Sorry - didn't mean to offend. I know unsolicited advice on the topic is unwelcome, and I don't exactly mean that I think I can solve your problems. More like

Sorry - didn't mean to offend. I know unsolicited advice on the topic is unwelcome, and I don't exactly mean that I think I can solve your problems. More like, you seem frustrated by simple explanations, and I wanted to point you to the resource that I think does the best job of explaining why you are right -- things are complicated. I know Joel Greene comes off as a nut, and I don't usually recommend him for that reason. But you could also hardly ask for more mechanistic detail and science than he goes into. Seemed something you might be interested in. My bad if it's not. If you'd rather see the bibliography without the boomer, here's what's directly relevant to what you were writing about - one of the (several) mechanisms for weight regain and why losing weight is so much more difficult the second time around: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(23)00080-3 https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdfExtended/S1550-4131(... (TLDR: Control of hunger by the hypothalmus responds to dieting by becoming more aggressive, and it stays that way after the diet stops.) It's not in your head and it's not a character flaw. Purely physiologically speaking, naive, restrictive dieting really does become much harder, if not impossible, the more you do it.