I agree with you. I am not young but also not obese. However I did try to lose those last 6-7 kilos for some time. I went through phases where I was trying vari

I agree with you. I am not young but also not obese. However I did try to lose those last 6-7 kilos for some time. I went through phases where I was trying various things ranging from normal healthy eating to weird stuff (yeah, I now consider them as such) such as low carb, or fasting (note: this can be good for concentration, but not for weight loss) or whatever. I was also going to the gym and doing various random, but tiring things. The result is that I maintained a more or less stable weight (aside from some temporary fluctuations), and never permanently lost those extra kilos. Then I started to take sessions with some kinesiologist. Not sure exactly why, but without ever thinking what I eat (still I eat healthy, but there is pizza, alcohol etc), I gained muscle and lost weight. I welcome this change with humility, but I can't claim that I understand it. The pattern that I see is that there are plenty of exercises that seem easy, with low repetitions, but they seem to challenge the muscles in complicated ways using simple tools (mostly elastic bands and equilibrium tables). It is way more thorough than the crap I was doing alone at the gym and it does seem to affect my appetite. So yeah... maybe good quality exercise is the key, net necessarily a military camp. Edit: typos