Obesity is the inability to lose and keep a healthy weight at will.
Think about it—if you could easily drop pounds you need, whenever you wanted, you wouldn't be here reading this.
The first symptom of obesity isn't weight gain—it's relentless hunger and intense cravings. Weight gain comes second.
How Does It Start With Hunger?
When your genes encounter today's environment—filled with triggers like ultra-processed foods, chronic stress, poor sleep, and environmental toxins—your brain becomes overwhelmed. It shifts your internal "fat set point" to a higher level and then vigorously defends this new weight as your "normal."
Then Comes What We Call Obesity
When you try to lose weight, your biology fights back with everything it has. Even if you succeed temporarily, your higher set point works relentlessly to regain the lost fat by slowing your metabolism, cranking up hunger, and flooding your mind with constant food thoughts.
This isn't a failure of willpower—it's your body's sophisticated defense mechanism.
You've been fighting a rigged game in an environment your genes weren't built for.
Everyone's told you it's your fault. That ends here.
I'm a family doctor, board-certified in obesity medicine, and I've lived every chapter of this story myself.I've carried the weight, lost it, watched it return, chosen bariatric surgery, and weathered the triumphs and stumbles no brochure warns about.
I know the sting of shame, the surge of hope, and the crushing advice to "just try harder." I've sat in exam rooms where every symptom—knee pain, fatigue, depression—was blamed on my weight, as if I hadn't already tried everything humanly possible.
I also know what genuine freedom feels like—because I've walked the hard miles to find it.
Today I guide people through every season of the journey: pre-op nerves, post-op adjustments, the hormonal whirl of perimenopause, weight-regain worries, and all the unspoken complications in between.
I am a doctor who truly understands—not just the medical textbook, but the lived reality of being dismissed, blamed, and reduced to a number on a scale.
This road is deeply personal, but you don't have to walk it alone.
Healing is easier when you're met with curiosity and science instead of judgment.
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