat citizens.

The chart and figure below is from NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

As shown in the above table

• 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%) have obesity (including severe obesity).
• About 1 in 11 adults (9.2%) have severe obesity.
• The percentage of men who are overweight (34.1%) is higher than the percentage of women who are overweight (27.5%).
• The percentage of women who have severe obesity (11.5%) is higher than the percentage of men who have severe obesity (6.9%).

The above statistics are only getting worse with each passing year, and something needs to be done to turn this around. Consider this, the next time you have some kind of emergency come up, what kind of person do you want helping you?

Imagine if you will:

1. The EMT doing CPR on your mother can’t do compressions after about a minute because they are too out of shape to go as long as needed, or relieved.
2. The surgeon performing a procedure on your body falls over from a heart attack that was brought on by poor nutrition.
3. Your diabetic grandfather falls over dead at a family reunion as a result of not properly managing his diabetes.
4. A police officer cannot properly respond to your emergency because his obesity will not allow him to do anything strenuous.
5. You, or someone you work with gets hurt because another person is concentrating more on their snack food than on the task at hand.

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

One is a woman named Brittany Sauer, an obese influencer who recently died at the tender age of 28. Her direct cause of death is unknown, but she struggled with severe health problems related to her obesity, including Type 2 diabetes. Tragically, Sauer realized before her death that promoting obesity as healthy and beautiful was a mistake, yet this realization came too late. In one of her last TikTok videos before her death, Sauer warned others not to make the same mistakes.

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

Another TikTok influencer named Taylor LeJeune dropped dead in January from a “presumed heart attack,” according to the Daily Mail. He didn’t explicitly or ideologically promote obesity, but his popular videos were of him engaging in insane and extremely unhealthy eating behaviors.

“Fat studies” professor Cat Pause, who explicitly questioned whether obesity was even unhealthy, has also died too young in March 2022 at just 42.

Another woman, Jamie Lopez, starred in a reality TV show promoting her “Super Sized Salon” dedicated to making overweight women feel beautiful, the Daily Mail has reported that
she did lose some weight before her death but nonetheless died from “heart complications” at age 37 in December 2022.

The level of tragedy here is hard to put into words. Each one of these people has loved ones and friends who will desperately mourn their loss and miss their presence in the years to come. And each one clearly had talents and charisma to offer the world, or they’d never have become so popular online. No one should glibly cite their deaths to “own” the other side or lose sight of the heartbreaking reality we’re dealing with here. In fact, it’s exactly for people like these four and their families that we need to do better and challenge the “body positivity” movements’ viral success.

 

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