Patrick Deuel, 42, has lost an astounding 321 pounds and is motivated to lose 450 more. When Deuel was admitted to the hospital he weighed 1,072 pounds. Standing just under 6 feet tall doctors decided to restrict Deuel's dietary intake to 1,200 calories a day.
Confined to his bed since last fall, Deuel's body has been riddled by numerous health complications including heart problems, thyroid problems, diabetes, pulmonary hypertension and arthritis.
A maneuver as simple as rolling over in bed couldn't be done without assistance.
Deuel, who has faced a life-long battle with his weight, stated some of his weight issues were caused by genetic factors.
The cost of Deuel's care could be in excess of millions of dollars, much of which the hospital would have to pick up. From here, Deuel's goals are simple: He wants to walk out of the hospital, attend a Nebraska Cornhuskers football game and go for a walk with his wife.
The Seattle Times August 12, 2004
The article doesn't say what makes up Deuel's 1,200 daily calories, but eliminating grains would be essential in this case. The body's storage capacity for carbohydrates is quite limited, so when you eat an excess of grains (and sugars) here's what happens to all the excess: they are converted, via insulin, into fat and stored in the adipose, or fatty, tissue.
It looks like he got help just in time, and let's hope he continues to lose weight successfully.
It's encouraging to see that this man's life is being turned around through dietary changes as opposed to resorting to unsafe weight-loss practices such as gastric bypass surgeries that are becoming increasingly common.
A staggering 61 percent of American adults currently meet the scientific definition of obesity, putting them at increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, arthritis, depression and several forms of cancer. Obesity rates among U.S. adults have gone up 30 percent since the late 1970s.
Meanwhile, just one-third of U.S. adults meet experts' recommendations for at least 30 minutes of exercise five days per week.
Although I'm afraid this is probably the most sedentary generation of people in the history of the world, I really do believe people can change their lives for better. One of my Canadian readers recently sent me a wonderful testimonial about her 140-pound weight loss, a direct result of reading my eHealthy News You Can Use newsletter.
As readers like Bobbi can certainly attest, unfortunately, nearly all of the traditional approaches to relieving obesity don't work very well...
It is not that obesity is a neutral frame. Most people who are obese are not happy about it and would like to change to a normal weight. They are quite familiar with the health implications.
However they have two major problems.
The first is that most "experts" are providing them with incorrect information. The problem is not the fat--it is the excess grain carbohydrates. Anyone who has reviewed my nutrition plan is familiar with this.
However, even if people understand what they need to do, which is--at the most basic level--to replace grains with vegetable greens, they still are unable to do this.
Fortunately, there are some effective tools that address the emotional attachments and addictive elements that impair one's ability to follow this program.
EFT is one of those tools.
Not only is it good for addressing the food issues, but it is phenomenal for improving the discipline that is required to implement an effective exercise program that clearly needs to be a part of the successful solution to weight management.
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