Fatties make me rage

I honestly feel like it was mainly his thyroid

With his thyroid issue he could've eaten the healthiest diet on the planet and still gotten excessively large.

And that's the point, you don't know that. You don't know how much he NEEDED, to eat. Do you think that if he stopped eating, all that weight would go away? Do you think the problem was that he didn't diet enough at 6 years old, almost 100 years ago during the Great Depression?

It's also impossible to tell because we have no idea what the guy was eating, he could've been eating 1500 cals a day and got this large if his tdee was exceptionally low. My friends sister is on the larger side due to a thyroid issue as well and she eats a meal a day with a few snacks, just to maintain.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1bg5mak/robert_earl_hughes_19261958_heaviest_person/kv4w3cr/?context=8

But doesn't he realize that according to Reddit bros it's just calories in calories out and that's science. 🙄

The point is that "excess calories" in is different for different people because of how you metabolize them. This dude had a completely fricked thyroid.

I put on weight while eating a “normal amount of food” due to diabetes. I tried unsuccessfully for years to lose weight by reducing calories, but when I did I would get sick from low blood sugar. Trying to eat keto made me feel so sick that it was like I had the flu. Amazingly once I got the correct medication to help my body actually process the normal amount of food I was eating, I lost 70 lbs in under a year while still eating the same food, and no increase in exercise. I do eat less now due to just needing less calories in general to keep my glucose/energy levels stable. I'm glad for it too. Forcing yourself to eat when you're NOT hungry, but you know you HAVE to eat because your blood sugar is low is actually a miserable feeling and it completely takes the joy out of a meal.

You're trying to correlate basic thermodynamics to a complex bio chemical process that is controlled and regulated by a number of factors and different person to person. Different bodies consume calories at different rates and what is sufficient exercise for one person to have calories out = calories in may be woefully insufficient exercise for another person. The amount of exercise required for that person to reach that equilibrium may be untenable on a human scale. You also factor in that fat people burn more calories to exist than thin people and you end up in a place where many people literally can't lose weight without going woefully calorie deficient on intake and end up with all kinds of malnutrition related health problems. Go above that and they don't lose any weight. Happens all the time. So while calories in calories out is correct if you reduce all complexity out of the issue, the fact is it's not particularly meaningful advice from a practical standpoint. Nor is giving advice on weight loss on every conversation involving a fat person particularly productive.