nonethefewer | Weird clicking moment. (Reply)

I just had a bit of a duh-n00b moment whilst reading a blog elsewhere, so I'll put my comment here.

The various dieting programs (WW, Jenny Craig, whatever the hell) market themselves as being Awesome Like Whoa at providing weight loss. They don't disclose the real numbers or do any real long-term studies, so all the public has to go on is how they market themselves. And then said public sees fat people. So naturally, they're not going to even know, necessarily, how nigh-impossible it is to lose weight – they're just going to assume that these people are lazy, otherwise they'd be thin right now, as per WW's (and others') advertising.

I got this notion from that link and from a post at Alas, A Blog: "If anyone could reliably make fat people thin, they'd soon have more money than Microsoft and Haliburton combined."