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Originally Posted by bubbsy
the "science" of the article is what exactly?
Is it a sheer biological issue that body itself will gravitate back to original/higher weight? Or is it the psychological issue that sustaining a change in diet and doing regular exercise in order to lose weight is just too difficult for a lot of people to maintain forever?
what i got out of the article is that it is the latter... and if that is so, then there is still hope, but it is just extremely difficult to bring make the type of changes foundational to the way we operate. The "hope" is that humans are capable of accomplishing a lot thru willpower/motivation. This article in itself (if my assumption is that the scientific reason why only 5% keep the weight off is due to the difficulty in maintaining the lifestyle changes) should be a motivator that 95% of all of us end up giving up on the tall task, but there is still a % that is able to push thru....
Curious what % of addicts (drugs/alcohol) who go into treatment and get clean, are able to maintain that for a decade? Is there such a statistic?
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I would think there's hope either way. People regulate their biological impulses all the time. Otherwise us guys would be screwing (or trying to) everything that moved whether attached to another person or not. Most people can reasonably regulate this, but some can't so you end up with sexual deviants.
If it is a biological process that your body wants to maintain/add to whatever weight you have put on, it again takes a concious effort to regulate yourself, and some people may have a very difficult time doing it and end up obese, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.