It might help, but consider this:
May 6, 2007
Fat Chance By EMILY BAZELON
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Bazelon.t.html
RETHINKING THIN The New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting.
By Gina Kolata. 257 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $24.
If you had to choose, would you rather be fat or blind? When a researcher asked that question of a group of formerly obese people, 89 percent said they would prefer to lose their sight than their hard-won slimness. “When you’re blind, people want to help you. No one wants to help you when you’re fat,” one explained. Ninety-one percent of the group also chose having a leg amputated over a return to obesity.
This is shocking. But it seems less so by the end of “Rethinking Thin,” a new book about obesity by Gina Kolata, a science reporter for The New York Times. Kolata argues that being fat is not something people have much control over. Most people who are overweight struggle to change their shape throughout their lives, but remain stuck within a relatively narrow weight range set by their genes. For those determined to foil biology, strict dieting is a life sentence. “I am a fat man in a thin man’s body,” an M.I.T. obesity researcher who shed his unwanted pounds years ago tells Kolata.
Rest of review is at the link.
An open question is: does it make a difference to encouraging children to avoid accumulating a lot of “excess” fat cells early in life. Maybe, like cholesterol, it’s not something that can be easily regulated by diet.
strict dieting is a life sentence
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Overwhelming hunger goes along with it. It NEVER goes away.
Imagine how you felt when you were **really**, **really**, hungry?
That is how I feel 24/7.
**Strict** dieting is my constant companion.