it's nice when you have different concepts about internal work and such,
but the objective reality is this: to create permanent fat loss you have to
burn more calories during the day than you consume from your food sources
and beverages.
Our bodies are very efficient, and it is easy to consume 500 more calories per
day than our body can burn (one ice cream is enough)
multiply this 500 x 7 days = 1 pound of body fat (3500 calories), this means
that during a year if this pattern is continued 52 pounds of body fat is
guaranteed.
now to lose weight is a lot more difficult than gaining, because our bodies are
very efficient at storing body fat, but do not easily release the stored fat
from the fat cells. The reason is simple, body fat is a long term energy
source for our body, and to burn it off and create permanent fat loss takes
a lot of work,
...including inside (motivation) work, which includes knowing how to focus on
a future self of yourself, knowing how to objectively assess current reality,
and knowing how to take action and bring this vision into reality by taking
steps toward permanent fat loss and adjusting your approach the whole time
that you are walking down the path toward your major health goal
(permanent fat loss)
...and since it is much more concentrated at 9 calories per gram this means
that 30 pounds of body fat is over 100,000 calories (actually they are
Kilocalories, but that's another story) it takes a lot of work, especially cardio
to burn this many calories off, and to make sure your burn fat, instead of
losing 75% of the weight from water and muscle like most people that try
losing weight using low calorie and many fad diets
anyway here is an article about body fat, what it is, how it is stored, used, etc
Body Fat, How Body Fat is broken down, stored, and burned
this can really help to understand, because it will make you look at this
process from a different angle