Yeah, that endocrine disorder that scientists have been trying to cure for the past 30 years or so can be solved. By diet.
I reckon you should make a phone call to the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Foundation with your astounding discovery, I'm sure they'll be really happy to be told that sufferers can just eat less. Who knew all this time?
You've replied to this story about 15 times defending the woman's eating/exercise habits. What's the agenda here? Most of the people you're taking umbrage with aren't remotely disagreeing with the disorder; merely the assertion that everything is a-okay and nothing more can be done.
The world doesn't work in absolutes and neither should you.
No agenda. But you're right, I have made a few too many comments here. Something must have struck a nerve. Possibly the sheer mean-spiritedness of the comments made (not here) about a stranger.
Indeed. But she makes it clear her diet is under control. The point being made by the poster is what exactly? The poster states that her body can't "defy the laws of physics", like that's helpful or even insightful.
The poster was commenting about weight loss, not mitigating her disorder!
You are arguing a point the parent post never actually made.
She has a fairly common endocrine disorder (5-10% of the female population is millions of people) that makes it easier to gain weight. That does not mean that her body defies the laws of thermodynamics or the conservation of energy, and I'm fairly certain that there are people who suffer from the disorder without being obese.
That isn't to justify the many "Easy!" type comments: Life is tough. We all face tough battles. We all have ways that nature seems to conspire against us. But it does dispute the "I have {x} therefore I am without choice".
As one scientifically vapid, completely and utterly unproven sidenote just because it came to mind during this comment: one observation I've made about people who have difficulty controlling their weight is an almost perfect correlation with an innate desire to maintain warmth at all costs. Very warm houses with the heat set high, thick sweaters, giant comforters, no temperature setback at night. Generating heat is an expensive exercise for the body (calories, of course, are the measurement of the heat potential of foods), so I have to think that these environmental controls contribute to what people call a "low metabolism". I'm the sort of guy who wears a t-shift in the winter and uses the skimpiest threadbare sheet in the 58F house at nighttime, and people always marvel about my "incredible metabolism" as I devour a whole pizza.
I reckon you should make a phone call to the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Foundation with your astounding discovery, I'm sure they'll be really happy to be told that sufferers can just eat less. Who knew all this time?