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Four diets work equally

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Four Diets worked Equally

I posted on Dr DB’s blog tonight on this.

His commentaries on weight loss, nutrion, and exercise are of great interest to me. Especially his comments that he hasn’t been successful helping patients who are morbidly obese. I admit I keep looking for a cure on the internet.

Since I am (morbidly obese), and am approaching the deadline I gave myself on obesity surgery (though I may put it off further), I’m very interested in this issue.

I was able to lose 100 pounds during a very stressfree time period in my life. That changed when a good friend of mine was killed — Aubrey Hawkins — I gained the weight back during the weeks we were looking for his killers and during the time I was grieving for Peppermint Patty, a very very special dog.

Unforunately I react to stress by desiring food. I handled it better tonight than many others … I knew I wanted and needed something to eat, and managed to only eat onion soup — not a bad choice, took 1 1/2 units of insulin to cover it.

Anyway, I’m going to look at this information of the next few weeks.

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2 responses to “Four diets work equally”

  1. Dean Esmay Avatar
    Dean Esmay

    There’s simply no question that diet + exercise have, so far, never been shown to be a reliable treatment for morbid obesity. Worse, every time you bulk up, it’s harder to get back down. And it only aggravates your insulin and blood sugar control problems. 🙁
    Jeez. I’m probably not cheering you up. But I will say, if medication helps, take it. And don’t be afraid of the surgery–yes, sometimes people die of it, but at this point the rate of complications is pretty low and the mortality rate is no worse than any other form of abdominal surgery and better than many. It’s not as scary as many people make it out to be. I think public prejudices against the obese drive negative attitudes about gastric bypass surgery, so they hype up the risks and complications in order to emphasize how you “could lose it on your own if you really wanted to.”

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  2. John Anderson Avatar
    John Anderson

    Alex C. added a comment below your over at DB’s pointing to a story about a study involving an “Atkins-style” diet (South Park? Or is that the cartoon?) at the Mayo Clinic – sounds somewhat encouraging.

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