Lucy, I really hope that there can be a softening of the defensiveness that is apparent in the critique of your work. The stakes are so high. I worry that dieticians and psychologists (my discipline) are acting to perpetuate the failed interventions around prescribing weight loss – with the “opportunities” for being seen as the “weight loss experts.” There is nothing that will be worse for our professions than to forget the powerfully helpful things we know how to do to support human health, and instead lose our vision in the glare of the weight loss project. Thank you for sending them our review article that just appeared in the Journal of Obesity – maybe we can all move forward together one of these days!