The question, though, is why we’re “eating so much” that we get grossly obese if we just let things go. 100 years ago, people didn’t count calories or limit portions, and obesity was rare. People just ate until they were full, and then stopped - and stayed thin.
That’s the real question - what happened to our internal “fullness” sensors. Something is broken, either in the food we eat, or in our bodies, or both, to screw up our internal calorie counter - and the solution to that is not calorie-counting or living in a permanent state of semi-starvation. The solution to that is fixing what’s broken so that we can eat the way most normal people eat - eat when we are hungry and stop when we are full.
