Hmm, many overweight people I know don’t treat it like the disease it is. Some even got diabetes, but don’t want to give up their eating habits. They just don’t want t

You could make the same comment about smokers, they are not seeing themselves as sick, but as life enjoyer who want to keep that little piece of pleasure. And when they want to quit, they want an instant-drug that would solve everything.

In the 80's/90's we were living in a society actively promoting smoking, now we're in a society actively promoting sugar and fat causing people to be overweight. It's even worst because you often don't see the global picture, like A and B are both taking a burger and a dessert at the restaurant outing, but A goes to the restaurant once a month, while B goes twice a week, A never eats for breakfast while A takes large breakfast. the result is that it feels like that the slim and the fat one are eating the same stuff.