The science denying is such shite. They try to say you can eat a couple extra cookies a day or drink a little too much soda and get to 500 lbs via just a little to much every day. Impossible. Yes, if you ate an extra 500 calories a day that's not too hard to get to, and virtually everyone does that occassionally And let's ignore that non-fats also under-eat occassionally too so that balances out. Gained weight has to be sustained. So if you ate 500 extra calories every day you'd gain up to the level that was in equilibrium then you wouldn't gain any more unless you ate beyond that.  500 calories extra is roughly 20 lbs of sustained extra body weight. Sure, metabolisms differ and all that so you could pitch me 25, 30 lbs overweight from accidental over eating. (Thats all weight that would go away if you just stopped doing that too, no diet needed. Sure a diet is quicker but it's not necessary to get to equilibrium). You're not getting to 50 lbs overweight, let alone hundreds of pounds overweight because of an extra soda and cookie a day. Impossible. Fatties all know this. They just look you in the face and lie. "I'm severely obese because of an extra soda and cookie some days, that's all!" Sure, tubby. And Enron went tits up because they stalked the bathrooms with name brand soap instead of generic. That's all they did wrong!