My doctor told me that there is some enzyme or something?? That increases after surgery, he said they still haven't discovered why. I inquired that isnt it just the fewer intake of calories and he insisted they discovered the metabolism speeds up...Any one hear of this?

My doctor told me that there is some enzyme or something?? That increases after surgery, he said they still haven't discovered why. I inquired that isnt it just the fewer intake of calories and he insisted they discovered the metabolism speeds up...Any one hear of this?

First I've heard of it, but if it does, that's GREAT with me.

Nope...... I've never heard of it, but after having the surgery and when you start losing weight and you're able to do more, I imagine it SEEMS like your metabolism speeds up because you are eating less calories and everyone I've talked to are DOING more physically...... But if it does.. I'm all for it too!!!

My doctor told me that there is some enzyme or something?? That increases after surgery, he said they still haven't discovered why. I inquired that isnt it just the fewer intake of calories and he insisted they discovered the metabolism speeds up...Any one hear of this?

GOOD, cause heavens knows I need my metabolism to speed up big time!!!:cursing:

Nope...... I've never heard of it, but after having the surgery and when you start losing weight and you're able to do more, I imagine it SEEMS like your metabolism speeds up because you are eating less calories and everyone I've talked to are DOING more physically...... But if it does.. I'm all for it too!!!

Your doing really well Chancie! Keep up the good work!

I've never heard of that. But I do know that being in ketosis does seem to give people more energy. And we are definitely in ketosis if we are following the diet properly. Maybe that is what he meant?

Sad to say, if you lose weight by restricting calories, there's only one direction your metabolism will head in and that's DOWN.

You have to do your best to counteract it - exercise and build muscle - but the fact is that your lighter body not only needs less to maintain it, so you have to forever and ever eat less than you did, but your body also gets used to an artificially lower calorie level and learns to run very efficiently on that.

I think I did the right things - I lost on 1500 calories or so, I ran lots and I did do minimal strength training. I still do those same things to maintain - same amount of food, same amount of exercise. What caused me to lose 100lb ago is now what I have to do to maintain. And when I look at the charts, any 5ft 10, 150lb woman doing my level of activity should be eating over 2,500 calories a day. I can promise if I ate more than 1800 to 2000 on a consistent basis, I'd gain pretty quickly. I cant get away with eating 2,500!!!

I think this is a good scholarly article to answer the question in this topic:

http://ceaccp.oxfordjournals.org/content/4/5/144.full

Hope this helps.