The BIGGEST Reason Obese People CAN'T Lose Weight... | Johann Hari 

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Started as 300 lbs. Over the years I dropped to 250 ... Then I woke up to me lying to myself. 6 months later 230 and working on getting to the next goal of 200! 😊

You have to start thinking differently about food and your lifestyle. It's not a diet - it's a forever life change.

I was sedentary for 6 years after retirement, bought some weights and started exercising 3 times a week, no diet changes at all, lost about 13kg, belt size down to last hole and still loose so I bought a new belt, strength up, feeling good at 69 years old.

All addiction is about comfort and the need to stop the pain we feel as humans.

Don't use the word DIET. It's lifestyle change period. It will take dedication and hard work. Started in Jan and I am doing just fine with IMF. I simply do not eat crap anymore.

I am one of those people who has lost 60+kgs over 4-5 years and to this day have kept it off even now after 8 years! I have cracked the code to losing weight for myself and keeping it off! No diet as such but dedication to the cause helped long term as everything needs to be sustainable!!!!! Love your work. Have to say, the general information out there does not help and only adds to the confusion to something so simple as eating simple, seasonal and cooking for yourself!!!!

The diet doesnt end when you reach your goal weight. It just changes. You need to eat no more than what maintains your weight. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to watch what you eat for the rest of your life.

I've lost 150lbs with keto/low carb and walking. This is my 5th year of maintaining that loss. I still walk and watch carbs. Discipline, an active lifestyle, and consistency are key. Most diets will work if you stick with them and excercise.

A diet is what you consume, everyday. Always. What you eat regularly is Your diet. As soon as people understand that you always have a diet and ‘going on a diet’ is the wrong way to look at food and their bodies, the sooner people will be healthier.

If the set point theory really were valid, then we should have always had pervasive obesity problems. Yet, until processed foods laden with sugars, refined sugars, and seed oils became a bulk of our diet, obesity was a rarity - even a rarity among the very rich who could afford an abundance of calories. Just look at old photos of the public prior to the mid 70s or the data concerning obesity rates during that time. This points to the quality of foods subverting our natural appetite, thus inciting us to eat more calories than we would if the food wasn't as highly refined and hyperpalatable.

Our lives are NOT more stressful in the first world. Those of us fortunate enough to be in the first world have access to comforts in terms of food abundance, shelter, clean water, and freedom from threats of constant war that were unimagined by our forebearers. Our forebearers lived lives that were brutal and short. We need to keep this in mind.

Wut? The obesity epidemic started when food companies started to aggressively market sugar and putting it into everything we eat and drink. We were turned into sugar addicts with that first bowl of Frosted Flakes.

This is incredibly informational. I am on ozempic for type II diabetes but before that I’ve struggled my entire reproductive life with PCOS which in most cases also causes insulin resistance. This goes beyond dieting and comfort eating etc. it’s about it being a hormonal and metabolic illness. Each person is an individual with individual healthcare needs. What we need to do is have a great deal more empathy for anyone struggling with visible and invisible health concerns. Stopping our judgement and start / continue having good helpful informational discussions like this one.

Something I noticed said here multiple times but I never hear these people actually touch on is the psychology of the terminology we use. To go "on a diet" is an inherently temporary thing. If you want long term change you have to make long term changes. Instead of going on a diet you change your diet. When someone says they are "on a diet" they are essentially saying "I'm going to do this for a short time until I get the results I want and then I can stop" and this is exactly where yoyo dieting comes from. I cut my calories, lose 20lb, feel better, start eating more and put on 30lb. And then I blame ti diet and "diet culture". But if I instead change my diet (ie change how AND what I am going to eat for the rest of my life) then this can be sustaining. We have to stop lying to ourselves and trying to fool ourselves with buzz words and tricky language and just be blunt and honest. "If I keep eating this it's going to kill me"

I went to a countryside health retreat about 12 years ago. We were NOT allowed any tech (mobiles, laptops etc were taken off us) and no TVs, newspapers were present or allowed - all we were told to do was walk (if we chose to) in nature; drink as much herbal tea and water as we wanted all day, read books, chat to other guests, eat our ONE healthy meal around 5pm and go to bed at 9pm. Doing this, I lost 9lbs in 5 days!!! Clearly demonstrates how the media, tech, stress, social media and eating when we aren’t actually hungry builds up our weight. Changed my life.

If the drugs lowered the "set point" wouldn't you expect people to maintain their weight after they stop with the injections? Imho ozempic only forces the body into starvation and that's it. It's a bit like a real famine, once the body can eat again it will return to the "set point"

I always find it strange when people say we're living more stressful lives. Or is it that we've lost a lot of coping skills? Was it really less stressful in the olden days (before the "magical" 1950's) before medical breakthroughs, multiple births, higher infant mortality, The depression, 2 world wars, etc. etc. My grandma lived in the days before disposable tissues and washing machines and had to wash grandpa's handkerchiefs by hand! She said it was really disgusting, lol!

Talking about comforting foods, that is why losing weight is not only physical but psychological. I don’t care how many drugs you take or surgeries you get, until the reason why is addressed and relearned behavior is implemented sustainable weight loss is not possible. Our comfort from food cannot be replaced with a drug or surgery.

Your guest is complicating things and justifying weight gain. The Bottom line is that we eat a lot of processed food, carbohydrates and sugar. Reduce that and eat lots whole food as nature intended as a lifestyle you'll see the difference

Because it’s not as much about “calories in, calories out” as it is what kind of calories you put in your mouth. But doesn’t help that we’ve been generally lied to about the food pyramid and what is healthy for decades now.

Yes and micro biome also plays a huge role in mood and mental health

If you think diet is all about willpower, therein lies the issue.

The secret is to not "diet" but just eat less (i.e. do it gradually and over a long period of time instead of doing something extreme for a short period of time). It's really not that complicated, it just requires patience, something that is normally discouraged in our society of wanting everything immediately.

Homeostasis is both the best thing and the worst thing. People worry about the side effects of weight lot medication, but the dangers of morbid obesity as we get older, are huge. Yes, I'm on Mounjaro.

In my opinion, the biggest reasons diets fail is because the very notion of a diet is something that will come to an end. If you then go back to how things were before the diet then you will go back to where you were, it's not rocket science. If you want to lose weight permanently, then you need to make changes to your lifestyle/diet that last forever and this is the first and most important thing that needs to happen. When you are ready to commit to living differently then you can begin. You are not on a diet, you have changed your lifestyle to a better one. Understanding the need to control blood sugar levels and how to do that through learning how different types of food is digested is critical. Ultra processed food, added sugar, high GI carbohydrates have to go. Instead eating the right mix of fat, protein, low GI carbs combined with increased activity and an intermittent fasting period is what works. Nothing to eat after 6pm and breakfast at 8am gives a 14 hour period during the latter part of which the body will burn fat for its energy needs. Around 3 am your body increases this burning to raise your blood sugar to give you energy to get you ready for the day ahead. Who knew it was so easy to lose weight while you sleep!

All the environmental aspects we have today is stressful but surely starvation and not having enough food would be way more stressful. Great video.

People get anxiety and the cortisol goes up and it drives up the appetite 😢. Society needs to change and they need to stop adding sugar to meat and make vegetables cheaper.

I think you said you used Ozempic. I would feel dull too. I was obsessed and I am now keto carnivore and lost weight naturally. I finally have control over what I eat and all my meds are gone as well as my feeling of dullness. Finally food does not rule my life and think this is the difference between a drug induced weight loss and a weight loss caused by eating the right healthy whole foods.

It's profoundly disturbing that doctors and scientists are pushing this without asking why is obesity increasing when fifty years ago almost no one was fat! It's what people eat and how much people eat!!

I may be one of the few around here that sees in this guy a valid point he is making. We recommend diet and exercise unrelenteslly to these people but it's just not working, as he said, we have tried that for 40 years. On the other hand, he is wrong about something, I think he is wrong in thinking that the main problem is a weight set by biology, I think this is true at some level, maybe 30-40% percent, and that may be different from individual to individual. But this kind of falls apart if you think about who is obese. You look at the countries with most processed foods and there you have it. Of course that in America you have like 40% of the population obese, this is extreme compares to most other countries. Diet is way too complex and that's why is hell to follow. You cannot overestimate the importance of food, socially, psychologically...changing what, how and when to eat is so much more than it sounds. In extreme situations like this, with an epidemic of obesity I don't think a new drug out of the ordinary.

We made huge changes as a family a few years ago when my husband dealt with health issues stemming from obesity. I never liked sweets or fast food, so it was easy for me, but he used food as comfort, especially sweets. I'm not American, so I didn't grow up eating processed foods and desserts were only a thing in my family on special occasions. He grew up in Texas, where everything, everywhere is designed to make you crave fatty, sweet and processed food. He switched to eating like I am, which is only whole foods, lots of vegetables and grains, meat sparingly, fruits when the sweet taste bites, etc. He also worked hard to make excersize his new stress coping mechanism. 2 years later, he lost 100lbs and has about 20% body fat, which is a wonderful improvement and a healthy weight for a man in his 40s. I think the whole of Western culture needs to reject processed foods and embrace the low impact, regular exercise I grew up with. I grew up in rural France, BTW, so it's not like we don't love sweets and desserts, but we don't eat processed foods so much.

food companies are cheap. High fructose corn syrup is what's used, a lot more than sugar and it's WORSE than sugar, too

Brilliant part of the interview - by both parties.

you’re absolutely right about that dullness factor. Mounjaro kills your appetite. Suppresses it to a point where you have to make yourself eat and remind yourself to do so. And that was only at 7.5. It was ramping up from five so eating becomes a chore. Ozempic on the other hand, you feel so terrible that your brain has to consciously think of what and how much and how to prepare your food so that you don’t feel bad after eating it. It’s on these drugs. I can no longer freely. Enjoy without thinking of the consequences now that I’m on Ozempic. but before I literally had to just make myself eat. I’m an ex chef. I cook my own meals. I enjoy the hell out of food. Now it’s work.

The another reason for the increase of suicides after bariatric gastric surgery is because most of our serotonin is made in the gut so when you mess with that people get depressed.

There is definitely a set point. Mine now won't let me go below a much lower number than years ago. I can get within 1 1/2 pounds of a landmark goal and I can't get there. It's crazy. No matter what I do, I'm stuck. There is a set point and I will trick it and win. I've done it before.

I never took anything to loose weight (im already on medication for my JIA) and i honestly thought loosing weight will be this amazing thing and i actually went through this wierd faze of hating myself more. Im not sure if its because i was trying to come to grips of being this new version of myself. I finally came through it and felt amazing. I put weight back on due to steroids and currently am on my weightloss journey. And atleast know what to expect. I dont do diets its pointless but i realised sugar triggered my inflammation so thats mostly gone. A perfect excuse haha.

I recon we can comfort eat without overeating. Mindfully chew the food, experience the flavours and textures. I always feel more comforted after doing that, rather than stuffing my face (something I used to do a lot).

Why do people assume it needs to be on a diet. It’s food, healthy food. It’s not a diet, it’s what you eat. You don’t need a diet if you eat well. Why go on a diet for 3 months, then go back to the junk you eat before. Makes no sense. Eat well, that’s it. 😂 Not rocket science. And exercise is not exercise, it called life. You move and do things. There is no special exercise routine to do. Just get out and walk, run and be active in your daily life. Dieting and exercise plans are just marketing by companies to sell you shit.

i lost nearly 60 pounds doing high fat low carb keto. kept it off for nearly 6 years, then the shut down happened. never went back to a sad diet ..but gained back 20 pounds. went back on keto in january and can't move a pound. i don't eat a lot, i don't really comfort eat. my (new) doc at both of my visits has wanted to put me on ozempic. i'm very hesitant to use it.

Really interesting points of view.

Re the gastric band thing - I know of 2 people who had it and what they found depressing is the amount of loose skin they are left with if they r not able to access surgery to have it removed - not the loss of comfort eating

No diet! Lost 20kg in 5 months. I only changed what and when I eat. No starving, no deprivation.

I found dr Jamnadas whos a cardiologist on utube and his video " the fat lies"ive lost 40 lbs 2 years ago and in the process of getting the other 25 off.i haven't been ths thin since the 80s.

I lost 40 lbs on keto diet over about 8 months and kept up a kind of atkins after that for about a year. The thing is the more weight I lost the more I could move and be more active again and since I had missed feeling like I could move easily I took full advantage of that and started moving and biking and gardening and doing things that had me eating less frequently and able to burn off a lot of it when I did occasionally overeat

Gastric bands aren’t available anymore on nhs are they? Until a massive connection is made and addressed between your mental health and overeating, obesity will never be cured

Another thing nobody talks about are underlying health issues, Financial reasons depression side effects of drugs,could not lose weight, when contracted gum disease, early twenties,take care of your teeth!

He had some good points , but whether you try the drug or try a diet doesn't matter. You have to change the way you think and feel about food. If your on the drug are you going to take it for Life ??? How long do you continue to lose muscle if your a woman? I really dont know the answer, but i will work on getting my mind right to change for Life. I wish us all the best on this journey ❤

My neighbor had the gastric band. She was so lazy and let everyone do everything for her. Told the doctor what he wanted to hear. Got the band a week later went out on the lash and was found dead in her bed the next morning. She thought it was an instant cure, didn't think she had to put in any effort, ate cream buns etc and had a skin full of vodka while her body probably had the anaesthetic still rolling around her 30+ stone of tissue. I knew when she went into hospital for the procedure she wouldn't stick to any diet and probably burst the band. Didn't think about the possibility of alcohol on her stressed body killing her.

Also to add I think lifestyle has made a huge impact way more than set point theory. Calories in vs calories out is irrefutable Stress is higher as Steven quite rightly said impacts relationship with food and physiology Calories are more abundant than ever Our activity has dropped hugely So calories are still key but 2024 life is more of an uphill battle than any point in history. I’m not anti ozempic but if we go for this without considering lifestyle strategies we are missing out on a huge impact for health

Intermittent fasting has been the only thing that has helped me keep off weight. If I eat breakfast I will certainly gain weight the next day.

Makes sense!!❤

Eat mindfully, chew and savour each mouthful. My grandparents would put their knives and forks* down between mouthfuls (*yes - before it became normal to use a fork like a shovel!). Smaller plates are shown to work, too.

It's also worth exploring what constitutes dieting in these studies. So often these diets are way too extreme /restrictive for most people. The vast majority of people cannot and should not be dieting below 2000 calories and expecting that it could be sustainable.

I was prescribed Rybelus for my diabetes. I didn't know it helps you lose weight till now. I'm 5ft 2, 136lbs I don't think I need to lose weight. My doctor did not tell me anything about this pill. i am having problems with my pancreas. I am missing enzymes, vitamin deficiency, blood in stool, and colon inflammation. Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, tissue transglutaminase iga deficiency

this is whatis hard about quitting overeating/sugar and quitting alcohol you become healthier technically, you look better, you feel better physically but you are deprived of that source of comfort, pleasure and stress relief the apparent advice would just find another source of dopamine and endorphine, like fitness and physical activity I hate physical activity and I am too lazy, I hate hiking, I hate running, I never learnt to cycle or swim and at this stage of my life I am working 9 to 6 and I barely have time to my hobby I don't want to spend my evening at a gym and come home when it is 9PM and just go to bed maybe I would go to a gym if I wouldn't work, but then I wouldn't have money to pay for the gym

People cannot keep the weight off becuase of anxiety. Anxiety switches off the hunger and fullness cues that health people do feel....nobody talks about this. The rest is gaining weight, mainly women as over 35 they usually get Insuline resistance and thyroid problems, but these two are not the same problems. Willpower only works short term vs reduction of anxiety which will keep the weight off.

How does sugar addiction compare to other addictions?

So what is the solution..teach ourselves to consider the salad or lower calorie meal as our comfort food?

It seems like every episode is about Ozempic.

I was 235 pounds. I’m a PCOS and thyroid issue sufferer. I stayed at 235 for many years. That was my set point. My silly doctor decided to put me on a weight loss drug. It was a appetite suppressant. At night when it would wear off at 8 o’clock I was famished and ate everything in the world, my brain was telling me to eat eat eat. And I gained 30 pounds. My setpoint then became 255 pounds. I haven’t been able to get back to 235 without the use of weight loss injections. setpoint is a very very real thing. We all have it. That’s where our bodies want to be when we start with it. It’s usually a bad outcome more than good.

You get what you repeat! Quote from “Atomic Habits”

The fact that there is a large failure rate to diets, in the long term, doesn't mean diets don't work. It just means diets are difficult to adhere to, and those who are able to adhere to them in the long run have much to be proud of. We shouldn't just concede and then rely on a pharmaceutical savior because something is difficult. It would be like saying that most people who try to get into elite medical schools and law schools fail, so don't bother studying hard, and just cheat. If the dubious history of the pharmaceutical industry is any guide, this pharmaceutical savior is more than likely a demon in disguise with dangerous side effects - side effects that are not fully going to be realized until years later.

Going on a "diet" almost never works long term. Going on a lifestyle change is the way. First, you have to understand the difference between real food and manufactured food and why it matters. This is the way.

We should not ignore the systemic effects of the food industry, especially in the USA, where nutrition free corn is government subsidized, making it so cheap that food the industry can dump it in everything, instead of cane sugar, which is bad, but not as bad. But speaking of sugar, they put it in white bread One can try to avoid refined sugar, but sooner or later one will find that it has snuck into something that you are eating. And for some people it is like a drug, Once you eat a little, you crave more. That's the USA, where the food industry is under regulated and the corn industry is over subsidized. But gloably, where fast food chains pop up, obesity rates rise. And there are rooms full of chemists figuring out how to make snacks more addictive.

Its really not complicated tbh. Another problem we have nowadays is thar health is equated with looking like a fitness model. Just heing healthy isnt enough anymore.

It's the period after dinner. If you don't go to bed early, you stay up watching processed food commercials.

Set point for the win. My mom put me on diets the moment she adopted me at 2 years old, I kept yo- yo ing my life away. Healthy weight husband would start a diet with me and not make it to dinner. He’s vacillated maybe10 pounds by never dieting…

An ozempic expert!!!!!!!! Of course there is a choice but that choice is extremely difficult given the advertising propaganda. The solution to that is to control the advertising and /or balancing it with anti carb advertising similar to anti smoking.

fun fact: Ozempic has killed my sweet tooth. I’ve had a sweet tooth since I was born. I am 60 this year. And for the last 2 1/2 months haven’t craved sweets. Am I still eating carbs? Yes . Am I enjoying them? No.

When I start feeling hungry outside of a regular meal time window, I drink some water, get up and go for a quick walk, and then reassess. If I’m still hungry, I’ll go eat an apple and peanut butter or a banana. This keeps me from eating just because I’m bored or actually just thirsty.

I remember the feeling, I described it as empty, void, I lost 3 and a half stone Iin 12 months on high protein, low carbs, I just felt emotionally empty.

Put yourself in a calorie deficit and you will lose weight. Eat healthy while in that calorie deficit and you will feel pretty good while doing it. Continue to eat healthy, just at maintenance calories, and you will keep it off for as long as you want. It’s that easy, you just have to want it bad enough. It isn’t about will power, but want power. You have to want all the benefits of being healthy and lean more than any perceived benefit you think you get from eating junk. It’s a choice. The first month is the hardest as you detox off all the sugar and junk. Get past that and it gets a lot easier.

So what's the solution?

I agree about bariatric surgery. Two guys I knew seemed to just stop smiling after that surgery.

Context: it's soooo sooo hard and expensive to find clean food. I'm still convinced that processed food is a major factor

You can loose a lot of weight by going on Bear Grylls Island for 30 days!! On the diet discussion, Im inclined to think its increased carb proportion in meals after researching carnivore & keto diets effects. Cereals for brekkers now instead of 'going to work on an egg' like in the 70's!

This guy saying we born with a theoretical set weight before we are born Wtf lmao

The real epidemic isn't obesity, it's the lack of attention and affection. Much of our attention is centered around material aspects and loveless social media and there is no lack of food but a lack of connecting with others while eating. I, for one, am far less 'hungry' when l am eating a meal with my family or friends. A real sit down meal is far more satiating than a frantic bite on the go. No drug is as powerful as the presence of a loving soul sharing a meal with me. !!

It's starts as children. Parents have the responsibility to make sure their kids stay healthy. NO CHILD should be fat! That 100% on the parents.

I found this very interesting but having read about Johann Hari on Wikipedia I'm left feeling not sure what to believe :(

His point about diets is stupid. The whole “going on a diet” is the problem, it’s not just changing for a period it’s changing habits forever that you need to have long term weight loss. It’s the mental side which is the hardest, that’s true for me who is your classic yo-yo person

I think the missing piece is lifestyle and poisonous food, not a lack of a GLP1 inhibitor.

You can go on a diet and lose weight, but then you have to have a maintenance plan! Otherwise you just put the weight back on.

Just buy real unprocessed foods , chicken beef vegetables salad etc … stop eating bread pasta rice for every meal , stop drinking alcohol and fizzy drinks … you will loose weight . Its really not that hard

I was thinking maybe this video would be a twist in the tale, and that junk food satiates more . I think maybe it's easier to eat tasty food in small quantities.

A diet is a temporary solution to what is (usually) a permanent problem. Permanent results require permanent changes.

I was vegan/WFPB for 7 yrs and slowly gained weight, my drs didn't believe I ate that way because I am now morbidly obese. It became my joke when I would try some modification to that way of eating saying "let's see how much weight I gain eating it this way!" And gain weight I would. Went on keto for a month and have lost 12-15 lbs and feel so much better I am no longer bloated and my inflammation is gone, which is most likely where I lost the weight but it's a beginning anyway. I have cooked my foods from scratch all these years.

Not all tacos are shitty food Mr. Matthew Perry look alike. Of course, if you know how to properly make them

Obesity is a disease. Why?? I’ve seen it. Yes, most people give this disease to themselves. One can mess their hormones up so badly with years of bad eating habits and overindulgence that losing weight and keeping it off can be damn near impossible. This is what happened to me. Always slender. Had my children late and still loss the weight easily. I was always a sugar addict but also a gym rat so my weight was very steady. Once I stop going to the gym because I became such a busy mom in my 40s the weight just kept coming on. Nothing I use to do worked anymore. I could lose 10-12 pounds but I had to banish all carbs but then I would stall for a few days and then start to gain again. Whenever I did anything else the weight just wouldn’t budge at all. Eventually I needed to lose 60 pounds! It was impossible. Between insulin resistance and perimenopause, I was doomed. All this to say that I started taking GLP1s and my life has changed. I still go to the gym to strength train and walk 5 days a week but this time the weight is actually coming off. I watch what I eat but I don’t have to choke down dry chicken breast (I like the thighs with skin) and I can eat fruit and a sandwich everyday. I don’t have to count calories and I don’t have any desire to snack. I eat 2 meals a day. I couldn’t do this before. I swear my body wouldn’t let me.

Mmm, not sure. I lost 30 pounds simply by not eating sugar and any carbs (bread, chips, etc). Did that in 3 months without any exercise. Felt better, more energy and lost cravings for the bad stuff. Maybe I’m lucky.

I eat only real food. 1-ingredient groceries cooked/combined in my own kitchen. Two meals/day, no snacks. Exercise and weigh-lifting every day. No supplements. Guess what? I’m fat and healthy at 71 years old. Go figure.

We’re simply leading incredibly sedentary lives, stressful lives whilst practically force-fed excess sugar. I would argue office work, cars, the economy and majority of the processed foods are to blame. As you can see, it’s multi-factorial and it’s a false argument to state any singular factor is the leading reason why so many are overweight.

Calories are only one thing we get from food. There's other nutrients we need and don't get when starving ourselves skinny. Depression is inevitable. The idea that comfort eating prevents depression is nonsense. More likely they're interfering with the serotonin produced in their stomach. Our bodies continue to crave food until it has the nutrients it needs. It's why junk food doesn't satisfy hunger even though the calories are sufficient. They'd be better off trying to understand why obesity suddenly increased. Humans didn't become more greedy. Something changed. Something we don't fully understand yet. Time to study what's in our water supply.

I'm skeptical to what is being said here. A sugar calorie isn't the same as a fat or protein calorie, therefore your so called "theory of physics" makes no sense. You gain fat-weight easier by eating sugar, even though sugar has less calories. The problem is not the amount of calories people are eating, it's what KIND of calories. Also, ultra-processed foods and sugar severely affects gut bacteria, insulin production, auto-immune disease etc, which in turn has an impact on how your body processes food.

The effectiveness of my husband's seven year workout routine is subjective in my opinion. Despite exercising five days a week in the gym and two days at home, he has not been able to lose his belly fat completely. Though it is not hanging over his belt, his chest area still appears flabby. However, his legs are lean and muscular, while his arms are impressively strong. Unfortunately, he has not been able to achieve a six-pack yet, even though he follows a vegan diet, drinks plenty of water, and avoids eating after 7 PM. Notably, his parents are both obese.

Just googled this "expert", and have no interest in anything he has to say. Number one lesson of university (for me) was when reading scientific paper, first look at the author, what are his/her/their credentials, then look at who's financing the research. Then and only then can you asses real value of the publication and information provided. In the age when everyone can declare themselves an "expert" this has been very useful.

Johann reminds me a bit of the actor Edward Norton.

I’ve been 160 since college. When I hit 165-170, I drop the sugar and booze, up the running and weights and from the 5-10 pounds right away. Get a jump on it. Also I’m too cheap to buy bigger pants and it costs less to drink water instead of beer. 😂