This is not "weird" but may be weird to some. I'm going to let you in on the most obvious way which is used by MOST animals, as low as arthropods to lose weight

This is not "weird" but may be weird to some. I'm going to let you in on the most obvious way which is used by MOST animals, as low as arthropods to lose weight... and that is "not eating" a.k.a. fasting. Other animals do it out of real scarcity during various times. We have evolved for scarcity, so we store fat for when food is not available. (Un)fortunately, there has been no food scarcity most people in developed nations for decades on end, even centuries... hence the obesity problem. The lack of food scarcity for longer times has happened before in various cultures in various parts of the world. Therefore, all of them had introduced ritualistic fasting into their culture. The current western culture (which is also prevalent in most of the westernized world) is based on selling, so they have only ever sold eating something else to lose weight... which is not the real solution. Lately, selling apps, books and other content at scale became profitable so we have seen some rise in fasting but it is still drowned out by other highly profitable non solutions... like pointless physical labor (a.k.a. "working out" or "exercise") or complicated and mostly pointless dietary restrictions (a.k.a. "diets"). I can point to some resources to get you started with fasting: - Book: Complete Guide To Fasting by Jason Fung - YouTube Channel: The Fasting Fatman: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFastingFatman https://www.youtube.com/c/TheFastingFatman - YouTube Channel: Snake Diet: https://www.youtube.com/c/SnakeDiet https://www.youtube.com/c/SnakeDiet - Forum: Reddit's r/fasting: https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/wiki/index https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/wiki/index