WLS is easy

I've gotta take issue with that last sentence - it IS a dietician we need, not a nutritionist. Literally anyone can be a nutritionist - it's a title without a profession, just like anyone can be a 'healer' or a 'bookkeeper', but you have to have demonstrated education, professional experience & accreditation to be a doctor or designated accountant. In fact, there's a doctor in the UK who got a nutritionist's certificate from the primary 'body' of nutritionists in the US for his DEAD CAT.

While we need a dietician who specializes in Bariatric patients, it IS an RD that we need, whether in the US or Canada.

Oups sorry as I read what I wrote I realized I made a mistake. I meant :

"It is not a dietician we need but a psychiatrist(or ehatever yiu call it in english)"

A "nut" for me referred to "psychiatrist, you know like for "nuts people". Please do not be offended as it is just a name we give them but not insulting anyone.

Again sorry for the confusion. The joy of translating myself from french to english but even worse to translate my english borrowed words that even english people fon't use. Just slang!!!!

Definitely not easy! Several of your points resonate with me. The WLS is a wonderful tool and I know that there is no way I would have been able to lose the weight I have without it.

But... now that most of the weight is off, keeping it off is all on me and that part scares the daylights out of me. And that is the part, for me, that I think non-WLS folks don't understand. Unless one truly changes their relationship with food, there is no lasting change.

So, no, it's not easy. If anything, for me, WLS can make keeping it off more difficult if I just trust in that.

Karine, I am so sorry you have to deal with parents who are so uneducated about WLS. I also agree with the person who has a relative who is a dietitian. Many dietitians think they know it all, and I also agree with the person who said we often know more about food and nutrition than a dietitian. They are the ones pushing sugar free substitutes that are health hazards (aspartame) What we need is someone educated about food and nutrition and psychology! When I went for my psych eval, the doctor told me research has shown those of us morbidly obese have suffered some type of abuse in their past.

I have discovered that when I feel unloved, for whatever real or imagined reason, I go for food. My relationship with food is ridiculous! I have used it for happiness, comfort, anger, every emotion out there! Now, I am telling myself I must eat to live and as simply (ha ha) fuel for my body

My husband says we would NEVER have the surgery because there is too much to keep track of, meds, vitamins, protein, sip, sip, sip. But he gets why I did it! He says I am organized, and love organization, so I can do it. That keeps me moving forward.

Hang in there, baby girl!  We can all do this together!

Agree with you! Well for all the over weight people I have met in my life, they all had the knowledge but they still ate badly. Some knew why, others didn't and of course some refused to admit they had a problem. If people feel the need to see a duetician, fine it's their choice. But it is pretty basic. Proteins first, fruits and veggies. The less the food has been altered, the better it is.

And I so totally agree on the chemical storm (or sweetener)! I have cut them (only kept my shakes to finish them) all. And it is the same propagande with the low fat food. Rudiculous! Low fat cheese, low fat yogourt, liw fat sour cream, etc.... Just high sodium. We all know sodium is much better then healthy fat, don't we?!!!!!!!