I'm a Registered Dietitian and I'm very detail oriented. I love lists, I love budgets, I love writing menus. I used to love filing my taxes by hand, filling out each little individual box on a form. The only reason I stopped was so that I could file online and get my money back faster. I've met other dietitians who are this way. When they taught us how to generalize the calorie content of different food groups in order to create a quick calorie count, I went home and promptly put myself on a diet with a menu plan. I accounted for three meals and a snack and made a lot of my food from scratch. I wasn't always like this. I recall rationalizing my addiction for Dr. Pepper while I was in college. I declared unequivocally that the 150 calories per can was a worthwhile treat each day and I wasn't going to deprive myself, even though I was also working on a weight loss goal. I've gotten into exercise hard core and when it made me hungry, I allowed myself to eat a d...
Put bluntly, successful weight losers are a group of weird people. They eat differently, they exercise differently, they strategize their daily choices around food and exercise differently. Why? Because normal is being overweight. In the United States, almost 75% of men and 60% of women are overweight and obese. It's time to be the weird ones. http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/vast-majority-american-adults-are-overweight-or-obese-and-weight-growing-problem-among Who am I and why do I care? Well, I'm a Registered Dietitian and I work only with people who are preparing for or who have had bariatric surgery. That is, the WEIRDEST of the WEIRD. My patients make the most difficult choices, make the longest term (that is FOREVER) commitment to those changes and reap the greatest reward. The information on this blog is based on my experience with successful behavior changes for bariatrics, my personal weight loss - and my other personal journey - getting out of debt. If ...