SMWI*: It’s simple. More in than out.

You read.  Articles.  Books. Magazines. Posts.

Much of it blows in one ear and out the other.

Not this one.  This article is from The Monthly and is titled Fat City.  It has stuck with me since last weekend.  It’s long but captivating. Seared in long term memory.

Karen Hitchcock is an Australian author and medical doctor.

A few excerpts:

• Barring the gravely ill and a couple of men, everyone I know wants to lose weight.
• As a doctor, I no longer know what to do about the obese.
• people quit smoking, cut down on their drinking and sometimes lose weight. But usually counselling people to lose weight is hopeless.
• and obesity seems simple: more in than out
• love reading articles with titles like ‘How I Lost 25 Kilos’, even though the answer is always the same: I ate less.
• Who wants to eat less – of anything – when…