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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can definitely lose it. Whether you can keep it off for more than a few years is an open question. DCUM is full of people who swear they know a ton of people who lost 40 lbs permanently through diet and exercise alone, but I am always very skeptical of those posts because those anecdotes don’t track years and years of rigorous population studies. [/quote]

That’s fair. But have you ever considered many people have zero interest in being studied or sharing that kind of health information in a way that it would be recorded for a study? I didn’t and I have zero interest in that. I already have people saying garbage non stop about my weight loss years later. It’s exhausting. [/quote]

The studies that track weight loss aren’t about what people like. Typically they come out of large longitudinal studies. And there are approximately fifty years worth of them.

All I’m saying is that I side-eye the fact that DCUM seems to have a very high number of extreme statistical outliers, and that makes me inherently skeptical of everything else they say. [/quote]

I am not sure you are following what I am saying. Quite literally these studies require participants, even if they are not focused on weight loss and instead study a whole variety of feature sets. I suspect there are a large number of people that have managed to turn their health ship around that simply don't want to be studied, never wanted to be studied, and won't be part of any longitudinal study for anything. I would go so far as to say those that are part of these studies might even create some kind of selection bias.

So we are going to have to disagree concerning "extreme statistical outliers." That's BS defeatist thinking in my opinion. [/quote]

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