I understand. I had been overweight for most of my adult life I always tried to avoid fads, but was constantly on a diet. After years, COVID came and my husband had additional health issues that essentially kept us housebound for 3 or 4 years. I loosened up on dietary restrictions so we'd derive more pleasure daily. To my great surprise, I didn't gain weight. I actually had weight loss without trying. I attributed it to the stress of caring for my dying husband. It turned out to be malabsorption. At one level I didn't care. I was thrilled to weigh what I had in my early 20s. Ironically people who had known me for years would say how good I looked while my hair was thinning, my nails were breaking and I thought I looked like "death warmed over." Luckily my weight stabilized when I started on PERT.

We are told that the symptoms of EPI vary. But it's hard to understand how some can't gain a pound and others can't loose a pound.