Learn Spanish (Latin America): El exceso me molesta, así que voy a sacar todo lo que estorbe. - Excess bothers me, so I am going to take out everything that is in the way.

In the phrase todo lo que estorbe, the subjunctive is used because the speaker is talking about things they haven't identified yet. They don't have specific objects in mind; they just mean "whatever happens to be in the way." If they were talking about a known, specific group of things that are currently in the way, they would use the indicative (todo lo que estorba).

What does todo lo que mean, and why do we need the lo?

Todo lo que translates to "everything that" or "all that." The lo acts as a neutral pronoun meaning "the thing" or "that which." You can't just say todo que in Spanish; you must use lo to link todo (everything) with que (that).

Why does the sentence start with El exceso instead of just Exceso?

In English, we often drop "the" when talking about concepts in a general way, like "excess" or "love." In Spanish, abstract nouns or nouns used in a general sense almost always require a definite article (el, la, los, las) when they are the subject of the sentence.

Does me molesta mean "excess molests me"?