I did the same. I threw out a bunch of junk food one day. Food that was partially consumer. All gone. Never bought it again. I knew I was 'wasting' money by throwing away good food, but it was making me worse.

it is even worse than that. the energy constrained model suggests it is impossible to ever work off a pizza. you just simply burn fewer calories later to negate exercise, such as lowed BMR or less NEAT. As you lose weight, your constraint is lowered and any calories above it will produce weight gain regardless of exercise.

The constraint throws off all the calorie math in regard to exercise. You find that no amount of exercise helps at producing lasting weight loss even if the meter/app says you burned 700 or whatever, which is .2 lbs. If you do this for 10 days you should lose 2 pounds of fat , keeping diet constant, but you don't. Either you lose less or just water.

This is not enough to establish causality.

• Early risers. Nearly 8 in 10 participants eat breakfast every day, but while many observational studies show an association between breakfast eating and either weight loss or simply lower BMI, clinical studies haven’t found a causal connection8,9—and a 2016 study found that NWCR participants were more likely to be “morning types” and report better sleep quality and duration than control participants currently enrolled in a weight loss intervention.10 “I think increasingly we’ll find there’s a lot of reciprocal patterns,” Thomas says. “Having an early start to the day is connected to eating breakfast, which could help, and getting to the end of your day and feeling good about your choices could motivate you to continue your healthful choices and help you get to bed earlier.”

This can be explained by dieters skipping dinner or having early dinner and going to be hungry and hence hypoglycemic in the morning and craving food, hence early awakening and eating breakfast.

medically induced weight loss is really damn hard. vastly more drugs produce weight gain as a side effect compared to weight loss, and the few that do tend to be really dangerous or addictive. It took 90 years after the discovery of insulin, and ushering in the field of endocrinology, to develop Ozempic--the first in a class of non-stimulant and (mostly) safe weight loss drugs that work for a general population and produces substantial weight loss for most ppl who take it.

NO kidding. of course, ppl on an eating suppressing drug will spend less on food. but companies are not worried and have adapted by raising prices more than usual or cutting back portion sizes