Should the NHS pay for the consequences of you eating pie?

[TheBigYinJames]

I'm impressed! Oh, you mean teens of stones weight.
If you're steady at 21.5 stone, can you get to 12.5 stone by just eating 1 bag of quavers less a day? I doubt it.

Yes, teens stones, and dropping (i have a 10km run in Sept and I want to lose another couple by then)

Nah that's exactly my point, you can get from 12 to 21 by eating a pack of quavers extra day for 10 years, but you can't go the other way by eating a pack less a day for 10 years.

You have to do something much more drastic, and not everybody can do it. In fact i would say that most people couldn't do it, including a lot of the people fortunate enough not to let themselves get fat in the first place. Unless you've had to lose 5-10 stone of body mass, you can't comprehend the difficulties.