Obesity can be cured by simply jogging three miles a day and eating a balanced diet

Jogging 3 miles is going to burn about the same calories walking 3 miles will. It seems counter intuitive, since the latter is less intense, but it takes longer. Obese people don't need to become skinny people with fucked up knees.

Also that's burning roughly 300 calories either way, or about two cans of soda, or 4 cookies. It is so much easier just not to eat that in the first place than it is to exercise.

All people need to do is not eat as much. It doesn't even have to be a balanced diet, you can whatever (even those cookies and soda) as long as you're at a caloric deficit overall.

Although some foods keep you full longer and it's absolutely miserable to try to eat at a deficit and fit crap foods in there, you absolutely can do it in theory.

The whole point is, your biggest asset in losing weight is your basal metabolic rate (BMR). Exercising, besides marathons and mountain climbing, is a pittance compared to what your BMR does even just sitting on your ass doing nothing.

People don't know this. I did not know this for a long time. Even in school they teach nonsense about it. Dieting is a big industry, so there's even more deliberate obfuscation going on there. Add to that the move against fat shaming, we try to pretend fat can be healthy.

But it is a basic unavoidable truth: If you are fat it is because you eat too much. Full stop.

Losing weight is unpleasant, like quitting a drug, so people look for gimmicks to make it easier, like quitting a drug. You just have to want it enough.

If your monkey bar moat plan goes through I'll probably just invest in a trebuchet.