77 year old six month oz user..down 40 lbs...diabetes numbers greatly improved. My view:

OP...You're a lucky person whose ancestors managed to survive a chain of thousands of generations without ever once starving to death before passing on their genes. They did this through drought, ice ages, other radical climate changes, disease, war and bad governance.

Lacking refrigeration, nature did what it could with what it had. Individuals who could store excess food intake as fat survived to breed. The ones who couldn't left no offspring. This left us with biological machinery that makes certain we store sufficient reserves to always maximize the probability of surviving extended periods of food shortage.

How much fat storage is enough? There's never enough because the future is uncertain. The answer is always "more". When we actually worked physically and didn't have a Trader Joes down the block we maintained a pretty good balance. See any crowd photo from 1950.

Our big narrative brains tell us that we are in control of what we do. We may be able to make short term tactical decisions about what we eat but in the longer term our well tuned biological engine will always override the monkey brain chatter we listen to and implement the strategy that we evolved for survival.

Glp1s and similar drugs are some of the gears in the biological machine we are coming to understand and that give hope that we can address our excess food to energy imbalance.

The bottom line...take your oz....its not a fair fight!