re my new diet it works great in article apr inmet camb inmet com mazur bluefin camb inmet com beth mazur writes in apr omen uucp caf omen uucp chuck forsberg wa kgx writes gordon your experience is valid for many but not all the fact that you know a few people who have been overweight and are now stable at a lower normal or just less weight does not contradict the observation that only per cent can maintain ideal weight with current technology actually the observation is that only of those who seek help from your so called diet evangelists can maintain their weight i happen to agree with keith lynch that there are many people who can and do lose weight on their own and who are not reflected in the dismal failure rate that is often quoted wasn t there a study where a researcher asked a more general population perhaps some part of a university community about weight loss and he she found that a much higher percentage had lost and maintained in fact adiposity mentions a similar study search for life events in any recent version of adiposity the problem with anecdotal reports about individuals who have lost weight and kept it off is that we don t know what caused the weight gain in the first place this is critical because someone who gains weight because of something temporary drug effect life event etc may appear successful at dieting when the weight loss was really the result of reversing the temporary condition that caused the weight gain chuck forsberg wa kgx tektronix reed omen caf author of ymodem zmodem professional yam zcomm and dsz omen technology inc the high reliability software v nw sauvie is rd portland or
