Listen dude, I generally agree with what you're trying to say. I have a hormonal wife, who I swear eats less than 900 calories a day, and she's premenopausal. I know plenty of people that bust ass and can't lose weight. But you're so absurdly trying to mock the "fat is a choice" people, while ignoring the fact that for MANY PEOPLE, being fat IS their choice. And it's illustrated by all the people on this thread saying they made adjustments and lost weight. Lots of people don't have hormonal issues, medical issues, medication related issues, they just have shitty access to healthy food, or they make bad fucking choices.
You mock the absolutists that say Fat is a Choice, while you turn around and insist being fat is NOT a choice. Despite all evidence to the contrary for MANY people, including posters on this thread that are/were fat by their own fucking choices. You're doing the same thing you're attempting to malign them of doing. For a massive chunk of society, being fat is a choice. And for a massive chunk of society, it's not really a fucking choice for a VARIETY of reasons, like attempted to say earlier.
I'm 6'3". In High School, I was overweight and sedentary and we were poor and had access to shitty food. In college I started running, and I got down to 170 at my lowest, from about 220-230. After college I was consistently around 200 for awhile, then I started doing Crossfit, and got up to 220 of mostly muscle, but still a belly. Then I had a kid, quit crossfit, ballooned up to 240. Then I got a peloton, reduced my drinking, and got down to 205, while doing keto and loosely counting calories. Then I started drinking more again, worked out less diligently, and now I'm back to around 215-220. Except now I'm on Keto and and the Peloton, and counting calories, and guess what, it's not working the same way at all, and my guess is because this time around I'm fucking 45 years old. If I want to make a dent, I'm going to have to make some new fucking choices, which probably amount to almost quitting alcohol and adding more weight training into things. But those are choices. Maybe ones I won't make, who knows. But choice plays into it, for MANY people. Not all. But Many.