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Lifestyle treatment alone has modest or little long-term effect on weight loss, particularly in adults, and is often insufficient for sustainable weight maintenance due to biological drivers like hunger.
Do not blame yourself if lifestyle changes alone haven't led to lasting weight loss. The paper confirms that lifestyle treatment often has modest long-term effects due to biological factors like hunger. This is a common challenge, not a personal failure.
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The most common treatment offered has been lifestyle treatment, which has a modest or little long-term effect.
Why this rating
Consistently reported across multiple sections and supported by general clinical consensus cited in the review.
Source
Obesity treatment in adolescents and adults in the era of personalized medicine
Magnus Sundbom et al. · Journal of Internal Medicine · 2024
DOI 10.1111/joim.13816
narrative_reviewCited 13×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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