The naturally thin people I know think they are being kind when they tell you that all that anyone who is fat needs to do is to cut out 2nd helpings/stop eating so much/push away from the table/stop eating when you're full/ stop snacking/etc.


They believe this because they claim that they could also gain a lot of weight if they aren't careful. But their idea of gaining a lot of weight is 2 or 3 lbs over the course of a year or two.



When they gain that 2-3 lbs, they will then go on what is supposed to be a 2-week crash diet (which they don't even follow correctly because it requires eating food they hate, so they substitute foods they don't hate), lose those 3 lbs in 2 days, and then go right back to their usual eating pattern without regaining any weight, except very slowly creep back up a couple of pounds in another year or two.


Their logic is that if they could lose 3 lbs in 2 days, and you need to lose 60 lbs, then all you need to do is follow their crash diet for 3 weeks and you'll be down to a normal weight. Simple math - no reason why it shouldn't work, because that's how it works for them every time they want to lose 3 lbs.


They won't even listen to the possibility that the first few pounds you lose on any diet - the first couple of weeks - it's primarily water weight, because for them it's NOT water weight. It's the little bit they gained, and found so easy to lose.