I started my weight loss journey at 350lbs. I focused on diet & since my body was in constant pain all I did was walk on a treadmill or an elliptical, slow pace until my body felt good
It took a year to drop 70lbs
As my body felt better, I ramped up the weights, speed, movement
This was the transition point. About 1.5 years in and my body felt good and I stared moving. I had dropped like 70-80 and started ramping up lifting, sprinting, kickboxing
As my body felt good I gravitated to heavier lifting… but again I went from being fat and hungry to NEVER hungry through dietary insight. That was key
I have such dichotomous thoughts when it comes to what’s happened over the past year in medicine.
First, I marvel at industry’s ability to mobilize & put together a truly novel/brilliant vaccine program in minimal time
... What an amazing feat to have the body create the antigen
This could truly pave the way for years of amazing therapeutics if properly tested.
But on the other hand I see the sketchiness & the malice
Mysterious organization like surgisphere literally propping up and disappearing, journals publishing outright fraud, sketchy trials purposefully over-dosing patients with therapeutics for unclear purposes, PCR thresholds...
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We came under heat for having @biolayne on @LCMDPodcast
We were offered money to NOT give him air time
Colleagues were upset b/c of his childish rants, calling MDs & PhDs cowards/clowns, etc
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What I learned from the interview of him, his health coach and a client success story is that his scope is limited.
All he can do is provide education and psychological support.
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Our practice NOT only provides psychological support and education, we also deal with medical issues, lab work, medications, imaging, testing
We truly provide a holistic apprach. We actually SEE lab work results
These are things dietitans and gurus will never be able to do
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Is restricting addictive, unhealthy food the cause of the spiral or our thin idealization, fat shaming, unnecessary weight pressures particularly on our young women... ?
Restricting or limiting harmful things is not the problem.
While dieting in general is associated w/ disordered eating, other psychocial factors like thin idealization & body image seem to be more strongly associated
doi:10.1037/abn0000219
Severe dietary restriction does not induce acutely induce binge eating