I Wish Skinny People Would Shut Up About D&E!

When I was 300 lb, I used to poke at skinny people on forums that acted like they were experts on diets and exercize (D&E), and since they are thin, they must be right...

Not.

If you want to understand diets and weight problems, the last person you need advice from is someone who doesn't have the problem or understand it!

I don't ask tall people for data on how they got tall. They don't know, but you might find some that think so.

I know people mean well, but sometimes I wish skinny people would just shut up.

I guess everyone likes to dispense the medicine they know. If you are thin and healthy and you got that way by running and eating rice cakes and drinking lemon water, that's nice. For all we know you could be just as thin on Snickers and Cokes..

I know D&E works for most people and don't need to hear it endlessly when it doesn't. It doesn't help.

Weight is too complicated to be understood by people that haven't had to fight to keep their body in shape. You can't prescribe medicine just by looking at someone, why try and prescribe a diet just because you see pounds?

Just an example..thanks to years of being a hormone wreck, one of my list to work off last year was "insulin resistance," a condition where calorie counting math changes. This is something no one seems to get unless you have to fight it yourself. This is when your body starts picking and chosing what food to burn and what to store. Fast burning carbs go first, but the rest stays in your system. non-carb food you eat just stays in your bloodstream, running blood chemistry whacky and piling up triglcerides to high levels. Now is the time skinny "experts" need to back off.

"Just go exersize, it ALWAYS works..."

Maybe not. Take your 300 lb friend with insulin resistance out jogging every day, and they will become worn down and feel bad after excersize(burning carbs only), they eat more, and make it even worse! It's like put a gallon of fuel in, burn a quart, and put in another gallon... It adds and adds. If your body were an engine, it would have incomplete combustion. The extra trigycerides and other junk in your blood that you are not burning displaces oxygen you need to exercise, and as your program progresses, this gets worse.

Not knowing any of this, I was once determined to work the weight of with motocross, a very strenuous activity. I rode and rode with a pro when he trained, and ate a low fat diet (prescribed by a skinny expert). After 6 months, I lost zero lbs, and freaked out my local dr because triglycerides were 16 times over the high limit. Great, all that riding and sweating just turned my blood into red oil.

You can get insulin resistance (and a lot of similar syndromes) from weight, and a high carb diet, or even a strict low-fat diet (probably a skinny person's bad idea), but it's not a case where you just go in reverse and it goes away. Now chemistry has changed and you have to work with it and understand it.

When I was huge and a dr told me I had this condition, it seemed like good news. Now at last I could work from something besides worthless drivel fron nutritionalists. It was still hard to work with, because it described what was happening, but it didn't explain it. Going with low-carb eating made me feel better, but the weight stayed...still something missing.

As it turned out, the condition was really set deep, traced to two real problems that have nothing to do with diet and exercise at all.

So I lost 120 lb sitting on my can. Take that skinny people!