Judging people inside the fat trap just intensifies their misery and reduces the odds they can get out of it. At 23 I found out I was pre-diabetic and went on a strict three month diet that put me back on a healthy weight. The notion of two traps, a physical trap and a mental trap, comes from Allen Carr’s fantastic Easy Way To Stop Smoking. Getting out of the physical fat trap, strictly speaking, is simple:Develop basic sleep habits so that you get decent sleep. I’m still not out of the mental fat trap, at least not yet.