For many years I gained weight strictly due to being lazy and eating poorly. But for the last several years, I have been driving myself crazy because I feel like I have been doing everything I should be doing in terms of eating the right foods (Whole30 and Paleo) and exercising intensely (Obstacle Course Racing and Weight Training) and nothing worked for weight loss. I have often felt like my body and brain were working against my heart and preventing me from achieving what I wanted.

In my ongoing research, I recently found another Bariatric Surgeon that post his bariatric videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrMatthewWeiner

I found his Informational Seminar video to be much more informative than any other I attended during my search for a local surgeon.

One point in particular is the slide I've attached to this post. The stats he shows in this slide are my exact stats. His explanation here is that to gain 100lbs over a 20-year period, a woman only has to eat an average of 50 additional calories per day. Which is basically nothing.

This takes into consideration pregnancy weight gain, weight loss, and weight regain over this time period. He affirms that significant weight gain from such a low number of additional calories means that there is actually something else going on besides just eating more calories than you burn. And as many of us suspect, it is due to hormonal and metabolic changes because of both age and changes that occur from diets you go on.

This alone lifted a huge weight off my shoulders. Because I am not crazy after all, my brain and body were working against me. And surgery can help me get back to where I want to be. It further confirms my decision to have this surgery and use it merely as one tool in my arsenal to regain my health!

I wanted to share this for anyone else has felt like they were crazy and wondered endlessly why diet and exercised worked from everyone else but you...

13 minutes ago, Ylime said:

This takes into consideration pregnancy weight gain, weight loss, and weight regain over this time period. He affirms that significant weight gain from such a low number of additional calories means that there is actually something else going on besides just eating more calories than you burn. And as many of us suspect, it is due to hormonal and metabolic changes because of both age and changes that occur from diets you go on.

This slide seems to indicate the opposite conclusion. Namely that gaining and losing weight is based exactly on calories in vs calories out. For example an excess 50 calories per day adds up to over 5 pounds in a year (50 x 365 / 3500). That isn't to say that our hormones don't play a part in how much we eat or how much we burn at rest, but just as a 50 calorie surplus is 5 pounds gained a 50 calorie deficit is 5 pounds lost.

10 minutes ago, aNYCdb said:

This slide seems to indicate the opposite conclusion. Namely that gaining and losing weight is based exactly on calories in vs calories out. For example an excess 50 calories per day adds up to over 5 pounds in a year (50 x 365 / 3500). That isn't to say that our hormones don't play a part in how much we eat or how much we burn at rest, but just as a 50 calorie surplus is 5 pounds gained a 50 calorie deficit is 5 pounds lost.

Well right that is the simple math. But his explanation is that hormones and metabolism don't allow people to just lose those 5lbs by just eating less and exercising, thus why so many doctors say eating less and moving more doesn't always work and so many people need WLS to achieve their goals.

Edited April 23, 20188 yr by Ylime

6 minutes ago, Ylime said:

Well right that is the simple math. But his explanation is that hormones and metabolism don't allow people to just lose those 5lbs by just eating less and exercising, thus why so many doctors say eating less and moving more doesn't always work and so many people need WLS to achieve their goals.

That's nonsense, if eating less didn't cause you to lose weight Gastric Sleeve would be completely ineffective. WLS doesn't boost you metabolism it just makes it easier to eat less. It's just that eating less is can be hard to do consistently and WLS helps make it a bit easier.

Many of us have tried multiple types of diets that did not work or could not maintain long term. Enjoy your research. There is so much information out there.