Had 2 seperate doctors tell me you can't lose weight...

If you are diabetic. Basically their explination was that as long as your post perandial and fasting sugars were high it was impossible. Being the ornery contrarian I am I thought to myself "Horseshit!!" If I didn't eat for 6 months and only drank water and took vitamins I would still be 300 lbs???

I think what they mean is the average person WONT do what's needed to lose weight. They look at overall statistics and say that it is physically and psychologically very improbable that people in general will ever totally revamp their lifestyles. So medicinal management is the only real long term solution.

I have generally fit that description my whole life, I let myself get stuck in ruts and pretty much stay there.

However I have dropped a tad over 12 lbs. My weight was 308.8. I am 296 dead nuts right now. My goal is 190 by 3-17-2011. Right now I'm doing Lyle macdonalds version of a protien sparing modified fast. It sucks green monkey nuts, but I've only got 11 more weeks to go. If I can't make it through 11 tough weeks how am I ever going to adopt a truly healthy and moderate life in the long term??

I'm not making any promises though. I generally follow a nutrition program for about 2 weeks and screw it up.
So in that regards the dogs are right.