Need Help Staying in Control of my Diet

Thank you

Support is wonderful and choosing to change your life is hard work.

I have you disagree with your statement, "It doesn't matter how you got here, it just matters that you take positive steps to move forward." If we don't make a real effort to understand how and why we allowed ourselves to become obese, we will never be successful.

There are many people who go through weight loss surgery who gain every pound back because they expected the surgery to do all the work. Curing obesity requires you to do the "head work". If you don't, you will go right back to using food as comfort, entertainment, cures for boredom, etc. Many WLS patients turn to alcohol instead of eating. I personally know people who have lost their family, homes, and friends due to alcoholism. I know several who have died from it.

We must face the demons. There is no other way to success.

OMG, Rocky...how painfully, painfully TRUE!!!!

3 of my very close post WLS can testify, to this...well, 2 of them can...one is already DEAD, of alcohol/drug unintentional overdose...one just got out of rehab, and is working to put her life back together...the other is in long term county jail, AGAIN, having lost ANOTHER six figure job, her million dollar home, her marriage, 5 children-all due to transfer addiction ALCOHOLISM -

I NEVER thought TRANSFER ADDICTION was a REAL thing...I thought it was a EXCUSE to drink/shop/screw around...

I was SO wrong..

Gina I can agree with you at 10 plus years post RNY. I personally can say that I followed over 100 post op individuals via online groups and face to face support groups over the years....and 10% of those ended up with alcohol problems.

I KNOW, personally, of MANY others...sadly...the 3, I mentioned, were ones who are/were in my "chosen family" circle...too close to home

I was merely referring to the 'excuses' you accused her of making in your first post. If she overate before, it's not going to matter if she starts making changes today and in the future. Ie. forgive yourself, yes you made mistakes, now work on fixing them from today and in the future. That does not in any way mean, don't fix your head today and in the future. It means accept it and start working on it.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned watching the show, "My 600 Pound Life". It is on TLC, but I don't have cable and buy the episodes from Amazon.

It is about a doctor in Texas, Dr. Younan Nowzaradan, who specializes in people who weigh over 600 pounds. It shows the realities of being that size and goes into the lives of his patients. Before Dr. Now, no doctor would do weight loss surgery on a person weighing 600 pounds. Most hospitals do not have surgical tables and equipment that will handle a patient that size.

I believe that you are exactly the type of person that would be an extremely successful patient of Dr. Now. You are mobile, have family support, and are not weighed down with the handicap of having lived through an abusive childhood. That is a lot of positives.

Please go to his website, drnowmd.com/

Read about his work and contact this office for an appointment. There is real hope for you. To me, Dr. Now is the equivalent of Mother Theresa. He has a real compassion and drive to make life better for people who are morbidly obese.

I totally agree! I wanted to read all the responses, before I mentioned him!

Thank you so much for the information.

I personally think that that show is abusing those so heavy.

Sure they pay for all or a portion of surgery, but I personally would not expose myself to show like that.

Someone pointed out that asking a person over 600lbs to follow a 1200 low carb - high protein diet for 2 months to lose required amount of weight is not realistic. You have people coming from a very high calories diet, full of sugar, and fat, and everything what fast food does - food addiction - and with no weekly support, those people are asked to just do it. I

I had RNY, and to this day I have properly functioning pouch, with good restriction, and I know i would have a very hard time to stick to that diet, low carb, high proteins. Even when i try to change my diet, and remove, or limit carbs in my food, I have to do it slowly. First week easing into my program, as I lower the carbs and increase fat and proteins.

The only one time I was able to stick to low carb - low fat - high protein diet, was when my GB failed and i could not tolerate fats. But - the 3-4 weeks as I waited form my GB surgery, I was hungry all the time. And the only reason I did not eat anything else, was that my GB pain was much worse than my hunger at that time.

BTW: I was very very close to my goal, and during that waiting time for the GB surgery, I lost the rest of my excessive weight.