The moniker of this blog is FatCeliac. For a long time, I have fought being fat. I have dieted to within an inch of my life and could not lose a pound. I had an argument with an endocrinologist saying that I was eating 1400 gluten free calories a day, was on phentermine (an upper), was miserable, and was not losing weight. I asked him why I wasn’t losing weight when eating less than 1400 calories a day – he said I was eating too much. For me, that was the last straw and I decided there was something beyond my control deciding what I weighed.

Come to find out, I might have been right. A study out of Digestive Diseases Week looked at the microbiome of over 400,000 patients where about 1800 had celiac disease. After age and sex matching celiac patients with controls, researchers found similar alterations in the gut microbiome between celiac patients and those with obesity. More specifically, researchers found similarities in both obese and celiac patients with high levels of the Firmicute bacteria. Well established science notes high levels of Firmicute bacteria in patients with obesity.

Other than noting similar high levels of Firmicute bacteria, the role of the gluten free diet’s role in obesity was not explored further.

The role of the gluten-free diet in obesity in celiac disease was acknowledged by the researchers, but not explored in the study.

I’m not sure why I cannot lose weight. I eat a healthy-ish, gluten free, whole foods diet and exercise. I check in with my doctor for regular check ups, visit the dentist, and am in general keeping up with my health to the best of my ability. That’s the best I can do.

Study links -> https://loom.ly/tzuma4w and https://loom.ly/Bhg9gaI

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