alt Hacker NewsYes, that is what many of us are trying to tell you: you are just not suffering from the kind of food obsession that some of us experience (whether that is caused by mental issues, metabolic, environmental, whatever it might be). And the vast majority of significantly overweight and obese people have exactly this problem.
This is similar to how most people drink alcohol occasionally, maybe sometimes get drunk at a party and even enjoy it, would even be unhappy to have to significantly reduce their alcohol consumption (e.g. when taking some medication) - and yet have nothing similar to alcoholism, might go weeks without drinking without even noticing, and would never even consider having a drink before work.
I posted this elsewhere too but i'll add it here:
I've helped many people lose weight, become jacked, and go from underweight to a healthy weight. I regularly hear from overweight and obese people who come to me, “I’m genetically predisposed to being fat.” Yet after a few months, we often make significant progress.
Many of them have also tried “deficit dieting,” and it didn’t work for them. But when I looked more deeply into their methods, I found they had calculated their maintenance calories incorrectly.
They were running huge, unsustainable deficits. They weren’t doing any Zone 2 cardio, which is an easy way to boost maintenance calories, and most of them were largely sedentary.
Many times, their diet consisted mostly of packaged, processed foods, and they weren’t eating enough protein or healthy fats or vegetables.
Simply fixing these issues led to major transformations. I’ve yet to come across someone who is truly resistant to these changes.
I do not doubt existence of people who simply cannot sustain even a small deficit or people who have no control over their diet but i've among 1000s of people i worked on i never found even 1 such person.
I keep an open mind maybe i'll eventually find such person, so far i've not.