“Insulin and a lifelong tether to the pharmacy aren’t “too restrictive?”
I see your point, but “you can’t eat that” is a different type of restriction.
People for whom something is easy sometimes assume that it is equally easy for everyone, and that is not always true. There are people who cannot say “no” to the dessert cart for the rest of their lives, even if it means an early death.
When I was young and healthy enough to lose weight, I only succeeded because I gave myself one cheat per week: cheeseburger, fries, coke, banana split.
Because it was permitted rather than a failure, I could get right back on the regime for another week.
Of all the people who resolve to stay on any restrictive diet for the rest of their lives...well, I’d bet most of them slip up at some point. People have a tendency to go Huck Finn when they slip up, and instead of getting up and continuing, they decide to own failure and fall back into their old ways.
>>When I was young and healthy enough to lose weight, I only succeeded because I gave myself one cheat per week: cheeseburger, fries, coke, banana split.<<
I do that and it works. One meal a weak when the rules go out the window. Since I don’t eat that much anyway I can’t really put away a lot anyway. In-n-Out, Taco Bell, A pastrami on rye and the like.