Healthy food tastes like garbage, Unhealthy food tastes like garbage, I hate having to shovel weird shit into my mouth on like a daily basis.

It’s not always as simple as that. For me, there is also massive depression that interferes with what is reasonable

People don't want to cook. It really just comes down to that. They want other people to make their food for them, and because of that the responsibility of maintaining a healthy diet is shifted onto a third party that doesn't care and was never meant to care if you're fat. People just need to cook man, it's so easy, and fun, and rewarding, and you can actually control what you put in your body. Of course, mental illness can screw things up too. When the brain turns against you, there isn't much you can do.

For me it’s a problem of self control, motivation and junk food has become an unhealthy coping method for the anxiety plaguing my life

Yeah, depression is pretty much the only thing holding me back at this point. One day I'm gonna hit the right cobcoction of meds, and I'll be flying to tge damn moon.

Mental illness for some, biological predisposition for others, and some people are just convinced there's nothing they can do about it.

With any sort of executive dysfunction, there is a wide gulf between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

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But if you know that is your coping method for anxiety and you know that it is unhealthy and making you look worse isn't it causing more anxiety? And the gym has been proven to reduce stress and anxiety and it makes you look better witch would give you more confidence. So how is it easier to choose eating to cope than it is to just do some quick and easy home workouts

This is just an appalling take that overlooks the fact that there are wealthy fat people. Like "wealthy enough to have a personal trainer and a full time personal chef" people.

I'm not personally that rich but I still earn enough to buy pre-cooked meals from services like Factor 75 or meals that I still need to cook from services like Blue Apron and it doesn't fucking help.

Being overweight and losing that weight is so monstrously hard that the only way to do so reliably is to undergo surgery that permanently impacts your diet and lifestyle.

If your take of people just being lazy were valid you'd expect some percentage of people to be able to turn it around, but for every success story you might see here on Reddit or in other media, there are so many people stuck in obesity that the people who succeed are basically a statistical fluke.

https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/fat-officially-incurable-according-to-science

One of the biggest problems is portion control. Over time it's very easy to lose sight of how much food we need to survive. The body is very efficient. It's very easy to consume more calories than needed each day and that adds up very quickly. It is very easy to get used to overeating. So much so that what we may see as a normal portion is way more than what we need. Curving the behavior that was built over a lifetime is often impossible.Add to that that we can't just quit eating then it's very very hard to change.

example:

If you consume an additional 250 calories. Let's say a few extra servings of pasta a week. To burn those calories, you'd need to walk for about 70 minutes. Most people won't even think about doing the extra effort. Do that enough times and you're overweight.

Your 80% of the work concept is a fantasy. Losing weight literally feels like starving yourself. Try going 48 hours without eating anything or drinking anything other than water. It should be easy right? Losing weight is basically experiencing that sensation, continuously, for months at least and potentially for years or forever, because your body wants to revert.

Nah, it's really easy. I had a bad case of depression that left me unable to drive without fear of wrecking, let alone doing anything else, and I gained forty pounds in that time, a course of two years. Lost the weight in about three months. It's really easy. Wealth has nothing to do with it, you even said yourself that you're paying people to select your food for you. It should be of no surprise that selecting the right food for you is not their priority, making money is. Cooking is cheap (the cheapest possible option), it's easy, and you can have absolute control of what you eat.

Want to eat broccoli and mushrooms? Then you cook broccoli and mushrooms. Want to eat a salad with chicken and whatever vegetables you like? Then you make that salad. No preservatives, no added sugars. If you're having a problem finding something to stick to, cut out sugar and starches (bread, rice, etc). That's an easy diet to work around, and it's the one I typically use whenever I want to lose some weight.

That’d be the motivation problem getting in the way