You couldn't design a better society than the modern US to cause all this shit. There's a reason everyone from overseas who travels here puts on weight. I have

You couldn't design a better society than the modern US to cause all this shit. There's a reason everyone from overseas who travels here puts on weight. I have to be fastidious to the point of obsession to not gain. Intermittent fasting and the like don't circumvent the bare fact that you need to eat fewer calories than you burn; they're clever "hacks" and in fact make my binge-eating habit worse. It's so goddamn irritating. I actually can pretty accurately estimate the calories I eat at, eg, a restaurant, but I have to do it all the time. I can't use food as an emotional release or social lubricant. I grew up without being taught to manage my emotions, so I ate them, which is how I got to be 5'7" and >200# in the first place.