Barely one percent, and I am one of them, are successful in maintaining. I dumped 85 lbs 35 years ago, and it is a never ending process. While I absolutely applaud this first and easiest step, and time will inform us just how easy losing is to keeping it off decade after decade, I am always deeply saddened by the compulsion to go SO public before you have at least five to seven years of hard core, day to day, minute to minute experience. This is in no way a slap down. It's a reality check, Emma. Very very VERY few keep it off. This kind of rapid weight loss, while seductive as hell in the messaging, will not work for everyone, and the body instantly wants all that fat back. The body's systems are against us in this regard. Don't believe me, do the research. There is no easy pill, magic solution. There are eight billion different ways to be fit. Fit is not thin is not fit. FIT is fit. And sometimes fit is big, because it has more to do with health markers than our hip measurement.

Again, I fully congratulate this baby step. The rest is an uphill climb the rest of her life. And it gets harder as we age, and I'm an athlete. We constantly have to change up to adapt to our bodies as we age, and as various influences affect our skin suits. As a lifeong bodybuilder, I still have to watch all my intake. Losing it was a breeze. The real journey just started. We need to stop selling the weight loss as if the big AFTER photo is all she wrote. Nope. Talk to us in thirty years.