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Has anyone questioned the amount of effort they have put into prior diet attempts???? It seems that this medically supervised diet is causing me to call into question if I really have ever tried to lose the weight. I KNOW I have tried, gyms , trainers, diet books and all that. Hell, I even spent a fortune on those dame pre-packaged meals. Is this normal??? Thanks!

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Allo I know is I put in as much effort as I could, and in the end it wasn't enough. Thats where my sense of failure came from... I might lose some, and maintain for a while, but I could not sustain the effort long term.

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You aren't alone. I am 3 months in to my 6 month diet.. I also have questioned myself about not Really having tried. Well... I do know that I have tried...I have succeeded and failed sometimes because I could only sustain whatever rediculous thing I was trying for like 3 months. I would either want to eat normal food or something devestating would happen and the emotional eating took over... Now I'm to the point where I Need a tool to help me be successful and still be normal. I don't want to drink shakes 2 meals a day and take 50 suppliments..or buy cardboard meals that cost a fortune..for the rest of my life..or get perscription diet meds that get recalled after destroying important organs... So if I haven't tried hard enough.. I can live with it, because failure is no longer an option.

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I think so, but then I really considered how much I had put my body through and how long I have been struggling and realized the sleeve is what I needed to help me keep it off. Losing weight isn't as hard for me as keeping it off. I need a little help.

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