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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not put too much stock in Maintenance Phase.  They did an episode on a topic on which I am a subject matter expert and the research was completely shoddy.  They missed key publications.  Their product is a product designed to generate buzz and likes, like everything else.  Plus obviously she has an agenda to advance.  Researchers need to be neutral.[/quote]

So fat people haven’t been treated poorly by health care providers?
So fat people don’t suffer from eating disorders?
[b]So it’s really just a matter of calories in/calories out, and if fat people just had some more self-control and will power, they could fix themselves. 
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Is that what you’re saying? Because those are the big agenda items of Maintenance Phase, and if they’re way off base, please enlighten us. [/quote]

There have been studies done of some of the people who appeared on the biggest loser. One of the guys was a great success story but the follow up is more interesting. Google for the info. He was followed for years by researches interested in the subject. [b]To maintain his weight loss he had to maintain an almost starvation diet. His body was more efficient in storing and maintaining fat. [/b]We know genetics plays a big part of this and many twin studies have been done. There are differences in how bodies react to calories so to say it is a matter of calories in/calories out is not helpful.[/quote]

Isn't part of this due to the way the weight was lost -- total crash diet vs slow & sustained?

I have an older sister who is obese. She is a closet eater. If you go into her kitchen, cabinet contents rarely change -- because that isn't the actual, healthy food she is eating. She loses and gains weight over and over. Diets, prescription pills, two weight loss surgeries (the band and that other one...can't recall the name), you name it she has done it. But the issue it always comes down to? Behavior; she is a closet, emotional eater who will not continue therapy for her underlying issues.

No one in our family has criticized her weight. And she has a loving husband that does not now or every criticize her body.

For every diet, she lets us all know what she is doing and how it will be different from the last one. She shares diet milestones, tells us about the shopping sprees (she is wealthy) she goes on when she meets them, etc. No one congratulates or compliments her on the losses; we know better by now. If anyone dares, she becomes enraged.

[b]It is like dealing with an addict[/b] who tries time and again to stay clean.

I know that there are different reasons for obesity and reason why people can't lose and/or keep it off. But she is my motivation for staying on the thin side. I love her, but her experiences frighten me.[/quote]

She IS an addict. Her problem is as behavioral as taking herion and alcoholic drinking. Sugars bind to the same receptors in the brain as heroin.[/quote]

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