I feel that those who think that exercise is a solution for weightloss either have an absurdly good metabolic rate or have an unrealistic view of how much time

I feel that those who think that exercise is a solution for weightloss either have an absurdly good metabolic rate or have an unrealistic view of how much time people can devote to exercise. I had tried to lose some weight a few years ago and everything O tried had failed, including exercise. At one point, I purchased a digital scale and performed multiple measurements a day of my weight. They confirmed that additional exercise (e.g. walking a few miles) had negligible impact on my weight. Afterward, I decided to redesign my diet for weight loss. I was able to lose 50 lbs in roughly 3 months by that alone. The idea was that my body had an abundance of energy such that all I needed were nutrients to keep my body going and a certain volume in my stomach to trick it into signaling my brain that I was eating sufficiently. I ended up consuming a multivitamin pill, egg whites, tofu, brocolli and fruits each day for the better part of those 3 months. I calculated that doing that lowered my daily caloric intake 800 calories a day. Sadly, I ended up regaining about 30 of them after pressure from certain relatives to eat more got to the point where being fatter was preferable to having to deal with it. The entire time, I had been considered overweight to obese by my BMI so the pressure to eat was in no way because I had gone overboard, although I had come within 5 lbs of attaining a "healthy" BMI before I regained some of the weight. My mistake was switching to Soylent after deciding that I did not want to lose weight so quickly. The idea that I was not eating food triggered my relatives' "lets try to feed him" reaction. Lately, I have started to try doing this again by consuming a daily multivitamin pill, water, spinach, "beyond meat" fruits and a daily bag or two of popcorn (to clear the pantry). The popcorn will be eliminated as soon as I have finished the remaining supply, but even eating the popcorn, I am losing weight by doing this, although it is definitely not as fast as it would be had I not decided to finish off that popcorn. The first time that I lost weight, I had a relative who attended weight watchers. The people at weight watchers were horrified when told how quickly I managed to do it and talked about studies about the dangers of rapid weight loss. My feeling was that they did not want to lose a source of revenue and that being as fat was worse for me. In hindsight, I think that they would have been right had I been anywhere close to a healthy weight at the time as what should matter is the percentage of weight lost rather than the raw numbers. The closer that I approached a "healthy" weight, the slower my weight loss became and when I was within 5 pounds of it, I had started to feel somewhat light headed, which is when I decided to try lose by weight more slowly rather than force it through a large deficit in my daily caloric intake.