Hormones Linked to Weight Gain After Dieting

SUMMARY: Putting on pounds after significant weight loss is the bane of most dieters, but a hormone may be the culprit in slowing metabolism and weight gain, not lack of willpower.
Interesting read with regard to the why of regain.

 LOL  funny you should post this.  I've been sitting here arguing with myself over having WLS.  I've always thought that the body is simply amazing in the way it performs.  One of my biggest things with having the surgery, was thinking....God made my insides this way for a REASON.  Who the devil am I to mess with THAT?  I know it sounds silly, but I've always went by the rule, "if it aint broke..don't fix it".  Yeah...I realize something has to be broke in order for me to weigh this much and be unhealthy.  Still...the article kind of puts it into perspective for me....LIFE itself has changed.  We are no longer lean hunters that burn fat as fast as we eat it.

Nice article, and it actually helped with my thinking....

 Good morning, Twyla,

I am a Christian and I try and consider God first in everything I do.  I also wondered whether messing up my God-given anatomy was a bad idea.  

This is where I am at with it all.  In Matthew chapter 5, the Bible talks about eyes and hands offending you and that it is better to cast them from you if they cause you to sin.  (hugely paraphrasing)  Well, that's what I was doing with my weight.  Every day I obsessed about how to lose weight, what I was going to or not going to eat, exercising, what life would be like when I lost all my weight, etc.  I spent a lot more time devoted to weight related things than I did to pleasing and serving my God.  

By getting the DS, I have found that the obsessing and pressure is gone.  I do not spend all my time "worshipping" food/diet/over-exercising anymore.  I just eat until I'm full in a protein forward kind of way, take vitamins and get labs pulled twice a year.  My weight is pretty much stable, maybe a 5 pound range.

I hope this helps you with your struggle.  I'm off to work!  Have a great day!

I appreciate your post.  So nice and balanced.  Really.  I, too, spent way too much time on weight related things (due to a messed-up metabolism).  Now there is time to focus on more important stuff (when I'm not goofing off on the internet )

 Why thank you.

 My DS did take away the constant fear of failure and the constant hunger.  I'm glad you can relate.