God didn't make you fat. Eating too much and moving too little made you fat.
Nah, Hypoglycemia did. My body produces way too much *** insulin. Probably due to some traumatic event in my childhood that caused my brain to go into PTSD mode at a very young age.
...no.
Calories In > Calories Out makes you fat.
Calories out > Calories In changes that.
Anything else is just varying shades of fat logic.
that's the baseline equation that holds true in absence of any other conditions (don't know any people who don't have one condition or another) - its a lot more complicated than that.
Calories are a source of fuel. You're right there. How well bodies capture that fuel or utilize it varies. The mechanism for delivering those calories to the cells is Insulin.
Insulin is the primary cause of weight problems.
see an endocrinologist for a better explanation.