Self discipline/control is essentially ALL it takes, the will to want to lose weight and the determination to continue. I can say this having lost 5 stone (veeery fat) over the last 2 years, however by no means was it easy, I didnt crash diet but merely gradually changed my lifestyle.
Understandably it has to be noted that not everyone can afford to or can incorporate a change in lifestyle, for many it is a routine, a rut, which is hard to get out of, the environment which they live in/have grown up in (children) makes self discipline all that bit harder. Placing considerable pressure and keep reiterating the same points (ala the "Fatty" thread) can have a derogatory effect upon someones will to lose weight.
There is no point keep droning on, using sweeping statements and labelling everyone in a collectivist sense, it is up to the individual and the individual only, every person has a different circumstance. Suggesting that "fat" people are cut off from the NHS, while paying taxes is an absolute ludicrious statement. The majority of people on here are students, do they pay taxes? No, surely looking at it from the prespective we should be cut off from the NHS... Its not going to happen.
I urge people to stop going on about "fat" and lay it to rest, cause quite simply it is becoming a bore.