What I find baffling in Judy is the food selection and timing more than anything.

I'll preface this with the fact that I am also fat (working on being marginally less so), and that I've never gone on a hike (yet). However i have a friend that hikes and his interest made me want to look in to it more and research some stuff a bit as well as gain info from them.

Even before I started looking in to it, let alone after, I didn't know what foods exactly to pack, but never in a million years would I say that those foods were good to bring on a hike let alone eat before the hike. like just that alone makes me wonder the thought process here.

The exact reasons why people are fat vary a bit from person to person (Although i will agree with you here that this is a "you did this to yourself" thing)

To me it seems like a mindset problem for her. Meaning, something has to change the mindset to change the body. It's one of those things like "Lose weight, diet, excercize" are just words, and you're like "yeah that's right that's what i should be doing it" but once your mindset changes those words become instinctive like "all i have to do is diet and excersize, which is the stuff i've been saying this whole time, but now..."

What changes the mindset? While i'm no expert, it's the kinda revalations you get by doing something. Fighting through lack of motivation, but through regiment and being rewarded by the result. Sometimes it's something that just in your mind says "I don't want to be like this anymore" which could be brought on by a bunch of things

Nothing you can really do for someone like that except be there and support them when they're ready to make the move.

Hell, who knows, maybe this moment was the wakeup call she needed?