I am not having a problem with my gradual weight loss, but I saw a few posts on another forum where someone was talking about losing a bunch of weight and it sparked my incredulous nature.
I have a question, and I am wondering if anyone has an answer as to "why" this happens.
If you think about it logically, this doesn't make sense.
I was asking a woman who used to be 300 pounds, who is now 165 pounds after gastric bypass surgery, if it was a problem of self control.
She said she can't eat certain foods, but said nothing about self control. She said her "system" stopped working, they tried different diets and exercise, and prescribed pills but nothing worked - but the surgery did work.
What I have a hard time understanding is this:
Your stomach sends a signal to your brain when it gets to a certain capacity, to let you know you are "full".
With gastric bypass, your capacity is made to be less.
You feel full sooner because of this, so you are eating less per meal, but need to eat more often during the day. You eat less calories per day, NOT by your choice, but it is because of what your stomach and brain will allow.
Before the surgery, you could pack your stomach to full with 500-1500 calories per meal, easily - it's not what you SHOULD do, but it's easily possible per capacity. Do that for 3 meals a day and wash it down with sugary soda and see what happens.
Now, with a smaller stomach, you would be lucky to be able to put 150-250 calories in your stomach per meal. You do this 4-6x a day, and you are still in the right zone of "enough required calories for the day, but the right amount for you to LOSE weight", even under that needed caloric intake for the day sometimes.
You STILL need to eat X amount of calories per day for your body to function properly. You need more than that minimum to "lose" weight, and even more than that to maintain your weight.
I'm not understanding what is different.
Is it eating the same amount of food throughout the day in small amounts that kickstarts your metabolism? Do you think she was lying, and eating garbage food on the sly? [cheating on the diet?] Using the surgery as a cheaters tool for weight loss?
It is really starting to sound like "forced self control" to me. I have a little brother who claimed he "just couldn't lose weight, no matter what!"
Weight Watchers, unopened in the cupboard
Eating out, junkfood all the time
Unused gym membership
Unused, dusty eliptical in the garage.
In his case, it WAS a case of self control. Is this the case with most people? I tend to believe that MOST cases of diabetes are caused by poor diet and being overweight, not the other way around.
I have a question, and I am wondering if anyone has an answer as to "why" this happens.
If you think about it logically, this doesn't make sense.
I was asking a woman who used to be 300 pounds, who is now 165 pounds after gastric bypass surgery, if it was a problem of self control.
She said she can't eat certain foods, but said nothing about self control. She said her "system" stopped working, they tried different diets and exercise, and prescribed pills but nothing worked - but the surgery did work.
What I have a hard time understanding is this:
Your stomach sends a signal to your brain when it gets to a certain capacity, to let you know you are "full".
With gastric bypass, your capacity is made to be less.
You feel full sooner because of this, so you are eating less per meal, but need to eat more often during the day. You eat less calories per day, NOT by your choice, but it is because of what your stomach and brain will allow.
Before the surgery, you could pack your stomach to full with 500-1500 calories per meal, easily - it's not what you SHOULD do, but it's easily possible per capacity. Do that for 3 meals a day and wash it down with sugary soda and see what happens.
Now, with a smaller stomach, you would be lucky to be able to put 150-250 calories in your stomach per meal. You do this 4-6x a day, and you are still in the right zone of "enough required calories for the day, but the right amount for you to LOSE weight", even under that needed caloric intake for the day sometimes.
You STILL need to eat X amount of calories per day for your body to function properly. You need more than that minimum to "lose" weight, and even more than that to maintain your weight.
I'm not understanding what is different.
Is it eating the same amount of food throughout the day in small amounts that kickstarts your metabolism? Do you think she was lying, and eating garbage food on the sly? [cheating on the diet?] Using the surgery as a cheaters tool for weight loss?
It is really starting to sound like "forced self control" to me. I have a little brother who claimed he "just couldn't lose weight, no matter what!"
Weight Watchers, unopened in the cupboard
Eating out, junkfood all the time
Unused gym membership
Unused, dusty eliptical in the garage.
In his case, it WAS a case of self control. Is this the case with most people? I tend to believe that MOST cases of diabetes are caused by poor diet and being overweight, not the other way around.
