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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
That's horrible advice. If you are 300 lbs, your odds of developing Type II diabetes go through the roof. That alone will significantly decrease your life expectancy, especially if you aren't adherent to your regimen and don't maintain adequate control of your blood glucose, which is but one complication.
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This.
Diabetes causes heart disease, increases susceptibility to long-term infections, cancer, and all kinds of other things.
Being overweight absolutely IS a big deal, coming from someone who has struggled with it their whole life.