I'll provide another data point. While I too lost that much weight by eating one meal a day that was just the extra weight I got due to the combo of covid trapped in side and new child. But once I got back to my "normal" 20kg overweight by BMI I fundamentally cannot lose this weight. I eat one meal a day. Except Fridays where I have a take out meal. I don't drink. Because I can't due to medication. I have 2 sodas max a week. Doesn't matter still nearly obese. I have been this way since I got a car. There's something about walking and taking the bus that I can't emulate through going to the gym.

Right now I'm taking the extreme tactic of just not eating foods 3 days out of the week and that's working. Slowly. But no one who eats as healthy as me should have to do this. I show people my meals. I prepare them myself. I don't make fried foods. My meals are not low carb, but it's not like I eat pasta every day. I show professionals my meals. No one can say there's anything wrong with them.

The bizarre part is that at nearly 40 my medical stats are perfect. It makes doctors not bother me too much about my weight. People would kill for the kind of resting heart rate, cholesterol, etc I have at my age. This is just where my body likes to be if I'm not gonna walk 2 or 3 hours a day.

I'm not saying I'm like most people because i definitely have family who say they don't drink they just have a glass of wine or family members who complain that I only keep water in the house while lamenting they only ever seem to gain weight, but for some people weight loss is not so simple. If I have to skip eating all together every other day to lose a pound a week, something is strange.