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Significant biological variation is real, but very unlikely to mark the different between obese and healthy weight. It’s an enormous divide between those two c

Significant biological variation is real, but very unlikely to mark the different between obese and healthy weight. It’s an enormous divide between those two categories, and we have about a thousand behavioral contributors — mant of them social and difficult to escape —- that plainly play a bigger role than biological variation. If you can’t manage to lose those last 20 pounds, it might be some underlying metabolism or gut difference. If it’s 59 or 100 pounds, then there’s almost certainly something else at play and an honest diet and activity survey are very likely to raise concerns.

jjeaff 4y ago
I think anyone can do it, barring some serious medical reasons. But my point is, for some it is very easy, others not so much. I say this as someone who could drop 30 lbs easily with diet and exercise when I was younger, but now find it much more difficult. And the variation can amount to quite a bit. All it takes is time. An excess 100 calories a day adds up to 10 excess lbs in a year. 5 years down the road and you are 50 lbs overweight.