LOSE WEIGHT FOR GOOD – WITHOUT DIETING
‘The success of your efforts to lose weight will be determined by how honest you are with yourself as to what can sensibly achieved’
HIS first thought when a patient came into his office clutching a bag full of sausage rolls and crisps was, “Take responsibility for yourself and go on a diet.”
But Dr Andrew Jenkinson’s attitude has since changed – and in a fascinating new book, Why We Eat (Too Much), he tells us why.
Jenkinson is a British surgeon who specialises in bariatric surgery – operations to the digestive system to help people lose weight – and he’s the first person to admit he used to judge some of his patients who’d gorge on fattening foods.
Yet after listening to countless obese patients describe being in a trap, unable to lose weight no matter how hard they tried, he turned his focus from appetite to metabolism.
His conclusion: it’s all down to the weight set-point.
