I had a really odd experience today.
A close friend came over for coffee. I don't think of her as being obese-- kind of typical middle-aged overweight, but slimmer than me, even after all my loss.
Anyway, she told me that she admired me for doing something that almost 100% of people WANT to do, but almost nobody ever succeeds at.
And I was so surprised by this. I'm so used to stopping by 3FC that I think a LOT of people succeed at weight loss. I don't think of it as rare at all.
But, when I think about my own life, really, I only know one person who lost 100 pounds without any kind of surgery, and that's my uncle.
But maybe a lot of people lose a lot of weight, but it takes time and they move around, so nobody really realizes it.