Great question. I will address it in next weeks’ New Phil entry.

I always notice people who have never struggled with weight saying something like, “Hey fatty, just exercise more and eat less. It isn’t rocket science, you just have to have self discipline!”

Now that you have lost a good deal of weight but are stuck for a looooooong time at a plateau what do you think about this? You seem to be eating right and are certainly exercising a lot yet still aren’t losing more weight! How can that be?! Is it possible that things are a little more complex?

This was driven home to me when I saw a documentary that follow people who received gastric bypass. One young girl lost a lot of weight but stuck with a plateau where she was still very overweight. Meanwhile she couldn’t eat more than about 800 calories a day.