Weigh in video. She is blaming her failure on being vegan. You've got to be kidding me. How is her conclusion that it's the veganism that is the issue? She is much more stupid than I gave her credit for.
ETA: She claims to have read an article that said if you lose weight naturally you have a 1 - 2% chance of keeping it off in the long run, but that if you get WLS then there's a 90% chance of keeping the weight off.
Also this:
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Chantal knows veganism has nothing to do with her weight gain or lack of loss. She's an addict. Addicts make excuses in order to continue with their substance abuse. Compulsive shoppers are buying early for Christmas or because this sale is too good to pass up. Most opiate addicts have the worst stomach/back/leg pain ever experienced and justify every pill. Every alcoholic had just two drinks, officer, and besides, they only drink beer now!
At this point Chantal knows, really knows, about as much about dieting as the sort of nutritionist who is certified to work at gyms. Not dietician level but she knows how many kilocalories equals a pound of body fat. She probably knows the calorie and fat count in all her favorite foods. Lack of info or stupidity is not the problem. She's not a Slaton. She's not some pig ignorant half-wit who genuinely doesn't know fried chickpeas and greasy naan is no different than the equivalent mass of food from Burger King. She's not even as stupid as AmberLynn. She knows exactly what she is doing because it is the ruse she engages in to continue to binge while courting "you go girl" comments from insipid enablers (while deleting more critical comments).
Chantal ricochets from one stupid fad diet or rational eating plan to the next because each one enables her to continue with the fiction that she wants to lose weight while maintaining her binge eating. If she goes keto it won't be any better. Keto permits a high fat, moderate protein, low carb, low sugar intake that many find far more sating than traditional salad-heavy, low fat yogurt/cottage cheese-style diets. But you still have to be conscious of how much you are eating. Chantal will eat a bucket of chicken followed by ice cream for a single meal and consider herself to be on a ketogenic diet. And in two months she'll say it didn't work and she will toss the keto diet in favor of the all french fry diet or some such nonsense.
Also, I hope that if Chantal is reading here she sees that she really needs to ignore all the statistics about who loses weight and how long they keep it off. There are dozens of different ways information about weight loss is gathered and the types of patient/participant data varies from casual dieters who were never overweight but wanted to shift ten pounds because they felt they looked better to the frightening human landslides seen on My 600 Pound Life. The National Weight Control Registry puts the number of successful weight loss candidates around 10% of those who lose weight and keep it off for a year and even that relatively generous statistic - higher than most - is useless.
Consider this: Say a super morbidly obese woman loses 250 pounds. She begins at 380 and ends her weight loss at 130. A year or two later she's gained back 50 pounds but that is all she gains back for the rest of her life. She remains 200 pounds lighter, around 180 consistently, until her heart stops due to old age. Many studies consider her a weight loss failure because she failed to keep off all the weight she initially lost. But she weighs 180, she's saved her knees and back, she can exercise and travel with ease, she reversed diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and she can buy clothes anywhere she wants. This person is in all the statistics Chantal and those like her use to justify failure.
