After reading all the comments and getting a lot more details about Eliezer’s situation and the general responses to SLA, I have a theory:
SLA works by reducing appetite. The majority of the time, if you reduce appetite that causes people to eat less. When they eat less, they usually lose weight.
The problem is that SLA won’t work if that link is broken. If you already weren’t eating when you were hungry, then changing your hunger levels might not change how much you eat, which would result in you eating the same amount or if adding the oil doesn’t reduce that amount you eat slightly more. In Eliezer’s case, he already has so much willpower that he can break the link if he wants to, so SLA didn’t solve the right problem. There are other ways to unlink that don’t involve willpower, as well. For these people, SLA doesn’t work. For another group, the link is severed past X pounds lost so it stops working.
After reading all the comments and getting a lot more details about Eliezer’s situation and the general responses to SLA, I have a theory:
SLA works by reducing appetite. The majority of the time, if you reduce appetite that causes people to eat less. When they eat less, they usually lose weight.
The problem is that SLA won’t work if that link is broken. If you already weren’t eating when you were hungry, then changing your hunger levels might not change how much you eat, which would result in you eating the same amount or if adding the oil doesn’t reduce that amount you eat slightly more. In Eliezer’s case, he already has so much willpower that he can break the link if he wants to, so SLA didn’t solve the right problem. There are other ways to unlink that don’t involve willpower, as well. For these people, SLA doesn’t work. For another group, the link is severed past X pounds lost so it stops working.