Is there any research on long term weight loss that argues a meaningful amount of weight loss is reasonably possible? https://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11649210/bi

Is there any research on long term weight loss that argues a meaningful amount of weight loss is reasonably possible? https://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11649210/biggest-loser-weight-loss https://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11649210/biggest-loser-weight-... Vox has an article on it supposedly working, but the results are not what anyone who is overweight would call successful. > The results at year eight are heartening. Eight years later and 50.3 percent of the intensive lifestyle intervention group and 35.7 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥5 percent, while 26.9 percent of the intensive group and 17.2 percent of the usual care group were maintaining losses of ≥10 percent. In layman’s terms, half lost nothing. Half of the losers lost so little that they wouldn’t notice. 1/4 lost 10%. Basically nobody who was obese reached a normal weight.