The Arithmetic of Weight Loss
Counseling psychology represent!
Though, still salty we can't bill Medicare independently with a masters. I'll spare everyone else the tangent :P
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
It's highly offensive and it also is dismissive of individuals who suffer with mental illness.
It's dangerous because eating disorders are some of the most fatal mental disorders. BED isn't directly fatal, but it kills you by inches, and the health consequences of it are life-long and severe.
To play devil's advocate, I guess you could make the argument that after a significant period of treatment willpower does play a role. Sort of? It's not really willpower so much as retraining maladaptive cognition and coping skills.
Even then it's more a product of cognition shifting. Willpower has zero to do with the mechanism of compulsive painful overeating to the point of dissonance and dissociation. That's like saying people with PTSD lack willpower to resist crippling anxiety, or people who get sexually assaulted lack willpower to scream loud enough to get rescued.
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
But here you write you lost 80# is 12.5 months. Which is it? Is the 38 on top of the 80? Or did you regain-- for lack of "discipline".
Whatever method you use that helps you lose AND keep it off, kudos. Losing is not the hard part. Keeping it off is.
5'6.5" High weight:337 Lowest weight:193/31 BMI: Goal: 195-205/31-32 BMI
Weight loss is simple when you know these numbers:
1) It takes 150 minutes of cardio per week to lose weight.
2) 3500 calories burned above consumption will burn one pound of fat.
3) Every 500 calories below your BMR will result in one pound of weight loss.
4) The USDA recommends 2000 calories per day of consumption.
Everything else you've ever read or heard is poppy**** I have used these numbers to lose 38 pounds in just 3 1/2 months. I use myfitnesspal.com to track my food and exercise. After that it's just a matter of DISCIPLINE, and THAT my friends is what makes it so hard.
Those numbers are great in theory, but they are not accurate for everyone (and cardio is not needed for weight loss). Weight loss is much more complicated than that.
How many times have you lost weight and then gained it back? That is the problem for most of us here. Surgery gave us a chance to not only lose it, but keep it off.
I do not know anyone who has gone from 454 pounds to a healthy weight and stayed there without surgery. Good luck.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
Could you please clarify how "a couple of friends" constitutes a statistically significant sample size?
Sparklekitty / Julie / Nerdy Little Secret (#42)
Roller derby - cycling - triathlon
VSG 2013, RNY conversion 2019 due to GERD. Trendweight here!
