if i'm having a half cup of rice and a half chicken breast grilled up (with no butter or salt) and cut up into the rice, i don't know what world you live in where that's enough for me to get any sort of fat from. if my secondary meal of the day is a half bowl of plain cheerios, those two things together will not a tubbo make. but if i'm sitting all day and not moving much/at all, there's a likelier chance that it'll turn into fat instead of being burned off.

i literally want to have someone follow me around for a week and watch what i eat to try to explain to me where all this fat is coming from, because when i brought in my food diary (which i kept for a month because my doctor didn't believe me) and showed him, he told me 'if this is correct', meaning he didn't believe me still, that i was undereating and that was part of my problem. so yea, bodies work exactly like that and you don't need to be starving every day to be in starvation mode. if you're eating for three days and not for one, then eating for another six and then not for one, your body is fucked up and starts to store everything as fat. it just does. if you can't understand that, then you've never been on a poor person's diet where you don't get to eat every day and where, yes, you get fat because of your yoyo eating habits.