If you had 80lbs of excess fat on you, is there any hope you'd look good within a year or is this a multi year process shit?

Comfortably cutting of course. Nothing to the extremes.

>>1793792 (OP)
Couple of years, specially with the lose skin shit
>Nothing to the extremes.
Gay.
Correct board btway

>>1793792 (OP)
yeah, look into fat adaptation, fasting, ketosis, and strict carnivore. two of the easy low hanging fruits you can do is cutting out all sugar and hyperprocessed foods, and doing resistance training, don't bother with cardio it's a waste of time unless you are an athlete (clearly you aren't). It can be done easily, once you are fat adapted, it's not even a will power thing, no counting calories or even starving.