World’s Greatest Weight Loss: The Truth That Diet Gurus Don't Want You To Know

My patients are the strong ones, no question. They aren’t like all the other people that come out, try another diet in a long line-up of repeated diets, fail, and then surrender to the claim that it doesn’t matter. My patients aren’t willing to pretend it doesn’t matter. They are the ones determined to go out and find a better answer, a different strategy.If you are thumbing through this book in a bookstore or browsing through it online, there is probably one main reason: Whatever you have done in the past to gain control over your weight has not worked. Maybe it worked for a while, but nothing you have tried resulted in long-term success. That is why I wrote this book.The people who walk in my door have tried hard and still failed. The fact that they’ve tried and failed does not represent weakness, it shows strength. To admit that they need help and then to go out and get it takes a lot of strength. Giving up, now that’s weakness.The reality is, most books about dieting will doom you to failure. They give you rules to follow that, once broken, make you feel like a cheater. The underlying problem is that these rules rarely take into consideration how people really want to live, they are outside most people’s needs and habits. That’s not what I do in my clinic and that’s not the purpose of this book.Diet alone is never the answer to lasting weight loss. Nor are medications or even surgery. If you’re reading this book you’ve already figured that out. You know you need to find a different strategy and you’re actively looking for one. What I’m here to tell you is that the best option for you might be surgery. Weight-loss surgery is not the answer for everyone and it’s certainly not the only solution. It takes effort and is definitely not the easy way out. But, for those struggling with obesity and not finding success using other methods, surgery may be your best answer.“It’s not so much that a person wins, but that they refuse to lose that results in success”Brian Quebbemann, M.D.