when it is so easy with technology/science/education.
*emphasis mine
OK if you want to help motivate someone to lose weight, saying this is the absolute wrong thing to say. It makes you sound like you don't know what you are talking about. And you sound kind of offensive to be honest. Even if you don't want to motivate, you should at least not want to make it worse, and saying it's easy to lose weight is for sure going to make it worse.
I just lost 145 pounds and am trying to lose 50 more and none of it has been easy. Every day is a serious struggle and every day I think about what an idiot I was to get fat in the first place. Other people around me eat a regular diet to include desserts and treats and I stick with my 1000 to 1200 calorie a day diet which I have been living with for almost a year and a half. Imagine what it's like to live like that. You don't know why people have to lose weight or how they got there. Maybe they broke their back and never fully recovered and didn't ever adjust their calories and beat themselves up over that every day. Maybe they sit around because they are depressed because a family member died or because they lost their job, or (probably the worst) because people give them such a hard time about being overweight that the only comfort they have is eating food. That is a really hard way to live and really hard to get past.
Losing weight and getting healthy is in no way "easy" when you are seriously, morbidly obese. I admit I don't know how overweight /u/jonesdude25, is, but he didn't sound complimentary about himself which makes me think it's more than a little and that he hears some crap about his body. You telling him it's "easy" is just an insult. And you're just wrong.
I'm all for putting people down when they surround themselves with fat logic and are acting like idiots who think their "personal lifestyle choices" don't effect anyone but themselves, which we all know is not true. But when you have someone without the fat logic, who is admitting their faults and expressing that losing the weight is difficult, countering that it is easy is a huge insult and seems to me to be the opposite of the purpose of this subreddit. I've always used this place as a motivation to lose and be healthier. If all anyone told me was that losing weight was easy if I just tried, I would never come back. People have always been supportive to me here and it's helped me lose more and more. That's how we should be towards /u/jonesdude25 - his lack of fat logic earns him support as he tries to lose weight. That's what we all want, right? He should be allowed to express how difficult it is without empty platitudes (that are not true) being directed at him.
I don't know if you've ever been fat, seriously fat, but for a large majority of us it is not "easy" to lose the weight. I have heard of people who were eating so badly that just switching from Coke to water helped them drop a bunch, but a lot of us actually eat not so bad and have to eat at a large deficit to lose the weight so it is very, very difficult. I would argue that if you want people to be thin and without fat logic, you should either be supportive of their weight loss or maybe just be quiet. And I honestly mean that in the nicest possible way - people are trying to get healthy - we should let them.