In the article "One Man Explains Why He Swears by Wearing Spanx," what problems does Fanning say diet and exercise can help with?

Look
near the beginning article to find the answers to these questions. Fanning chooses not to dwell
on them for very longafter all, at the end of the article he wryly accepts that choosing to wear
Spanx is a way of avoiding having to confront the real him, while still feeling a bit better
about himself than he might usually. He says that he has never reached a place of
"acceptance" and suggests that his weight has fluctuated a lot since he was in the
fifth grade. From this, we can understand that Fanning is saying diet and exercise can only do
so muchthey can change our bodies, but they cannot ever make us accept ourselves
fully.

He expands upon this in the next paragraph, stating that while diet
and exercise can "fix physical things to varying degrees," the "problem"
that remains is the mental oneeven when we have managed to make our bodies smaller, there are
still feelings which are not "rational" which remain. Particularly for people who have
always been overweight, it can be difficult to see our bodies and like what we are looking at,
Fanning suggests.