Fatty tries to make a comparison between weight loss and fueling cars. This is how they think. ...Wow. Here's a screenshot of the quote with the simile Here's the full article (links to medium.com) if you want to read it in full. It only gets worse.  My personal favorite: "This is why in long term studies, 99% of diets based on the calorie equation eventually fail. The weight always comes back."  They have it up to 99% now. 99%. And it's only that low because they need to have around 1% so they can scream at the people who are "exceptions." Let's see how long it takes for them to make it "99.56% of diets fail."