They're actually saying, "it takes a lot of work to lose weight." Yeah? Okay? That's how it works!!     I've mentioned this in another comment, but I have to disagree with you.  Hunger pangs aside, weight loss or remaining human-sized does not require any Herculean effort.  It's part of why I'm so frustrated with the current fatvironment (proliferation, acceptance, glorification!) that all it takes is to just not eat so fucking much, and the whole world is pretending it's impossible.  As many pointed out in the thread, Boogie could eat up to 2500 calories a day, with no exercise whatsoever, and still lose weight rapidly.  The fact that he's been given years to do so and hasn't shouldn't be attributed to how hard losing weight is, but how much of a fucking failure he is at doing nothing but eating less.