Comment by drewcrawford

> Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.

Of course there is: http://www.nwcr.ws/Research/published%20research.htm.

Here's a good question: other than the fact that these people lost weight, what is identifiably unusual about them?