The latest weight loss craze involving medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro is based on a hormone that reduces appetite. (GLP 1) Injections of this hormone cost $15,000 a year and when you stop the medication, it no longer reduces your appetite. Your copay may be nowhere near that number, but someone is paying for the drug. Very expensive drugs are a big reason that health insurance is becoming unaffordable, and your deductibles are increasing.
I just received this question from a reader. Is there anything besides diet that will increase your leptin level? Here is my answer. This is the funny thing about it. Your have been around skinny young women who eat a saucerful of food and say " I am so full that I can't eat another bite!" Crazy. Right? Their leptin system is working perfectly. It is low when they are fasting. It goes up when they eat something and it tells them they have had enough to eat..Here is the key fact. Leptin levels increase in proportion to the percentage of body fat and then we become resistant to leptin effects. It no longer tells us we are full. In addition, some foods like fructose which is extremely high in in juices and soft drinks make us leptin resistant with minimal body fat. That is why real, whole food is the path to permanent weight loss. It is not a matter of achieving a higher leptin level, it is a matter of restoring leptin sensitivity.
Mmmmm!. Onions, Carrots, Celery, Italian Seasoning, Black Pepper, Olive Oil, Red Pepper Flakes. So delicious!! I can just about smell stir-frying onions (probably not very healthy - but delicious. (I skipped the chickens - I let them live and give me eggs.)
Thanks Elsa. Eating good whole food can be delicious and easy. It results in a weight loss of a pound or two a month. It is sustainable. Prep time is very short
Absolutely. I weighed 307 in 1990. I got there by eating fast, processed, and soul food. Most southerners eat soul food when they are not eating fast or processed food. Most of the time since, I have eaten real whole food. When I do it regularly I lose a pound or two a month--even now when I am elderly. I have lost 70 pounds and it has stayed off. I am highly confident I will never gain substantial weight again. It is so easy. I eat as much as I want. I don't need to be hungry. It is a safe, inexpensive, painless path to permanent, healthy weight loss.
I just received this question from a reader. Is there anything besides diet that will increase your leptin level? Here is my answer. This is the funny thing about it. Your have been around skinny young women who eat a saucerful of food and say " I am so full that I can't eat another bite!" Crazy. Right? Their leptin system is working perfectly. It is low when they are fasting. It goes up when they eat something and it tells them they have had enough to eat..Here is the key fact. Leptin levels increase in proportion to the percentage of body fat and then we become resistant to leptin effects. It no longer tells us we are full. In addition, some foods like fructose which is extremely high in in juices and soft drinks make us leptin resistant with minimal body fat. That is why real, whole food is the path to permanent weight loss. It is not a matter of achieving a higher leptin level, it is a matter of restoring leptin sensitivity.
Mmmmm!. Onions, Carrots, Celery, Italian Seasoning, Black Pepper, Olive Oil, Red Pepper Flakes. So delicious!! I can just about smell stir-frying onions (probably not very healthy - but delicious. (I skipped the chickens - I let them live and give me eggs.)
Thanks Elsa. Eating good whole food can be delicious and easy. It results in a weight loss of a pound or two a month. It is sustainable. Prep time is very short
It's also something to maintain long term - with no more weight loss, when you're at a good weight.
Absolutely. I weighed 307 in 1990. I got there by eating fast, processed, and soul food. Most southerners eat soul food when they are not eating fast or processed food. Most of the time since, I have eaten real whole food. When I do it regularly I lose a pound or two a month--even now when I am elderly. I have lost 70 pounds and it has stayed off. I am highly confident I will never gain substantial weight again. It is so easy. I eat as much as I want. I don't need to be hungry. It is a safe, inexpensive, painless path to permanent, healthy weight loss.
Agreed!