Originally Posted by Gnosis

It took 53 years for me to eventually reach a body weight of 210 pounds, the last 40 pounds of which was gained slowly over the last 25 years of those 53 years.

However, after bicycling and commuting regularly via my portly mountain bikes over a period of just 9 months, I managed to lose 37.8 pounds!

Hence, your statement clearly doesn’t hold true in any generalized manner that it takes as long to lose weight as it does to gain weight.