I love this forum! Perpetual reality check.

Does anyone else here remember the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR)? Is it still going on? In about 2001, I was excited about maintaining my 50lb weight loss for five years, and dutifully sent in my Food Diary. This was just before I gave up on calorie-counting and went full throttle to Atkins. I received one follow-up diary questionnaire, which was so biased against my actual way of eating I couldn't even answer it. NEVER was my sustainable success on LC included in subsequent reports on this study.

Many of us here actually CAN report every morsel we've eaten for months, because we keep detailed diaries here or in Fitday (or on some App) as a helpful strategy. But really. Who does that in the real world?

Been there, done that. No thank you.