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Thank you as well for coming back and confirming a likely semantics issue. I do appreciate it and I also agree.

For the record - I don't believe for one minute that a handful of berries should be an issue. But others do and I think sometimes this whole carb-discussion can get extremely hard to untangle. Especially when the majority of us run the spectrum.

Sometimes I wish for a pinned thread where someone nailed down the terms. "Low-carb" for example means a variety of things here and it becomes unintentionally confusing.

Enjoy your Sunday afternoon.

You too...ps we had the same surgeon (he put my lapband in, but I don't hold that against him).

This thread saddens me because if you are not losing weight now, and are unwilling to give up foods we all know made us fat, you have zero chance of losing your weight and maintaining that loss for the rest of your life.

This isn't a little piece of time in your life which will cure your obesity, surgery is merely an opportunity for you to lose your excess weight and make a lifelong change in your health habits. I'm sorry you were not told this before you drastically changed your anatomy.

I wish you luck.

It is sad to me, but you are entitled to your choices.

here's the thing. All carbs turn into pure sugar as soon as they hit your bloodstream. Digestion starts in the mouth and sugar carbs start absorbing as soon as carb**** your mouth.

pure sugar(carbs) is the easiest thing for our bodies to use for energy. As long as there is free flowing sugar in our blood streams, our lazy bodies will use it for energy INSTEAD of using stored fat. Burning stored fat is what causes weight loss.

as long s you give your body pure quick releasing sugar, you are not likely to lose. You may actually start to gain,but you most likely won't lose,as you are actually already seeing.

" Can't " often translates to " don't want to". Looks like you are going to have to decide what you want worse,carbs or weight loss and improved health and life long results.

You also have to watch that excess protein that many advocate - that gets turned into sugar as well.

Only when fat is not available. Turning proteins into sugar is not very effective offset process. Some protein require more insuline-than others and can cause hypoglycemia, if not enough fat is available or consumed.

Body use protein to make into sugar when no other fuel sources are available.

Except it doesn't. If you're eating 800 calories of mostly protein and fat, you'd be below BMR, and there is no excess.

It would fill the body's protein needs, and the small amount of glucose necessary for brain function. There is no excess protein at those levels.

Thank you. I think I should work harder on the carb thing and I will. Of course I dont wont to waste my effort and early surgery pains just like that.

I think it is more that "I can't give it up" that is the red flag to most of the vets, rather than allowing yourself some carbs. I know some are completely against it, but really it's that they want to to succeed and keeping a mind set of not being able to give up something just because you want it that much is why most of us got as big as we did. We just want you to be healthy both mentally and physically!