Some of this article is scientifically incorrect/dubious, but I had to laugh at this portion.

To maintain your new weight, you have to fight evolution. You have to fight biology. You have to fight your brain. You have to fight your metabolism.

So what? Is something worth doing or not?

I lost ~25% of my body weight and have kept it off for five years now. Was it easy? Not all of it. Am I glad? Hell yes. Oh indeed hell yes.

My knees went from hurting every day to not hurting ever. Such a huge, unspeakably large improvement in my life.

I walked nine miles yesterday with a pack, without walking that far in a long time. So no training up at all. I just did it. I couldn’t have done that when I was fat. Not in any way. I would probably have literally died (given how much I overheated being fat) or at least wished I were dead.

And no, my set weight point is not small. Judging by family, sibling and all else, it’s probably around 230-280 (assuming this article is correct). Instead I weigh now around 150.

Fighting evolution, biology, my brain, and metabolism?

Shit, fought tougher things than that my whole life. Why stop now?

I eat about 1,200 – 1,400 calories a day now. Every day except Saturday. And that’s not much.

But it’s so much better than the alternative — knees too far into weight-related deterioration to walk. Having my feet fall off at 50 due to diabetes (or getting diabetes at all). And being generally just unable to do the things I want to do.

If you’re fat, maybe it’s not your choice. But I do indeed believe that you as an individual had something to do with it.

No one stuffed that food into your face but you.

I prove that every day.

And this part made me laugh, too.

Although this study is always referred to as a starvation or semi-starvation study, I think of it as a diet study, because the men were allowed nearly 1,600 calories per day.

Amateurs. I eat less than that every day. Of course, I have a naturally slow metabolism. But I don’t use that as an excuse for being fat as so many do.

And yep, I do measure it accurately. If I ate 2,000 calories a day I’d weight about 200+ pounds again quite quickly.

Weight loss comes down to, do you want it badly enough or not? If not, don’t attempt to improve your life or you will fail.

Probably better to do nothing as this very typical-of-the-genre article counsels — aka, the American Way.