Fat people regularly say things like,"it's your genetics" "you have a fast metabolism, you're so lucky" and you're bringing up stuff like metabolism. What else is it going to read like?
I have no idea why you keep bringing up what a bunch of copers say, when it has nothing to do with what I am arguing.
Saying CICO's all there is to it, is like asking for good business advice and being told "lol, spend less than you make" it may sound like a witty soundbite, but it's pretty fucking dumb way to simplify the problem.
The problem with this rationale is you can just reductively apply it to anything until everything can be justified as being non-easy. Why ought we not just claim reading a book isn't easy, too - after all, you can understand why people rarely do it: many people are too depressed, anxious, incurious, genetically predisposed to laziness, have an attention-deficit, etc. When are things easy and when are things hard? If you look at the individual, you can easily find rationalizations for why it isn't easy. At some point you have to pick the starting point up by its bootstraps if you want to make sense of a world that considers that there exists 'easy' things and 'hard' things. I pick it up at what is biologically feasible for the average person to do with what the average person considers minimal effort. Reading a book is easy. Cutting 500 calories per day and not engorging yourself on food is mechanistically easy.
For a depressed person or a person who is not mentally resilient (read: mental resilience is not conscious force of will, it's a predisposition for the lack of ability to handle psychological stress), then losing weight could be hard. But is it hard to lose weight? No. You can separate the individual's sense of psychological difficulty with it to the biological and mechanistic simplicity that human beings have to using up excess energy. The danger in relying on the individual, is that you rob him of the ability to discover how easy losing weight can be - which is often the case with people who are able to lose weight, but never thought they could.
The metabolism thing is a non-starter, IMO. Only in very extreme cases does metabolism affect the ability to lose weight.
Easy and hard are subjective and relative terms, it's why i mentioned statistics in the first place.
People at large are capable of losing weight, but have a hard time keeping the weight off.
This tells you what? This tells you that beyond CICO, people don't know how to handle the problem in the long term: Having a more active life style, don't use food as an anti depressant, learn to portion control, beware of hidden calories (soft drinks, alcohol etc) and so on and so forth.
It's true that obesity is mostly a problem in a person's mind, but that is why the way to combat it isn't just to go "CICO, lol it's easy!".
Insisting that something is "easy" is really a pointless endeavor, because what's easy for one person, it may not be for the next.
As for the metabolism thing: It's about keeping the weight off, not about losing it.
If you're fat, you very likely have an extremely slow metabolism in the first place, since you ingurgitate so many excess calories on the daily.
Again i'm not arguing about two people having two different metabolisms, i'm saying the same person has a changing metabolism THROUGH the diet.
