Re: weight loss before surgery? /i

[Guest guest]

i,

If there is any question in your mind of whether or not there is another

diet out there for you to try, then you are better off trying again. You

know and we know diets dont work but sometimes we have to satisfy our own

thinking..... " Have we done all there is to do and failed? "

I knew diets stink......they dont keep the weight off and I always would

regain back what I lost plus 10 more......and I wasnt getting any younger

either!

The difference here is you get approx 6 months or so of complete satiety

after surgery and the weight comes off effortlessly, it seems. As your

stomach begins to grow a bit to allow more food so that you dont just waste

away, you start eating more foods and more often. Its then that we need to

be very aware of good choices when we eat. That doesnt mean we can not have

carbs or sweets.....just be ever mindful that you will eat proteins first

before other foods...its a good habit to get into and those first 6 months

will be the training grounds.

Without the surgery I would not be where I am today, even if I developed

these good eating habits......why? becuz my stomach has been greatly reduced

and I can not eat the volume of food I once ate. Ice cream has no appeal to

me and that was my number one enemy prior to surgery......and the

malabsorption is what helps keep the weight off. Dr Welker said that by the

time we are a year out we should be eating 2500 calories a day and only

absorbing HALF of that! So......eating all we eat now and aborbing half of

that is 1250 calories.....that would not happen without the surgery.....see

the difference??

Judie =)