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Thread: A love note about David Kessler, the guy who helped save my life. (Plus a little weight loss overshare and a little anti-capitalist rant)
For a few weeks now I have been wondering why the name David Kessler sounds familiar to me. Maybe some guy at school? Maybe my mom worked with a David Kessler?
I decided it must be from NPR. That magical land where names stick in your memory without connection to anything. There must be a David Kessler on NPR.
Then #maddow had him on last night. David Kessler. Oh his face is familiar too. Hmm. FDA something something. WAIT A SECOND...[races to wikipedia]
YES! David Kessler wrote a book called “The End of Overeating.” I got chills and happy tears at the realization. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295065-the-end-of-overeating
This is the book that changed everything for me. I had been painfully and morbidly obese for 9 years. I had tried fad diets, weight watchers, extreme calorie cuts followed by binges. I felt like I was always trying. And failing. It was misery.
In October 2010, I was nearing my highest weight. Again. I needed to do something about it. Again. Lots of beautiful synchronicities came all at once, including finding The End of Overeating.
David Kessler had spent his career exposing the tobacco industry. He took the same energy to the food industry to explain why and how we got to this overeating culture.
Instead of the “it’s ok you guys, just eat less!” pie in the sky stuff that did not work for me, his message hit me in that activist brain space that forces change. Once I know it, I have to act. And the message I got was this: Fuck fast food joints.
There’s actually a thing called “share of stomach.” Think market share, but the pie chart is your literal body and they literally want to expand it so you buy more. Fuck them. Omg fuck em.
I was a target. I was hooked. They needed me to be obese to add shareholder value. 
I calculated how much I had spent at Starbucks, McDonalds, and Subway. Well over $10,000. FUCK THEM.
I calculated how much I had spent at Starbucks, McDonalds, and Subway. Well over $10,000. FUCK THEM.
I got help. I hired a team of professionals with all the money I wasn’t spending on crap food indented to slowly kill me. I enlisted 4 trusted friends who wouldn’t sabotage me. My team. With David Kessler as inspiration.
It took 2 years of intensity and 8 more years of adjustments. I still have around 40 pounds I’m working on. But I dropped 110 pounds and I’m not obese anymore. (Said in a joyful voice: “I’m overweight!!”)
Thank you David Kessler. Fuck you food-industrial complex. Thanks for reading 
