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"Choose" is the wrong word but you can certainly decide to change your weight, just as you can decide to give up smoking. It's hard to give up an addiction, an
by zarzavat 4y ago
"Choose" is the wrong word but you can certainly decide to change your weight, just as you can decide to give up smoking.
It's hard to give up an addiction, and yes the companies peddling the addiction as an avenue to profit need to face a reckoning. But at the individual level, we can all choose what weight we want to be. Fatalism doesn't help anyone.
- Retric 4y agoThe statistics for long term ie 10+ year weight loss are abysmal. Only around 20% of people in random trials maintain 10+% weight reduction for even 1 year. People can very much choose to lose weight, but it seems odd to say most people are then “choosing” to gain weight again. That said willpower does seems to account for a small percentage of overall weight so it very much does play a role.
- 29083011397778 4y ago> The statistics for long term ie 10+ year weight loss are abysmal Great - now do cigarettes. If you'd prefer to skip the math though, the CDC states "Fewer than one in ten adult cigarette smokers succeed in quitting each year". I don't think it's completely unfair to compare quitting smoking with weight loss.
- Retric 4y agoThat’s just the first year, only something like 2% of people who lose weight keep it off for 10 years. People maintained weight loss for 1 year are simply much more likely to regain weight in the next year than people who quit smoking for 1 year are likely to start smoking again over the next year and that trend stays consistent over time.
- pwinnski 4y agoThis is ignorant of decades of research and the effectiveness of hormone-manipulating drugs like the one under discussion.