Eliezer made a Facebook post asking for advice losing weight saying not to bother telling him to eat less because it doesn’t work.
To steelman this (I haven’t seen the Facebook post), just getting told to “eat less” is not helpful advice. There is a sense where it’s the solution: there are two variables, calories in and calories out, and “eat less” decreases the calories in. However, it’s not good advice because people don’t generally have enough long term commitment power to just cut out food. Your suggestions at the end of the post are ways to make eating less easier, but you need to have those intermediate solutions.
To steelman this (I haven’t seen the Facebook post), just getting told to “eat less” is not helpful advice. There is a sense where it’s the solution: there are two variables, calories in and calories out, and “eat less” decreases the calories in. However, it’s not good advice because people don’t generally have enough long term commitment power to just cut out food. Your suggestions at the end of the post are ways to make eating less easier, but you need to have those intermediate solutions.
I agree getting told to eat less is not helpful advice. Here is the Facebook post, which I don’t think your steelman applies to.