Yeah broooo it’s soooo complicated actually sick ppl lose weight by eating a lot!
This has actually been discredited in recent years.
It’s not wrong in the strictest sense, but the macronutrient makeup of the caloric energy has a ton of bearing on how your body processes it (or doesn’t).
The data seems to show that insulin sensitive (healthy) people can lose weight in a simple calorie deficit, but insulin resistant (sick) people can’t. In order to lose weight, these people need to specifically cut carbs and get their body’s insulin response back in order.
In other words the simple, common sense approach that works for you actually won’t work for the fat, sick, unhappy, diabetic people you’re disgusted by.
The best books on this are Brain Energy and Why We Get Sick
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Sick people can lose weight eating as much cheese and meat as they want as long as they don’t eat carbs… in ketosis your body literally pisses out the excess energy as ketones instead of putting it on your body as fat but go off king
And to your point about willpower… not counting anything, just eating as much as you want to when you’re hungry (as long as it’s not carbs) is much less taxing on the willpower so it’s easier to stick to
Supplement your strongly held opinions with an actual book or two on metabolism, that’s all I’m saying