Can confirm. We halved the portion size of our meals and are now losing weight, feeling better and just as active. I think we've been brought up in the West to over-eat, probably for simple profit motives.

but its so tasty, moar

If you want results right now you need to do crazy things. If you are prepared to take as long fixing it as you took breaking it you'll be able to do more sustainable changes and succeed. Of course the impatient approach usually leads to burnout and failure before the results show up anyway. That means your real options are fail or be patient.

Just bike around, and burn those mfs down!

Not necessarily, you can definitely eat too many whole food calories.

Yeah, it's just some people are not able to do so on their own.