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Originally Posted by maleficent  there are a lot of weight loss forums who's members are quite enabling.... and if you want to do 800 calories aday eating all chocolate chips all the time -they'll applaud you..a nd cheer you and won't care that that approach won't be successful long term... |
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Originally Posted by txsqlchick I know enough to know that won't work, and I would say as much to someone who was doing that. |
For at least some values of "work," it certainly would. Heck, I did pretty much that as a teenager, and it certainly made it possible for me to sustain an otherwise-unsustainable low weight. If all you care about is the number on the scale,
calories are
calories. Is it the ideal way to go about
weight loss? Heck, no. But not because it doesn't work for all values of "work."
And that's sort of the prevailing opinion here on WLS - that it works for a fairly limited set of values of "work," but isn't the ideal way to go about
weight loss.
