[spaceprison]

100%. after a lifetime of being overweight I found the will to make diet changes and ended up losing about 90lbs. The thing that's missed in these 'it's just calories in, calories out and will power' types of comments is that the commitment required to accomplish the weight loss is nothing compared to life consuming commitment required to maintain the loss over multiple years.

After 5 years of vigilance the mental and social toll was just too much and I gradually let down my guard within about 3 years I was up 50+lbs.

So now 10 years on it's corner cutting because there's a medical intervention that can help or just weakness because I can't find the will to do it to myself and people around me all over again?

Not helpful.