RE: Weight loss with bariatric surgery

I cannot believe that an educated professional would say something as far off-base as “Surgical treatment is medically necessary for morbid obesity.” Nothing could be farther from the truth. If you’ve ever interviewed a bariatric surgeon, you know that on average their clients have been on diet after diet after diet for about the past 15 to 20 years. If you understood what dieting does to the body — decreases resting metabolic rate, encourages binging, decreases the percentage of calories the body burns from fat, increases cravings for carbohydrates, encourages the body to make up its energy deficit primarily through gluconeogenesis (burning skeletal muscle to ensure that ALL weight lost during diet is regained - usually plus more, at least it does so in 98 percent of cases, according to the ADA), disrupts thyroid function, lowers core body temperature (meaning even fewer calories are being burned), and worst of all: the creation of the belief inside the diet victim that he or she was the one who failed, when it was the stupid diet that doomed him to fail before he even started. If you understood all of that, you would know that it is the dieting and the encouragement by every “expert” to “eat less, fatty!” that is fueling the growth of our morbidly obese population. We’re telling them to do the very thing that will ensure their long-term failure, and then we turn around and blame them, and then want to cut them open — possibly killing them — to make sure that “those fatties eat less.” It is as simple as teaching the morbidly obese to take control of their metabolisms — eat a lean protein, a veggie, and an unrefined complex carbohydrate (brown rice, oatmeal, sweet potatoes) every three to three and a half hours — getting them to do something to build muscle (resistance training is fantastic for reducing insulin sensitivity too), and moving a little bit. That’s it!! No one got fat by taking a fat pill or by getting a reverse lyposuction proceedure! They did it by eating bad food — or not enough food, or lots of low-fat food (I guess that’s the same thing, anyway) — either not exercising (or doing excessive aerobic exercise), and buying the propaganda so-called weight-loss experts have been feeding them about “the key to weight loss is to eat less and exercise more,” which fails 98 percent of the time.

Another thing — WHO WANTS TO LOSE WEIGHT? NO ONE! People want to lose FAT, and what you do to induce maximum fat loss and weight loss are TWO entirely different things. I’ve got a fantastic paper that I wrote on the subject that I would be happy to e-mail you, if you need more information. There are REAL, effective solutions that don’t require any magic pills or supplements and, best of all, help people feel empowered and in control of their lives and bodies. Don’t sell people short with the quick-fix, dangerous, not very effective long-term weight loss surgery. Empower them to take control of their own bodies.