If it was as easy as a lifestyle change (which itself isn't easy), then more people would be successful at it. But it isn't.
It's correct that people need to be educated on weight, but they need to be educated on it PRIOR to weight gain. Weight gain needs to be viewed less like a cold (something you can recover from) and more like Ebola (you might get better from Ebola but probably not). Currently prevention is the only cure for obesity.
Gastric surgery is the only method that has a long term success rate of more than single digit percentage points.
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