I haven 't read back on the thread but I think it is extremely important we never forget what happened in the concentration camps and to suggest they cannot be mentioned is almost anti semitic. I didn't make a comment like Ken Livingston about someone being a nazi or something which can be very offensive. I just said no one left a concentration camp fat. it's a fact. If you don't eat you lose weight.
I think it's terribly relevant to the thread given that a huge heap of (huge) British women on a daily basis con themselves that they cannot liose weight because of their metabolism, genetics, big bones and a load of other excuses. If they ate fewer calories they would weigh less. There are a few exceptions but nothing like the number who claim they have medical reasons for weight.
On the other hand I Have always said it is very very hard for many people to lose weight and it's not as simple as saying I will decide today to eat fewer calories than I expend. 90% of diet fail and people put on more than they started which actually means statistically you're better off not even starting in most cases. More women are over weight in the Uk than not now. We have reached a point where more people on the whole planet are overweight than starving which I suppose is an achievement of sorts and in the West for the first time ever in history chidlren will live less long than their parents because of obesity. The descent of man into obesity is here.
Given the rubbish most people eat it's not surprising they find it hard to lose weight. I have every sympathy with them .
However I do not think it is offensive to say in those awful awful circumstances in Germany, Japan and elsewhere when people left the camps they were all thin, even those with DNA supposedly saying they should be fat. In fact there's another thread about WWII food and during rationing in the UK we were never as healthy as a nation.
I don't regard my comment as offensive. I would like to hear why people think to say no o ne left the camps fat to illustrate the point that british women deceive themselves when they say if they reduce calories they will not get thinner is offensive. I spend a l ot of time ensuring people do remember the holocaust and it would be awful if it became such a taboo subject we were all damned for bringing it up. I know one school my children were at made a piont that no one left at 13 without having watched Schindler's List in school which was a great tradition.
The basic point stands - if you don't stuff your face you lose weight.
if I could find the magic bullet though to ensure weight loss for all I wouldn't have all this post divorce debt.