Weight loss article = opinions. On that we can all agree. I can see both sides. Weight is a personal responsibility but society is so broken in terms of how easy it is to gain weight / hard to lose it and maintain. The world makes it incredibly easy to put on weight / not learn how to lose it (thanks for nothing food industry and diet industry - both motivated by profit not health . Then people shame you when weight gain happens. Self-loathing sets in. The circle continues.