What's sad is it could have been something useful.  Focus on living healthy at any size instead of some fad diet and the weight loss will come.  We have the ridiculous statistics about how many diets fail because diets don't teach people to live well, thus they go back to doing whatever they were doing that made them fat in the first place. This is why we don't give partial credit for trying to lose weight, because if you're really trying then you won't be fat for long. Of course, fatties being fatties, they have made it into "I can just be healthy at 600 pounds because I say I am healthy!"