Eating less helps you lose weight. News at eleven. Seriously, how difficult is it to understand that? Once when I was in the US I had some pancakes for breakfast and on the side was a huge chunk of white mass that looked like a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I took a large bite and oh boy.. it was butter. Plain butter. That chunk alone was about half of the calorie need of an average young person. Oh, and then there was the maple sirup, chocolate, and artificially sweetened orange juice. No wonder the US is so obese.