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Originally Posted by Bonded
The one thing I don't like about the NYT article and others like it that pop every now and then is the fact they make it sound like it is impossible to lose weight. Combine that with Health at Every Size (HAES) movement and I think we are setting up people with a defeatist attitude.
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Science just says what it discovers, and yes the harsh truth is the last decades of diet fads failed miserably. People get a defeatist attitude when they try over and over again different ways of losing weight only to return to previous weight or usually worse (yo yo dieting).
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Now maybe shaming isn't the way to go with weight loss, but, I do not think we should be promoting severe obesity.
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lol where are we promoting obesity?? Fat shaming is not only horrible, it does the opposite of helping people, it only makes them feel worse, and what to people with obesity issues do when they feel bad, eat more...
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I think one of the biggest problems with the weight loss cycle is that many people diet without making a committed lifestyle change. Diet for a month, lose weight, and then go back to the habits that made them obese.
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Partially correct, that is a very simplistic outlook at the problem however. When you say committed lifestyle change, people do this all the time, the problem is however the body fights you tooth and nail to get back to its previous weight (set point) and even your own hormones in your stomach work against you.
[quote]It is possible to lose weight and keep it off. Diets are not the answer, lifestyle changes are.[/quote
Well obviously lol, but that still does not change the fact the overwhelming majority fail, and if you want to blame that on the individuals for being lazy, lacking willpower, etc like so often people do (usually people who have never dealt with a serious weight problem), then I feel sorry for you, because that doesn't jive with the reality of the science and biology as we know today.
I love these kinds of programs, people who enter group activities for physical exercise, eating healthy support groups do fare better. Again the key being slow and steady weight loss.