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>is the default outcome?
>it's not
It is.
By 1 year a >50% of people who lost weight will have regained all the weight they lost and then some, by 5 years its nearly all of them have regained all the weight they lost and then some. The people who actually succeed in keeping the weight off are the outliers. This is true regardless of weightloss method, surgery, diet, lifestyle change, drugs. Good habits erode, people lose interest in their weight once they lose it, and next thing they know they're back where they started or worse. The people who keep it off are the ones who agonize over their diet/weight/appearance/health the rest of their lives, because when you relax, you stop counting your calories, you stop limiting your eating windows, you stop denying yourself all the things you're craving, that's when you gain it all back. You can never go back to eating normally if you were ever a fatass, your body doesn't know what normal is and once you start giving it what it thinks it wants you'll be 300+lbs before you know it.