Nowhere in my entire post did I ever say that, nor allude to that. That is a strawman of the highest order. (A person in a coma? REALLY!? Ugh. A person in a coma is in a TOTALLY different state than one not in one. You are literally comparing apples to orange trees there.)
I was responding to the completely assinine and ridiculous broad-brush claim that "it is easier to lose weight, than to gain weight." The entire premise of my post was predicated on the fact that everyone's body and body chemistry is different. For some people, it is incredibly difficult to gain weight, but very easy to keep it off. For others, it si very easy to gain weight, but incredibly difficult to lose it. How in the world this point was lost in translation, is beyond me.
Another strawman. Nowhere in my post did I make the claim that "eating doesn't require energy." That is a ridiculous claim that I never made.
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BTW. No. You most certainly do NOT "burn more calories when you eat." Yes, eating does require energy. But eating itself does not, in fact, "burn more calories." There are a few foods out there that would burn more calories by eating it. But only a few. And if you were to eat only those foods, guess what: You would begin to starve quite rapidly within a few days.
And in fact, your claim makes no logical sense. The entire point of eating is to RESTORE energy. Not burn MORE energy.
What I think you just did here, was to confuse "metabolism" with "eating less." What happens when you cut your caloric intake as well as vital nutrients, your metabolism would drop. Your body would go into "preserve as much fat as possible" mode for a lean time. So someone with the intent to lose weight, should not necessarily just "stop eating." Or even necessarily to "eat less." Rather, they should eat more high-energy, primary foods such as fruits and vegetables. Especially vegetables. Eat less per meal, and eat more often throughout the day. This would preserve your metabolic rate at a higher level.
Someone who is morbidly obese, eats a HELL of a lot of food. And very bad foods. They also may be predisposed to having a very low metabolism. And they probably most likely have Prader-Willi syndrome, where they cannot feel "full." Most people have a trigger in their brain that can detect when their stomach is just beginning to stretch out like a water balloon. The morbidly obese do not have such a trigger. Therefore, they cannot tell that they have eaten enough. It's kind of like a paralyzed person not being able to feel a pin poking their toe. Or like unplugging a piece of electronics from a power source. That, in itself, most certainly is a disability.
The reason why such a person goes for really bad foods, is because they ARE high-calorie foods. They are full of fats and sugars. They naturally feel the need to eat those foods, because they are always feeling hungry all the time. It is the brain's natural reaction to attempt to prevent starvation, because it feels like they are hungry.
Those foods certainly pack in a lot of calories. The simple act of eating those foods, does not burn more energy. That's why they gain so much weight so easily.
Now, had you actually READ my post, you would realize that I stuck a little personal anecdote in there. A comparison between myself, and a good friend. I was illustrating the point that people are different. Individual humans are very, very different from one another. The point being, my friend would have to expend a ton of effort to gain 5 - 10 pounds. He has a VERY HIGH metabolism. Whereas, I eat a few slices of pizza, I gain several pounds of fat. I have a much lower metabolism. I would have to expend a ton of effort to LOSE weight.
You are taking up only one side of the story, and using that as a narrative of how every single human being on the planet works. You are wrong. You are dead wrong. Some people have darker skin than others. Some people have blue eyes, some have green. Some have blond hair, some red.
Some people have high metabolism, some people do not. Some people have acid reflux issues where a cup of coffee makes them sick; some people can eat a dozen habanero peppers with vinegar without the slightest effect. Each individual human body can treat foods vastly differently. As differently as there are different colored skin tones, hair, and eyes. As different as your fingerprints are from someone else's. So you cannot sit here in all seriousness and make the ridiculous claim "putting on weight takes a lot more work than losing it." For some people, that may be true like my good friend I gave an example of. For others, it is utterly false.
See my monologue above.
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(BTW, I weighed 310 pounds at my heaviest. Again, to illustrate your ridiculous notion of broad-brush-painting, my 310 pounds was able to scale a mountain up and back. I was able to swim a half dozen laps in an Olympic sized swimming pool. I was able to jog 5+ miles at a time. I probably did have a bit of a gut, but I was (am, but at a lower weight now) healthy as an ox. A weight of a person means about as much as a batting average for a baseball player: Not a whole lot. Especially when you take into consideration height, bone density, water percentage, fat percentage, etc.)
) but it seems to me that -if it's a self-diagnosis based on propensity to gain weight then it'd be sensible to get it properly checked out just in case. That way you'll know.
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