Originally Posted by
mikepwagner
The "will power" or discipline model also doesn't explain people - like me - who successfully lose weight at an advanced age.
Am I to believe that I had little or no will power for 57 1/2 years, and that "will power" or discipline was miraculously bestowed on my half way through my 58th year?
I suspect that you simply made a choice, and then stuck with it. Perhaps it was the right time in your life, perhaps there was some other motivating factor, or maybe a basic change in priorities. I did the same, dropping about 30 pounds. Clearly will power in one area of your life doesn't always translate to will power in another are of your life. That doesn't mean that obesity doesn't reflect a lack of will power in that area of the obese person's life. At 6'6" I wasn't obese, but I was certainly above my ideal weight.