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iQuestions Faculty, Dr. David Eckman 
 
 
Question: 
 
How do I lose weight? 
 
Answer: 
 
How does a person lose weight? There’s the simple answer, and then 
there’s the less simple answer. 
 
The simple answer, of course, is, exercise and watch your portions. 
That’s the simple answer— except it doesn’t seem to work for the vast 
majority of people. 
 
The more complex answer is, exercise, watch the portions, get around 
people who are pursuing the losing of weight, get yourself into a 
system, into groups that address weight, so that you have the 
relational back-up. 
 
But if that doesn’t work, then you’ve got to consider another step—
because, oftentimes, people use the eating of food as a way of 
medicating pain. So, the more difficult step is to ask yourself where 
are the areas of pain in your life that you might be using food to 
medicate. 
 
So, three different areas.  
 
Simple approach: exercise, watch the portions. 
 
Two: get around a team of people who will work together to drop the 
pounds. 
 
 
 
But thirdly, if you discover that you’re using food to medicate pain in 
the life— emotional pain, relational pain, or possibly physical pain (and 
if you have physical pain, check with a doctor). But if you’re using food 
to medicate pain, then that has to be addressed, deeply addressed.  
 
It’s a challenge. You can do it. Millions, tens of millions, have lost a lot 
of pounds. Don’t lie to yourself into thinking that you’re incapable of 
losing weight. You certainly can. 
  
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