Six out of seven obese individuals will lose a significant amount of body weight in their lifetime, but the majority do not maintain the loss.

“I think with diets in general there's a lot of reversion to the mean you know regression to the mean so I would expect that that some have kept it off and some have not that would be true of I think every possible diet especially for people who are overcoming beh avoral inertia of having gained hundreds of pounds”