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Originally Posted by photon
Gastric surgery is the only method that has a long term success rate of more than single digit percentage points.
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Education is the key to this I think. Lots of people (and I'm guilty of this too), are simply uninformed or just think completely incorrectly about food.
I would do the "I walked a lot today, so I can have this slab of cake for dessert" or "I worked out at the gym for an hour, so I'll have McDonalds for dinner". I also greatly underestimated the caloric value of the foods I was eating and ate simply because of whatever activity I was doing. Having a large pop and a slice or two of pizza at the movies was normal for me, or having a bunch of chips while I watched TV. What I was failing to realize was that the chips were 1000 calories and the pop/pizza combo was close to 1500.
Not going to lie, changing is hard as ####. This last try is probably the third or forth time I've resolved to eat better and lose weight. Changing years or ingrained behaviors and thinking is not easy for anyone. My biggest issue is with the apparent normalization of poor activities and not with the people who are struggling with them.