People like to talk about how it’s impossible to lose weight and always reach for some made-up number like only 1% who try to do so keep it off. The real number is between 20%-30% are successful. (Though that is still not great, admittedly.)

However, I lost a lot of weight and kept it off now for 15 years¹. Seemed pretty easy, really. What’s so different about me?

Fat Acceptance bullshit is so clownish and harmful. And greatly contributes to the problem by accepting defeat preemptively.

1. Though I regained some as muscle by working out a fucking lot.