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My sister Kim is asthmatic. Between not getting enough oxygen and having taken prednisone way too often, she has had an even harder time with her weight than I. It’s not for lack of exercise; she’s a middle school teacher on a spread-out one-story campus that has her walking fifteen to twenty thousand steps every work day; on her days off she walks around the lake at a local park. She’s worked with a trainer. She eats zero junk. It’s just hellishly hard.

(When she signed up with the trainer, Kim was told, “You know, you’ll have to stop drinking soda and eating fast food and chips and stuff, right?.” When Kim told the trainer she didn’t consume any of that junk, the trainer was distinctly at a loss. After all, we all “know” that obesity is due to bad diet, right? Right?)

Then last year Kim heard about a new program called LORE in San Diego, where she lives. Dr. James LaBelle, Medical Director of Lore Health, was offering free treatment to teachers needing to lose weight, including a free continuous glucose monitor, dietary advice, support groups, and free Wegovy, a GLP-1 drug. Kim was in.

(Interestingly, Kim discovered that her breakfast of plain yogurt with vanilla extract and Splenda was spiking her blood sugar. Who knew?) So far, Kim has lost 22 pounds.

Do you or anyone you know have a medical condition that makes weight loss near impossible? Sometimes these are obvious, like Kim’s asthma, but others are hidden – and it seems there are many left to be discovered and diagnosed. Do you keep close track of your blood sugar with a monitor? What do you think of using GLP-1 drugs for weight loss? Let us know in the comments below.

It was clear I needed to talk to Dr. LaBelle! So here he is.

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