This article has all the hallmarks of poor science:
1) very small study size
2) very short study period
3) self reported consumption
4) marginal p-values
5) highly biased first author.
For those people, I think it's very nice that you had a good experience dieting. Your story isn't science however, and the rest of us aren't going to learn anything generalizable from it. Perhaps you should be posting to a reddit support group?
I'm don't know if he's biased or just right. I'm happy to hear a refutation of his arguments.
For those unfamiliar, here's the talk the probably gave rise his noteriety: https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM. It's long, but it's interesting.
I did not know this. Could you share the papers you're talking about?
read the paper carefully.