I really hate stories like this - a local man lost 198 pounds in less than a year -

[hedgehog]

http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/11/fulton_man_loses_198_pounds_in_10_months_wins_bet_with_wife.html


but - before the weight loss - he was drinking 12-14 Mountain Dews a day, among other things!

Thin people read stories like this and assume every overweight person is eating this way. It's not always true and I suspect it's not even often true!

[Still Blue in PDX]

1. More fodder for the "fat people are lazy and gluttonous" believers.

I'd love to trade metabolisms with an obnoxious skinny person for a week or so and let him or her find out what it's really like.