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Weight Loss and Maintenance: Skiing as Useful Metaphor
Weight loss is down-hill skiing. It requires a certain skill set and, losing more than 60 pounds, I was on nobody’s bunny slope. In down-hill skiing people cheer you on; you get regular compliments as...
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More on Binges: A Digression
Frequently I compare weight loss to down-hill skiing, a difficult skill set but not nearly as challenging as cross-country skiing, which is maintenance. On a cross-country trek, you have obstacles and...
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Holiday Treats: Another Digression (prompted by Halloween)
A decade and a half ago, my grandmother-in-law hosted a gathering of extended family. Throughout dinner, she kept pushing seconds, thirds. If you said “no, thank you,” she pushed harder and...
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Thoughts on a Peptide YY Study (with a digression on the “N” word)
I read a comment yesterday from a woman who has lost 100 pounds, yet she’s frustrated and feels betrayed by her own body. I understand that frustration. She devotes great time and effort to weight...
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Why?
The hardest question I have to answer, and it gets asked a lot, is “Why do you do this?” Good question. Why do I maintain a radical amount of weight loss? It’s hard. It’s lonely. I haven’t...
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It’s All Endocrine
. . . and semantics. I stand with my hand on the refrigerator door. I’ve stood here hundreds of times. Motionless except for my breathing. Hoping for the phone to ring and pull me away, or for the...
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Intuitive Eating: Part I
To understand how I have modified (ruthlessly twisted and manipulated?) intuitive eating, which I will share with you after Christmas, you must first know what it is. Here is a succinct summary, which...
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What is Maintenance? And Why I Like my “Job” Metaphor
What is maintenance? It seems a simple, seemingly obvious, question. Ali asked it in the last post’s comment section. At first I was taken aback, because I thought I’d already answered it with my...
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The Plate
It’s the topic of the day (or recent bygone days) at many blogs and websites: The new US dietary guidelines replacing the old Pyramid, aka “My Plate.” Knowing full well that I’m howling in the wind, I...
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An Open Letter to Weight-Management Scientists
Dear Scientist Friends: Consider this a personal invitation to test a theory, especially if your area of expertise is endocrine and/or you have a personal interest in exercise physiology and weight...
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