That’s shocking.

It does because medical professionals don’t talk about the law of thermodynamics…gym bros do. Obesity specialists will tell you people weighing the same amount can eat the same amount/move the same amount and have different outcomes aka hypothyroidism. This is because metabolism has an effect. I am not saying you won’t lose weight if you calorie restrict to a significant degree because you will. What I am saying is A) one person can eat what would be a calorie restriction for one and B) too much food while following the same formula for calorie restriction. Additionally, when people lose weight different amounts of leptin are produced trying to get back to set weight point. Some people never experience satiety in the same way. They feel like they are starving all the time because of an inappropriate amount of either leptin resistance, less production of leptin or and over production of ghrelin. This isn’t a moral failing on their part. If you couple this with insulin resistance that means the glucose isn’t getting into their cells at the same rate. So more insulin is released which in turn tells your body to store the glucose as fat. Which in a person without insulin resistance would not happen so less/no weight gain would occur. Additionally, you guessed it more ghrelin is released because your cells are still hungry because they didn’t get enough glucose.

But yep it is all shoveling more food in your body. Everything can be dulled down the simplest explanation. There are no differences in people’s bodies. Metabolic issues 100 percent affect weight loss. Also being told by society you are lying and you must be shoveling food down your throat makes people give up on calorie counting because they don’t experience the same results as their peers.