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What we don't get around to examining is WHY someone would go back to overeating. It's not the "diet" that fails - it's the person who fails to change their behavior permanently because they go into it with a mindset that they are "going on a diet".
People are weak and we like to pretend we are all strong, so when the person chooses to leave the path we blame the path. I suggest that for any person who loses weight long term (whether by surgery or otherwise), they did it because they quit blaming their path, they quit looking at the path other people were on, and they quit looking at healthy behavior as some kind of special punishment to endure and started incorporating it as a LIFESTYLE. Long term weight loss is about living a different life, not picking the right diet or surgery. You can't go on a diet or have surgery to have a different life, but you can LIVE a different life.
Is that a killer quote or what??What we don't get around to examining is WHY someone would go back to overeating. It's not the "diet" that fails - it's the person who fails to change their behavior permanently because they go into it with a mindset that they are "going on a diet".
People are weak and we like to pretend we are all strong, so when the person chooses to leave the path we blame the path. I suggest that for any person who loses weight long term (whether by surgery or otherwise), they did it because they quit blaming their path, they quit looking at the path other people were on, and they quit looking at healthy behavior as some kind of special punishment to endure and started incorporating it as a LIFESTYLE. Long term weight loss is about living a different life, not picking the right diet or surgery. You can't go on a diet or have surgery to have a different life, but you can LIVE a different life.
The floor is now open!!!