[Yosemitest]

There's a lot of truth in that graphic.
As a retired air traffic controller, I understand the "Stress" part of that equation.
I ask a "Flight Surgeon" once about cortisone and the commercials on TV at that time (1990s), and if it was all B.S.
He said "No, its real. It's one way that the body deals with stress, and it causes the body to produce more "fat cells" to store food for the body to burn later to deal with stress.

Now another problem with OBESITY that you have to deal with as you get older is medicines.
I'm diabetic type II, and I ask the doctor recently, why when I cut back on my food intake, I can't loose weight.
He said it was the insulin shots and the meds that I have to take to control my blood sugar.
He also said that it gets harder to control over time.

The long and the short of it is,

Take your health seriously at a young age and watch it closely,
because once you get a health problem,
it's harder to get out of it, than it is to avoid having the health problem,
to start with.

[3D-JOY]

I controlled my husband’s Type 2 diabetes for several years. 4 small meals and 2 snacks...

One day he told the Dr. he was tired of the routine and The Dr. said well I can give you pills instead. It was all downhill from there.

[WhiskeyX]

That is exactly correct. You’ll find the upcoming videos to be especially interesting in your case.

The vast majority of the medical community is locked into a set of standard practices which and medical school training which virtually guarantees Type II diabetics will slowly or quickly see their insulin and glucose control spiral out of control as they age no matter how hard they try to restrict calories, restrict sugars, and exercise like demons one or more hours per day. It is a vicious cycle where their pancreas is stimulated to produce ever more insulin in an ever increasingly failed effort to improve cellular insulin sensitivity, and remove glucose from the bloodstream. The cells reject the glucose erroneously identifying the glucose as a foreign substance triggering an immune reaction and an inflammatory response, and they send messages to the brain signaling the onset of starvation and a need to slow the metabolism down and store all available fats into the adipose tissues as a reserve for a period of famine, while also signaling the need for increased hunger for more sweets to meet the erroneous starvation crisis.

As the insulin levels keep going up, the insulin locks up the fats in the adipose tissues ever more tightly, and refuse to release them to be used up as fuel. So, the adipose tissues just keep adding fat and refuse to release the fat. when the metabolism demands ever more calories energy and fails to get that energy from additional inputs of sugars and other carbohydrates, the metabolism turns to the protein found in the muscles, dissolves the muscles and uses the proteins to synthesize glucose to put into the bloodstream, raising the blood sugars again, while wasting away the muscles. Some of the muscle being wasted away is the heart muscle, leading to increased risk of heart failures.

The diabetic medications which treat the disease by increasing insulin to remove glucose from the blood also insures weight gain, insures wasting of muscles, and inhibits the ability to remove fat from adipose tissues. Unless this vicious cycle can be broken, it is only a matter of time before the increasing weight caused by the increasing insulin results in critical medical emergencies and death. However, one way of breaking this vicious spiral has been used by some people to reverse the cycle, lose substantial weight, and regain much of their health.