Originally Posted by bkloots

From my long experience with exercise videos, not to mention weight loss gurus, I venture to say that very few of those leaders and promoters have ever been obese at any time in their lives. Most of these people either began their careers as fitness professionals, or gained a few pounds in midlife and came up with a system to fix their changing physiology. Not much of it applies to the problem of obesity in the larger (pardon the expression) sense.