Its not that simple. Its a good starting point for weight loss, but there's many contributing factors that can affect how one's body retains calories. Some people are lucky and have all of those contributing factors even out to where all that's left is a simple calories in/calories out equation, some are even luckier and just burn excess calories with no effort and never meaningfully gain weight, but some will fight hard reducing calories and increasing activity while seeing minimal improvement and end up extremely frustrated and burnt out because it isn't that simple.

This isn’t true, fyi. Different people have different bodies.

All causes of death are exacerbated by obesity. Including flu and COVID.

How about this: Almost every human in the waiting room is fat excepting me and the truly elderly. There are rare exceptions, but fatties are the rule. Blunt enough?

Wasn't trying to be too blunt, but this as well: I have rarely seen a fit adult in a foot cast. The only exception to fat people in casts are kids who are obviously athletes. Gravity is real.

Old preacher man in South Chicago was bullshitting with me while I installed his satellite dish:

"Shalafi, let me ask you somethin'. You know the saying, 'little old man' or 'little old lady'? Why you think that is? Put another way, you ever know a man or woman in their 80s that was exceptionally tall or fat? Why you think that is?"

This wasn't a lead-up to "god made us this way" or some moralistic horseshit, but it was a great conversation and much food for thought. He made me coffee and served me cookies. Wish I could visit him again.