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How does "burning more calories than you consume" not result in weight loss for most people, lmao?

Because your metabolism changes. If you ate 700 calories per day it would be harder for you to lose weight than if you ate 1400 and worked out.

You’d still be eating less, but retaining more weight. Why? Because your metabolism slows down significantly if you don’t fuel it, and that makes it harder to lose weight, not easier.

Most things in life are not binary, and are affected by more than just a single choice.

Yeah. So that's why working out is the solution lol. How is this controversial?

Because working out, alone, is not the solution. You could work out all day and still not lose a pound. Plenty of studies have shown this.

Moreover, have you ever tried to work out at 450 lbs? No? It is an immense effort, often literally impossible for most people at that weight, and the best they can manage is a walk around the block before their cardio can’t keep up.

What then?

See above, where I reminded people (which includes you) that things are rarely binary.

How do people not realize that the digestive system is dynamic and that as you change the calories in (and the type of calories) that the body changes the out.

You can't outrun thermodynamics. But your body will change its efficiency.

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