Oy Vey... I'm not saying you're entirely wrong here; in fact, I'd agree with your premise. The issue is, that the entire idea behind consistent dieting and exe

Oy Vey... I'm not saying you're entirely wrong here; in fact, I'd agree with your premise. The issue is, that the entire idea behind consistent dieting and exercise is moving what you'd call the "set point"; but somehow you're railing against that idea in general without giving HOW to change the set point outside of consistent, mindful change. The general problem with food/caloric intake is that it takes time for your stomach to signal that it's full; so for many people - because most eat quickly - they're actually full well before they know it, which leads to over eating. Your body doesn't "know" its fat stores, it has no way of "remembering" what your current caloric intake/output is; it's a set of feedback mechanisms that tend to handle slow processes better than fast, and the only set-point "memory" that may be involved is the feedback response for the dynamic system sitting around the saddle-points of the equation modeling the process (which is a fancy way of saying any set-point is at best a representation of a representation of a dynamic multi-variate system). If I proscribed myself to what you're saying here; my "natural" weight gain of roughly 10 lbs per year (from 2007-2013) was because my "set point" is somewhere way, way north of 220lbs (since my weight over time didn't "hockey-stick" level off during any point before then); and once I leveled off it was because I "changed my set-point," which you never explained how to do. Or, based on empirical data, I changed my eating habits, reduced my caloric intake to something manageable for my current metabolic rate, and increased my regular exercise; thus creating a net caloric deficit to get myself to a healthy weight. Once at that healthy weight, maintaining a slower eating pace allowed me to recognize I was full before I was overfull - letting the natural feedback mechanisms actually work. TL;DR: You're using fancy new-speak to dress up the fact that a 2KCal per day diet doesn't meet everyone's caloric balance sheet needs and people need to be mindful of their own body's needs.