Why Fat-Shaming Is Wrong.

[True Dough]

20. Conventional and fad "diets" are part of the problem

Yes, keeping the weight off is a real challenge. But this is more about permanent lifestyle choices. It should NOT be approached as a miserable one year existence, depriving yourself of all of your past "guilty indulgences" but instead an entirely different way of going about eating and exercising permanently.

Here's a link from Psychology Today showing that it is doable for some people:


"It's from a recently published study of something called the Look AHEAD trial where Tom Wadden and colleagues studied those factors associated with long term weight loss success. The factors? Paying attention to intake, exercising, and applying the education they received from their expert research team. And would you take a look at that graph! By year 4, of the folks who'd lost more than 10% of their weight in the first year, some did indeed gain it back, but 42.2% kept off nearly 18% of their presenting weight for the full 4 years! In fact they kept off virtually all of their year one losses. Moreover, looking at all comers of the trial and not just the folks who lost a pile in year one, nearly 25% of all participants maintained a 4 year loss greater than 10% of their initial weight.

So it is indeed doable, but ultimately weight loss and maintenance require lifelong effort, therefore if you don't like the effort required, you're not going to keep it up and your weight's going to return."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/traumatic-dieting/201201/are-you-really-doomed-regain-your-lost-weight