Let’s Bring This Blog Back to Life
As a lawyer, I quickly learned a hard truth: it is incredibly difficult to be entirely honest when you are working for someone else. Also, when you’re in the middle of training, it’s a great way to endanger your eventual credentialing. It is even harder when you have strong, evidence-informed opinions on a systemic issue, but you lack the specific credentials required to be taken seriously as an expert.
Years ago, when I first started this blog to document my own massive weight loss, the questions started pouring in. People wanted advice. They wanted the ruthless, pragmatic truth about how to actually beat their biology. And quite frankly, I didn’t think it was responsible or professionally wise for me to answer them. “Lawyer” is simply the wrong credential for metabolic counseling, and I had barely reached the point where I had completed my own desired weight loss.
I knew from my time in the courtroom that if you want to have a legitimate shot at fixing a broken system, you have to acquire the exact right letters after your name.
So, I did the only sensible thing.
I took two years of pre-med courses, went through four years of medical school, and completed one grueling years of residency and two more years after that.
Now, slightly sooner than expected, I am done with my residency training. I am Board Eligible in Preventive Medicine, and I am finally ready to bring this blog back to life. Moving forward, I’ll be sharing my unvarnished thoughts not just as someone who has fought the biological war of severe weight loss, but as a physician.
So, what happened while I was away?
The Maintenance Reality Check: Along the way, I regained some weight, and I had to fight to lose it back. I am grateful for that maintenance journey. It really expanded my understanding of the issue. Serious tip for maintenance: do not go to medical school. Translate this to any all-consuming life change: executive function is a precious commodity. I used to think living at the “finish line” would be the easy part; it is not. Maintaining weight loss can require a completely different, highly rigid set of biological and behavioral skills.
The GLP-1 Revolution: The medical landscape has fundamentally shifted. The new GLP-1 medications are absolute game-changers that I believe will radically change the landscape of weight loss and maintenance.
The “Permanent Fix” Myth: Obesity is a chronic, lifelong propensity. Anyone on the internet peddling a “permanent, easy fix” or telling you that you can reliably cure severe metabolic resistance with a temporary, moderate diet desperately needs to read the literature.
It is time to start telling the truth about what it actually may take to win this fight. Welcome back.