I've had problems with my weight for great part of my life. In high school I went to an all-boys military school where my classmates made fun of me because of my weight. I was overweight, slow and uncoordinated, so I didn’t really participate in any sports and became used to being a spectator.
After I finished college and started working, I continued to gain weight little by little. Not only was I about 40 pounds overweight, but my doctor, who was also a personal friend of mine, warned me that my blood pressure, cholesterol and triglycerides were out of control. He also warned me that I was at the point of developing diabetes.
From there, I sought out professional help and started counting calories. Although I followed the diet exactly and lost about 20 pounds, there was a point where I found myself stuck. Consequently, I ended up feeling discouraged and stopped following it. Within a few months, I gained back all of the weight I had lost, as well as an additional 10 or 12 pounds.
A few months later, I decided to try a vegan diet. I lost weight, but just like with calorie-counting, I found myself stuck, and also very weak. Eventually I stopped following this diet as well.
I continued to make other attempts at losing weight, including exercising. Jogging in particular helped me lose a lot of weight, but I was forced to stop after I injured myself while running. The weight, of course, came back quite rapidly.
My attempts at losing weight at turned into a constant torture. Despite this, I kept trying other methods.
After many failed diets, I decided to acquire a better understanding of the metabolism. My desire to lose weight had almost turned into an obsession, and I wasn’t ready to give up. I studied the subject of the metabolism and everything related to nutrition, digestion and any other topic that could in some way help me understand and solve my problem with obesity. Learning everything I could about this topic became my hobby and only topic of interest outside of my family and work.
I spent at least 8 years reading and researching EVERYTHING I could find about diets, obesity, the metabolism, the biology of the body, cells, digestion and a thousand other related subjects. The search for the causes and solutions to obesity became my main focus in life.
Little by little I was losing weight, almost without realizing it. I lost the extra 40 pounds that I had put on, and my lab tests came back normal. My blood pressure, triglycerides and cholesterol were also all normal.
Aside from losing weight and getting my health back, I realized that acquiring knowledge of so many subjects related to obesity had changed me. I started to see that everything was connected to everything in the human body. I learned that obesity couldn’t be overcome from a limited perspective of the diet alone. Fasting or eating less didn’t necessarily solve the problem of obesity. I also found that there were multiple factors that decrease the metabolism and lead to obesity. It’s not just a matter of food, like a nutritionist might think. I had discovered the METABOLISM.
My friends and acquaintances started to notice my weight loss and began inquiring as to how I did it. At that point, I wrote up a 7-page summary of what I had discovered and gave it to anyone who asked.
Although the summary worked well for many, it ended up bringing up a ton of other doubts and questions with regard to their own weight loss, at which point they’d ask to meet up with me for a personal consultation. Perhaps this happened because the subjects of dieting and the metabolism contain the most failures and disillusions in the world. Most people have tried and failed multiple times at losing weight. Turns out I wasn’t the only one having such a rough time with it!
The subject of obesity and the metabolism is a controversial one. There are millions of different experts with certifications, diplomas, and qualifications that, oddly enough, contradict each other. Consequently, the general public usually ends up confused about the entire subject. While some “experts” insist on reducing calories or eating less, others claim that obesity is a sickness that is treated with medication. Some claim that the only method that works is increasing physical exercise, while those without solutions blame the entire problem on hereditary factors. Overall, a clear solution didn’t exist.
After I had passed out several copies of my summary, I started to get more and more calls, even from a few people that I had never met! Most of them were desperate because they had tried everything and still hadn’t found a solution to their weight problem.
In my own case, I was able to not only see an improvement in my weight and waistline, but in my health. I was done with being fat, tired and weak and instead, turned myself into someone who was healthy, energetic and enthusiastic about life. I had successfully recovered my metabolism and health.
The topics of obesity and the metabolism were a personal problem that I had dealt with for decades. Now they are my life, and fill me with enormous satisfaction after successfully helping thousands of people with the same problem.
