Thanks, Frenchie 333, for your kind affirmative responses. Congratulations for loosing 70 pounds and keeping it off. That’s so rare that the National Weight Loss Registry would like to hear how you kept it off.

Who knows, we could be related because endometriosis is a genetic disease. Medical experimentation for mine caused my weight to zoom from 120 to 170 in five months. At age 20 I had been an athlete representing America in several European countries. BMI 19.

A few years later a gynecologist prescribed triple dosage birth control pills—yes, 60 per month, non-stop for five months. That was in 1966 when each pill was 10x the strength it is now. Back then women were getting strokes from the 20 pill per month regimen. That’s when Dr. Charles Langmade said his absurd dose would cause my endometrial ovarian cyst to “slough off.” It did not work. Lesson: Question your doc! Look up the weird thing he is prescribing on ProPublica’s Dollars For Docs.
See if there may be a conflict of interest caused by a pharmaceutical company paying him to experiment on patients. Goodness that sounds frightening! It happens, though now docs must ask permission before testing on their patients. And the patients must sign a permission form. After a Doc recently handed me a 14 page permission form to sign, I walked out, never to return.

Now back to my fat story.
Instead I lost my cute figure and became a frump. At medically directed weight loss programs I met other obese women who had been through similar weight-inducing regimen for endometriosis. Same result.

Knowing how hard I had worked, I invested in an education and enrolled in an international annual Obesity Research conference as the only fat patient in the midst of a couple thousand slender physicians who made their living “off the fat of the earth.”
My UCLA clinical nutrition doc co-chaired the event. His PowerPoint was introduced by a photo of a work of art: my collage showing a neolithic Venus perched on a bathroom scales.

At the CME conference I learned that researchers were still discovering the many causes of obesity. Google Adeno-36, for example. Dr. George Bray announced that every weight-loss disaster to date which had first showed so much promise became a weight-loss disaster. He also said that fewer than 1% could keep the weight off. So Congratulations to Frenchie again!

According to Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Andre Acosta, my body is a “slow burn” phenotype. Yes? I really do have a slow metabolism. Skipping past the many things I could say, I’ll finish this before it becomes a Book and say, to confirm your experience, that because I avoid inflammatory refined carbs my bone-on-bone knees do not hurt either. And selecting foods high in anthocyanin helps as well.

Dear reader, if you have read all of this, all the way down to here, may I be the first to congratulate you. Thank you!
Wishing you courage on your own journeys!