This has more to do with hunger requiring a tremendous amount of willpower to ignore rather than fat people having less willpower than people of average weight.

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browningstreet a day ago | parent | next [-]

If you eat poorly, those foods will not satiate and the "hunger" (it's not the hunger of a body starved of calories) persists. Eat for sustenance and the hunger you may feel will be different.

I also know that if I overeat, I have a strong urge to keep feeding (more chips, more pizza, more chipsahoy). Whereas when I eat a proper meal, I'm fine when the eating of that meal ends.

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skywhopper a day ago | parent [-]

I hope you realize that what works for you and your body doesn’t work for everyone. Your experience is not universal. Your body chemistry and genetics are not universal.

	▲	browningstreet 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We can argue about whether or not punching yourself in the face will hurt, universally and for all, or we can acknowledge that arguing about this is picking the wrong level of information with which to take issue. Kids often still need to learn that punching yourself in the face hurts.
	▲	carlosjobim a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		When it comes to the most basic instincts, it is universal and genetic. We do not differ in that.

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WalterBright a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Curiously, if I'm busy I don't get hungry. I don't eat before going out dirt biking, and don't feel hungry at all until after the riding is done and the bikes loaded on the trailer and turning on to the road home.

	▲	tayo42 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Boredom snacking durring the work day kills me, maybe even slowly litteraly.

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PeterStuer a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It feels very different. Depressed people lack the motivation/energy to start exercise, fat people seem more in line with addiction in not being inclined to overcome short term craving for more feed.

While at a certain level of abstraction you can reduce both to A -> !B -> C, that generalization seems to obfuscate specific important differences that impact pathways to treatment. Craving is not the same as lacking energy. Craving, while subversive, energizes, depression does not.

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carlosjobim a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It takes a tremendous amount the first 3-7 times. After that it is a learned skill.

	▲	bunnybomb2 a day ago \| parent [-]
		The entirety of this thread is people thinking life is easy. Kill yourself or get over it, and I mean in a sentimental way.. (Not literally) The only thing that helped my depression, apathy and executive dysfunction was realizing I was going to rot anyways, I was never going to be happy, so I may as well start the startup, go on runs, and succeed. Let go of the expectation you will want to/be in the mood or feel good from it Life is not chocolate malts and gummy bears