Is choosing to eat less really analogous to choosing to be able to breathe without oxygen?
That the person who did it has their own Wikipedia page makes me think it is probably harder.
Edit:maybe I was thinking to complicated in this reply. The analogy is: you have two different things which can be achieved through doing a specific thing, but doing this thing is hard in both cases so using the word 'just' is not appropriate which is easier to see in the example.