The Jolly Fat Person is a myth, They are sad, depressed, and lonely. Obesity is not a state of mind it is a clinical disease.
I awoke one day in a hospital, and given just two years to live. I was told that I am Morbidly Obese, with Chronic Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, and as a smoker I had forgone the right to medical help. Go and get your affairs in order and "see if you can find someone to make a coffin big enough to fit you. Perhaps consider a double plot." So began a journey to lose weight and get fit. It has been an up hill struggle all the way. If you have tried to lose weight or you are trying to lose weight, understand it is not because you are a pig that cannot walk past the refrigerator without stopping for a while. There is a real clinical chemical imbalance at work in your body at a cellular level. This journey was one of learning, research and trial and error, I did things I could not recommend, but I am now 72 kilos lighter and with only 14 more to go to become half the man I was when I started 10 years ago, and still sticking my nose up to the medical establishment. https://www.createspace.com/3659550