But it is.

It’s because people who ‘try’ their whole lives yo-yo diet or crash diet and that’s

1) unsustainable 2) extremely likely to result in more long term weight gain 3) very unhealthy for your body to constantly be fluctuating in weight so rapidly

If you are eating right (let me be very clear here, right doesn’t mean whole 30 or some vegan diet: it means calories within the means to not add or lose weight which is called maintenance) you are not going to fluctuate in weight very much.

The majority of people in America are overweight because they lack basic understanding of nutrition, don’t exercise enough (still you cannot outwork a bad diet), self-control thus overeat or some permutation of all three.

It’s straight up a bold face lie to say that the majority of people have hormonal problems otherwise we would have a national crisis on our hands with something that we should drop our jobs for right now and study because our water or air or food is heavily impacting our hormones to cause every single person on earth to gain weight.

If losing and maintaining a healthy weight was easy, we would have put it into a pill already.

Not to mention you don’t need to be in a caloric deficit your whole life. Hell you could even be 15% BF and maintain that for 40+ years.

Most people adopt those fad diets and realize how much they hate it because it’s so restrictive.

The main goal of a good and healthy caloric intake is to basically eat the right foods you want to eat within the portion that allows you to maintain.

It’s pretty simple if you look at all the diets today - keto - intermittent fasting - vegan/ vegetarian - whole 30 - carnivore

It’s all an aim to put guard rails on your diet by making some foods ‘off limits’. CICO literally calorie restriction by cutting out entire groups of food.

It’s not sustainable because everyone eventually runs out of will power and wants a donut.

The key is, track your caloric intake. Micro-adjust to get to a healthy weight. Maintain.

You should be able to eat the foods you wanna eat the rest of your life on a good diet, just less of them and you need to find foods that satiate you personally well to counteract overeating.