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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by oaktrout on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:44AM (#29634358)
The data you posted shows that the average person was able to maintain about 7lbs of weight loss without surgery, so it's definitely more than 5%*.

Also, who is saying we are calling patients weak willed losers? Should we not tell patients to stop smoking, or to quit heroin, because they might think that we think of them as "weak willed losers"?

*edit for ambiguous wording: By this I mean it seems to work for at least 50% of people, with the average being 3% weight loss.

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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by cm2012 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:56AM (#29634425)
The data shows 3% average for the best case scenario fitness regime they found as far as I can read.

For the weak willed comment, that was a reference to Pizza234's comment I was responding to earlier, not yours.

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Re:My career of treating patients has ended by oaktrout on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:27AM (#29634606)
The 3% from the meta analysis above was not for a single "best case scenario fitness regime". It was a number calculated by pooling data from ~28 studies with varied methodologies. A significant portion of those studies employed dietary changes alone (no fitness regime).
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