This may very well be the greatest lie a group of people has ever told to themselves or other people, but apparently, there is a movement out there where people who once struggled with their weight loss are now "embracing" their non-weight loss and encouraging behaviors that make them gain weight.

I tweeted this link from the New York Times earlier today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/health/nutrition/16skin.html?_r=1

Basically, after years of following diets and regulating what they ate, these people, as advised by their therapists, gave up trying to lose weight and ate everything and did everything they would not do while trying to lose weight.

While the airy lifestyle of not caring or worrying about losing weight at all times does seem like somewhat of a vacation, I cannot see how it would even be possible to one day wake up and not only not care, but the extreme opposite.

I wonder whether these people will decide, when they are heavier, that this was not the right choice for them? But, at the same time, perhaps it is the right choice because they were able to free their minds of the constant worry about their weight.

What do you think? Is embracing your weight mere acceptance, or just an excuse for those who are tired of trying?