I do empathize with those of us who carry more weight than we should although having got of my backside to do something about it - I do find it hard to listen to overweight people moaning about their weight yet carrying on eating! For example I work with an overweight lady and she has tried every tablet available through the NHS - she's just started on the new one available (the name of which I forget) yet just today she went out for chinese at lunchtime came back with cream cakes! I have told her I'm on LT and she just thought I was completely barmy! Every day she moans about her weight yet is unwilling to change her lifestyle and worse still she seems to enjoy trying to make me fail - leaves biscuits, sweets, cakes etc on my desk and then sends me emails daring me to eat something!
Having said all that I do totally understand the difficulty in getting the self esteem together to do something about it, it took me years and this forum to do something about it. I think good support is the way forward! And I do think there are some overweight people who are totally happy with there lot!
Sorry about the rant guys!