Ah yes! The sanctimonious blame game. So very common with this problem. I do have to ask though, did you read the article at all?<p>&#x27;For example, men with severe obesity have only one chance in 1,290 of reaching the normal weight range within a year; severely obese women have one chance in 677. A vast majority of those who beat the odds are likely to end up gaining the weight back over the next five years. In private, even the diet industry agrees that weight loss is rarely sustained. A report for members of the industry stated: “In 2002, 231 million Europeans attempted some form of diet. Of these only 1 percent will achieve permanent weight loss.”&#x27;<p>I&#x27;m pretty certain studies generally conclude that people who lose weight are _overwhelmingly_ likely to regain it. Of course you can play the blame&#x2F;shame game with them and say they&#x27;re all just lazy, but you&#x27;re really starting to walk away from the facts and towards the all-too-common ideology that surrounds weight.<p>Also:<p>&#x27;After several months of eating fewer than 800 calories a day and spending an hour at the gym every morning, I hadn’t lost another ounce.&#x27;<p>So the &#x27;not much science involved&#x27; calorie balance really REALLY should have resulted in a loss at this rate, yet it didn&#x27;t - how do you explain that? I mean that literally entirely contradicts your claim.<p>I&#x27;m overweight. I take full responsibility for my situation and make no excuses. But losing weight is surprisingly, intensely difficult and your body fights you every damn inch of the way and this kind of blaming, sanctimonious &#x27;it&#x27;s simple&#x27; shite you hear so often does NOT fit reality.<p>Congratulations on your loss, but don&#x27;t assume you&#x27;ll sustain it. I lost about the same amount of weight as you with the same calorie limit as you, and despite all this will likely try again and have good results at least initially. But I think longer term you have to think more carefully about how the hell you&#x27;ll sustain it, it really _isn&#x27;t_ simple.