What a profoundly ignorant and callous comment, delivered with the confidence of someone blissfully unaware of their own intellectual limitations. Your simplistic, reductionist take on something as complex as weight management and mental health is not only insulting, but it also dismisses decades of medical and psychological research as if it were an afterthought. You seem to believe that all human behavior can be boiled down to a matter of “just being a grown-up,” as though the myriad struggles of metabolic disorders, trauma and countless other conditions can be overcome by a mere flick of a mental switch—how convenient for you.

Your blithe suggestion that people are “letting an excuse control their life” is a staggering display of ignorance, wrapped in the smugness of someone who has likely never faced such challenges themselves. The idea that simply “controlling your eating habits” is a solution for everyone reveals a shocking lack of empathy and a deep misunderstanding of the human condition. If it were as easy as you claim, we’d have no need for the fields of psychiatry, endocrinology, or behavioral science. But no, in your world, all it takes is a little “grown-up” willpower, as if psychological and physiological factors are mere inconveniences to be brushed aside.

And then, to cap off this masterclass in idiocy, you offer the “advice” to start smoking—because, of course, when one is struggling with health, why not recommend a habit that leads to cancer, heart disease, and premature death? Your comment is a testament to the dangers of unqualified people offering “solutions” to problems they clearly don’t understand.

If only you could recognize that the complexity of human health goes far beyond your hollow platitudes. But alas, it seems you’ve chosen the easy path—the path of dismissal, arrogance, and a gross oversimplification of issues that affect millions if not billions of people. In the end, your “advice” is not just unhelpful; it’s irresponsible, uninformed, and beneath anyone who claims to have a shred of understanding or empathy.