My friend eats five slices of pizza and never gains a pound.

I know it is not earth shattering news to anyone who has struggled with their weight, that some people can seemingly eat anything they want. You may go out for pizza, and your best friend may scarf down three slices, laden with melted cheese and sausage, as well as five beers, and never seem to gain a pound. It feels enormously unfair. But what is really going on, why does this happen?
It turns out that you can feed the exact same foods to five different people, and each person will absorb a different number of calories. The reason for this, interestingly, begins in the intestines, where we each have different “micro biomes” In translation, this means that every person has slightly different bacteria in his or her gut, and right at this level, our individual differences begin: we each absorb different amounts of food. Then, once in the body, we each process food differently. The best way to think about this is that a diabetic processes food entirely differently from a non diabetic; furthermore, there is a huge variation within non diabetics and pre diabetics in terms of how food is processed.
Food metabolism is enormously complex, and our understanding of this science, called bariatric medicine, is changing rapidly. As a physician trained in bariatric medicine, I spend hundreds of hours annually reading and attending lectures by leading scientists in this field; I am always thinking about what is new, and how I can further help my patients.
If you have tried and either failed at losing weight, or regained all the weight you lost, it is because you have been on a diet that is “one size fits all.” Everyone who needs to lose thirty pounds cannot be on the same program, because that would mean every person burns food exactly the same way; which I have explained above, is absolutely incorrect.
If you are ready to join a program where you will learn how to eat real food which you will purchase in your local grocery store,eat three meals a day plus two optional snacks, and most importantly, have a food program designed specifically for you, we invite you to enter our Balance Medical Weight Loss program.

The timing of day that you eat matters. A lot.

Recently a patient asked me an interesting question. Why can’t I move food from my breakfast meal to my lunch meal?

The answer is actually more complex that he imagined. The answer comes in a recent article published from Mass General Hospital. They took a group of woman and fed them about 1400 calories of healthy food on a daily basis. In the first three months the women ate no breakfast, about 300 calories of food for lunch, and then the other 1100 calories for snacks and dinner. In three months they lost on average 7.9 lbs.