Lori-- a response
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
I was teasing, Lori-- there's some backstory there-- many DSers like to put down RNYers because they feel they found a superior surgery and that we're less than wise. I prefer to think I made the best decision I could for myself based on the information I had (which was considerable.) It gets very tedious after a while...I like to kid Chris about it.
RNY surgery "works" for just about everyone-- for the initial honeymoon year. You could literally eat what you like (in small amounts) and probably have pretty good results-- many do. I approach it as an extension of my pre-op diet, and it generally only offers me the security of a "safety net" if I should ever fall off course-- which happens remarakbly infrequently.
I still account for every morsel I pop in my face. Every day I tweak balances, add items, look for better ways to improve my nutrition *and* eat yummy things-- it wouldn't work if I didn't love the food, but luckily I do. I eat more of many different kind of things instead of the same old McPoop I ate pre-op. I eat much better quality food, but in smallish amounts.
Last night I had chicken cordon bleu with a mustard sauce, sauteed green beans, and SF FF cheesecake with berry preserves-- life's not so bad, I promise!
But like I said, this is the easy part. This year is a given. It's the rest of my life that looms largest n my legend-- I hope that by learning everything I can and developing good habits now, I can do this, one day at a time, for life. Time will tell.
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
"Oh sweet and sour Jesus, that is GOOD!" - Stephen Colbert Lap RNY 7/07-- Lap Gallbladder 5/08--
Emergency Bowel Repair 6/08 -Dr. Meilahn, Temple U. Upper and Lower Bleph/Lower Face Lift 12/08
Fraxel Repair 2/09-- Lower Bleph Re-Do 5/09 -Dr. Pontell, Media PA Mastopexy/Massive
Brachioplasty/ Extended Abdominoplasty (plus Mons Lift and Upper Leg lift) / Hernia Repair
6/24/09 ---Butt Lift and Lateral Thighplasty Scheduled 7/6/10 - Dr. Ivor Kaplan VA Beach
Total Cost: $33,500 Start wt: 368 RNY wt: 300 Goal wt: 150 Current wt: 148.2 BMI: 24.7
Personally, no. I don't think that zero (or as close to it as I can get) is a great idea. For now though, I see it as a means to avoid an insulin response. Shari, I could NOT lose an ounce while eating carbs and taking insulin to cover it.
I just woke up... my fasting bs was 98. In my fruit and veggie days I'd wake up with a 250. I'm not quite sure what I hope to accomplish, or what is even possible at this point.. but could it be that somewhere down the weight loss road the cells that are refusing the insulin delivered glucose might repair themselves?
For me, the "sensible" diet made no sense at all. My pancreas isn't broken... my cells are broken. So why take insulin when there's already a ton of insulin floating around with no where to go? When the insulin goes knocking on the cells and can't get in, it assumes I have enough for the energy I need and stores the unused glucose in the fat reserves. If all things were equal, I'd eat a reasonable amount of carbs knowing that my body would first burn those, then the proteins, then the fat...with exercise of course. Since all things are not equal, because the delivery system IS working so well, but the acceptance system is not... I skip the carb, and take in double the percentage of fat than protein. In the absence of fats, proteins would be turned to glucose as well. An average day will look like 68% fat, 30% protein and 2% carbs.
It may sound crazy.. but it's working. After years of living in this prison.. I found an escape tunnel. After years of always feeling famished, of being so tired that I could barely get up the energy to take myself to the bathroom, years of my mind being cloudy all the time, and feeling like my entire body was in a vice that was getting tighter and tighter...... I have relief.
No, I wouldn't recommend that anyone do this without a doctor's supervision..and after doing it for about 5 months, my doctor will be first hearing about it from me when I see him Monday. I suspect that doing something, ANYTHING will be more well received by him than what I was doing.. which was just laying here waiting to die.. hoping for a fatal heart attack.. going to sleep and praying that I don't wake up.
One day I'll get back to enjoying a few cups of veggies a day.. but that day isn't here yet.. maybe in another 40 lbs or so. We'll see. 
