I was watching the Dr. Oz Show today.  He's been working with a woman named Colleen so she can get down to a healthy weight from her over 700 lb. physique.  If I recall correctly, she's lost thirty-five pounds in about four months.  During the past month, she lost one pound.

Dr. Oz has given her the best trainers, nutritionists, psychologists...every kind of help he could offer.  And yet, she can't overcome her eating addiction.

Today Dr. Oz took her to the autopsy room at his hospital.  He showed her body parts of a person who was one hundred pounds overweight.  She held their omentum, their liver, their very heart....all parts affected by this person's weight and ultimately, their own death.

Colleen cried.  She spoke as if this visual had truly changed her life.  It appeared that the doctor was a little skeptical about her response, but still offered her yet one more chance.  He was sending her to a hospital in North Carolina.  He told her that she would not be back on his show until she lost at least one hundred pounds...hopefully, by September. 

 

Nothing about those dead pieces/parts of a body moved me even close to tears.  It was a total disconnect.  Maybe I've just seen one too many Dr. Oz shows and preserved body parts don't shock anymore.  Whatever the reason, all I could think about was how Colleen could not be moved to lose more weight after months of having highly qualified experts to support and guide her.  

 

What prevents some from succeeding while others go one to have weight loss success?

Look at Oprah.  Here is someone who can have the best of everything, who has even succeeded in her weight loss goals, but still can't keep the weight off.  Why?   I just keep wondering why? 

 

Some people in this News-Herald weight loss challenge are doing great and I'm sincerely happy for them and for anyone who accomplishes such an insurmountable goal.  I just don't know how they do it.  What's the secret that seems to escape my grasp? 

I get weighed in with my fellow contestants once a month.  Most of them go home and find even more renewed inner strength to lose weight during the next month.  I go home to my little bubble and worry myself sick about a lack of control...a lack of mind over matter...my lack of strength.  Why does something I have obsessed about for over forty years still seem SO impossible?

Does anyone have any solid answers out there?  

 

Jo