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Originally Posted by buggin_out
Most fat people aren't that way because they overeat. Let me clarify; I'm not saying that some fat people don't overeat, but that that isn't the reason for their fat in most cases. After all, plenty of thin people over overeat all the time. The difference between the thin overeater and the fat one is not what they're eating, but the way they're processing it.
Thin overeaters are less efficient at energy (calorie) storage than fat overeaters.
Outside of being extremely diligent about diet and exercise every day of their lives, the key to people who are prone to fatness becoming and maintaining thinness isn't food restriction via surgery, but discovering a way to cause a fat person's body to process food like a thin person's body.
It simply doesn't matter how little food you take in after you've been cut, the way the calories are processed will still remain the same as they do with anyone prone to fatness.
This is why practically everyone who gets that surgery ends up regaining most or all of their weight over a long enough time line.
I have a billion other reasons why I think bariatric surgery is unwise, but I'll stop here.
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Hmmmmm... ok. I think that some (I might even say many) who have bariatric surgery don't lose "enough" (whatever that is) and many regain some or most of their weight. BUT many also have success. I've met plenty of people whose lives turned around after the surgery.
The main difference I see in the people who have long-term success is that they changed their lives. They didn't break their diet rules, they didn't restretch their stomachs, and they became much more active.
Were they more active because they lost weight and can move more easily / lessened their comorbidities, or did the activity lead to more weight loss? Probably an interaction of the two.
The ones who were more successful also changed their mental attitudes, through therapy and self-examination and an ongoing committment to make this life change. The ones who felt it was a magic cure are the ones who I've seen struggle the most.
My "issue" with surgery is that lifestyle change isn't emphasized enough. People who DO have great success (with surgery and lifestyle change) might have achieved the same results without risky invasive surgery if they'd simply stuck to the changes they made anyway along with the surgery.
So... having said all that - I'm very curious as to HOW you feel the body processes calories differently and thus dooms people to failure. What is this "different" process? How do thin people who eat a lot digest, store and utilize energy differently than fat people? How do you account for those who do lose weight and maintain their loss, either through diet/exercise/lifestyle changes or bariatric surgery?
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Originally Posted by russ
I have seen no systematic evidence to support what you have written. If you believe what you have written to be the case, then I would appreciate if you could post references from indexed scientific journals to support your contention, as just saying it doesn't make it so.
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