But before we get to it, let's talk. Not on the phone.
Diets fail because they are 100% impossible diets. Just about all of them.
It is absolutely clear that people regain weight because they never really learned how to properly control Calories in while they were "dieting." No amount of intervention will be able to overcome the terrible feelings of hunger associated with nutritional homicide disguised as dieting. It is because fat people are in such pain that they need intervention. Someone has to keep prodding them to continue the hurt. But it comes to an end and people do what they need to make themselves feel better - eat and eat and eat. Then when they try again, all they know is the wrong way to lose weight, so the cycle repeats.
"We've all heard it's easy to lose weight, but nearly impossible to keep those lost pounds off. One thing that might work is a regular, short phone call to a professional counselor. Researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) conducted a weight-loss maintenance trial in which participants that had a brief, monthly personal contact intervention most often a 10-15 minute personal phone conversation regained less weight than participants who were in a Web-based intervention or self-directed program."Note: that all participants regained weight only some regained less.
How much less?
"At the start of the study, participants, on average, weighed 213 lbs. The average weight loss in the first phase for all participants was 18.7 lbs. After the weight loss phase, all groups regained weight, but researchers saw a clear difference. The self-directed group gained an average of 12.1 lbs.; the interactive technology based group an average of 11.5 lbs.; and in the personal-contact group, an average of 8.8 lbs. The average weight at 30 months remained lower in each group than average weight at entry into the study."A negligible amount.
At a great cost of time, effort, energy and money.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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