Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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> Thank you for your advice. I'm glad it will be so simple.

If anything simple worked no one would be fat. Go to the mall and look.
There are fat people there more than in any previous generation. If you
imagine that even one of those fat people hasn't tried a long list of
simple approaches you're delusional. Whatever the solution is it isn't
simple.

With a caveat. I once wrote the same thing with the word moderation in
the place of simple. Someone responded that if folks do more and more
work without limit until it worked then moderation would work. I
pointed out that "more and more without" is not what moderate means.
The person was suggesting an inmoderate solution and calling it moderate.

So I'll point out a simple solution that isn't easy. Running a marathon
by a person in excellent shape burns about a pound of fat. It's why
there are zero obese marathoners. If every fat person in the world
started training for marathons and started doing marathons there would
be no more fat people in a few years. But even that's not really
simple. The reason the first Marathon is still famous is the guy who
ran it died. Training to survive a marathon is a different than just
starting to walk on a treadmill and building to runs.

Simple - Here's a pick axe and shovel. There's a mountain. Move it
several feet south please. Sometimes simple is the opposite of easy.

Clearly my paragraph at the top doesn't quite work with the word
"simple" the way it does with "moderation". It works with either
"easy" or "moderate". Think about it - The paragraph also works with
the word "acceptable".