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"I'm an obesity doctor. I've seen long-term weight loss work. Here's how."
I’m in this registry and long term health study on longer term weight loss and check in twice a year. The real world has its share of success stories too, many of which are collected by the National Weight Control Registry. Established in 1994, the registry is a gathering place for successful losers. To qualify for enrollment, a loser needs to have lost more than 30 pounds and kept that weight off for over a year. Continue reading →
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How Software, Data, and a Hell of a Lot of Work Helped Me Lose 110 pounds in 25 Months
If I kept going at that rate I would reliably be up to 300 pounds by summer. I had cholesterol levels that were not good for anybody — much less for someone like me with a family history that looks like a American Heart Association horror anthology of strokes, heart attacks and emergency artery bypass surgeries. A sleep study I took, that had me wired up like Neo in the first Matrix movie, showed I had “severe” sleep apnea. Continue reading →
