The BIGGEST Reason Obese People CAN'T Lose Weight

Why can't some obese people lose weight? Many overweight people have built up resistance to a hormone called leptin. Fat cells in your body make leptin, and leptin tells your body when you have enough stores of fat, decreasing your appetite.

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[MiaJohnson-xm]

Mike, please consider reading the book Woman’s weight loss secrets: the unspoken truth, reading that book was the best thing I ever did

[cbrown]

I did a sugar fast, and indirectly cut back on processed foods. The immediate weight loss and disappearance of inflammation after just two weeks was amazing.

[yearight]

My ex wife was a slender 38 year old woman who had a kid. When we lived together I realized that the reason she stayed thin was because she was on a very specific eating schedule, which she was unknowingly teaching her son. Just eat at 7 AM, eat at 11 AM and then eat at 5:30 PM. There wasn't much sugar in their diet and they have a physical lifestyle. Once we got married I used to keep sweets in the house. I started to notice my slender 38 year old wife start to gain weight as a result of her inability to control herself around sweets. Made me realize, growing up with the right people in the house teaching you a proper eating schedule and the right kinds of foods can keep a person slim, and if you grew up with the wrong parents, you're gonna have a hell of a time. And society is not kind to people with a weight problem.

[Jasmadae]

I went from 211 lbs to 144 lbs in a span of 14 months(I am a 5’4” female). I ate a high protein, lower carb (Not keto), low sugar and higher fiber diet. I feel full a lot and have reversed my cholesterol levels, my kidneys are functioning optimally, and nowhere close to being prediabetic.

[ginay]

No mention of emotional eating, sedentary life style, or learned behaviors. Just a commercial for a supposed silver bullet drug

[pc]

I lost over 70 pounds in 9 months by walking 10, 000 steps per day and cut back on sodas and sweet snacks and drink lots of H2O 💦 !
It’s mostly about changing your diet and getting lots of exercise 💪🏽

[mrothk]

Last February I was 425 lbs. My doctor told me it would not be possible to lose enough weight without surgery. A year later I am 295 lbs, and still losing, although slower. I did it without exercise either, though I want to start adding in trips to the gym this year. I found that a vegan mostly whole food diet (I still use oils sparingly, but few to no processed carbs) allows me to eat until fulfillment and stay in a deficit.

[Eveningkiss]

One thing that doesn't get discussed a lot is SLEEP. I work night shift in a hospital several times a week. We night shifters have a gard time keeping weight down because a. No set sleep schedule or lack of adequate sleep. B. We usually drink lots of coffee. C. We are more likely to have high calorie carbs around like cookies, cupcakes, candy or even pizza. I am not saying it is impossible to stay thin, and I have managed to drop a good amount of weight myself by really REALLY strict calorie counting but not being able to get a solid 7hrs (usually I get 5) really does hurt any weight loss.

[DragunBreath]

Food addiction is just like any other addiction, with the exception that you have to eat to live. That makes it extremely difficult in comparison to something you could just quit doing.

[SHurd-rcgo]

Thank you, Dr Mike. I'm still 87 years old, still 130lbs.
IF: 14/10. Still housebound, walk around doing chores. Can't do much due to 45 years of rheumatoid arthritis, but have been off all those RA drugs for many years.
Long-lived females on both sides of my family, and come from a clean, clean area, garden-grown food, wild protein.
We'll see.
Thanks, Doctor.

[Kneephry]

I have done intermittent fasting for a year and lost almost no weight. It's extremely difficult to give up processed food but I have tried to improve on that as well. Those who have not been overweight for several years can't understand how hard your body fights to retain weight. Your metabolism slows every time you cut calories, your hunger and cravings increase intensely every time you try to eat fewer calories or healthier food and you get increasingly tired every time you try to increase exercise- and thus the weight rebounds.

[meggyloves]

I’ve lost almost 90lbs in the last two years and everyone asks if I’m on a diet, I’m not I made lifestyle changes. Changes that will allow me to continue to maintain my new weight 🎉

[xfortunesquex]

Thank you so much for this video. I am no longer obese, but it's a big issue in my family. I also see folks in my fibromyalgia support group struggling so hard with obesity, and they get treated so terribly by doctors. It's refreshing to see this information out there, from a real doctor. I hope this new medication will become more available and covered by insurance, so people can have more hope that things can change. It was an immense struggle for me to lose weight, keep it off, and form semi-healthy habits. I'd love for others to not have to fight so hard and beat themselves up over "mistakes".

[diesel_dawg]

I'm obese and the only one to blame for it is ME. I hate when I hear stories of people suing/trying to sue fast food companies etc. saying they were to blame. My weight is MY fault because I love eating unhealthy food and get lazy when it comes to cooking.
I'm currently trying out intermittent fasting, and - with the exception of a single bar of chocolate - haven't eaten biscuits (cookies), crisps/chips, candy and chocolate for around 3 weeks.

[becasnowflake]

I’ve been on Wegovy for about 5 months and I’m down 27 lbs. I was very active before. I would hike 5x a week and I didn’t eat too much process foods yet I didn’t lose weight. If anything I was gaining weight slowly every year. I became pregnant with twins and in my pregnancy I lost weight instead and f gaining. My doctor told me that in his 35 years of practice I was the first pregnant women with twins to actually lose weight instead of gaining more. The only difference was my hormones. Now that im on Wegovy i have been able to lose weight and im not even doing much exercise. I eat about half of half of how much I used to eat and I feel satisfied. It has really been a blessing for me.

[velvetbees]

My mom did not give us sugary foods when I was young. I did not eat overly sugary food as an adult, yet I ended up 70 lbs overweight in my 60's. At 200 lbs I knew I could not let mysslf get ger bigger. Getting to that point and deciding it had ro change was the start. It took six years to lose the weight. I had a genetic problem that made it hard to lose wetght. Four years was cutting out unhealthy food like sugar and gluten. Two years was on Keto. No seed oils was the final act that helped me feel a complete turn around. Please do not give up. You have to get rid of sugar. I cut way down on carbs on my own before keto. Using only olive oil was the final victory. That is my story, and I hope it helps others. PS, I also use no toxic soaps and avoid perfumes in everything. Too toxic! Only water to drink. My body showed me to do these things, what to cut out of my, ife. I listened to it. I did not ignore how food and substances in products made me feel bad. I never asked a doctor for help, but that may have been unwise. Stay in touch with a doctor if you are obese. Thank you Doctor for your wonderful channel!!!

[lamann]

The WORST is when doctors say “take in less calories than you burn and you’ll lose weight.” There’s SOOO MUCH more to it than that!!!!

[loriar]

My head was swimming listening to you describe all the things we’re exposed to that cause obesity. I grew up thin as a rail stayed thin until I got into my 30s and especially in my late 40s. Gradually I started struggling to keep my weight at a healthy level. I developed thyroid nodules that caused my thyroid to be removed in my late 40s. My weight has crept into the obese category and stayed there till my endocrinologist recommended Ozempic. My insurance won’t pay for it bc I’m only pre-diabetic, so I drove down to Mexico to buy it at a fraction of the price. It’s amazing. I don’t even think about food. My sugar addiction is in abeyance. I’ve lost 40lbs and started exercising. Unfortunately Ozempic is becoming hard to find in Mexico. I hope they fix the supply issue bc this medicine is helping me a lot.

[Mscookie]

The scary part is that some researchers are saying that once you are obese, you will struggle for the rest of your life with weight related issues, such as hunger as your body fights you to put the weight back on

[LinDa-vxly]

I wish more people and scientists would become aware of the fact that there are lean (or just outwardly lean) people who really need to work to stay that way. I’m supposedly lean, but the urge to eat tortures me every single waking minute. It was only because of hating my social position as a fat kid that I ended up losing weight and staying this way, albeit with some yo-yoing. No one appears interested in researching WHY people like me think about food all the time and how to help us curb our insatiable appetites.