Fear of Failure (especially for newbies)
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Can you drink skim milk? Or soy milk, if you're lactose intolerant? It's not a great way to get protein in for a long time because you'd get too many calories but right now you're getting so few calories anyway, it's OK to get some from your liquids.
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I would just add one thing, from my own experiences, which may or may not apply to others. Unfortunately, I have some friends who've had an RNY and put back on more that half of their loss. Still lighter than their start weight, so it's up to you whether or not to count it as a failure. Failure or not, it does scare the heck out of me that I might stumble into whatever errors they ran into.
My reaction is to EMBRACE THE FEAR. More than my desire for success, this fear of failure is doing wonders to keep me compliant. Even during my two weeks of pre-op protein drinks, I never cheated. Bad habits are hard to break, but my pouch is a TOOL to help me do that. It is a tool that I never had in any of my previous diets, as Kelly wrote. And I pray that this tool will help me to develop good habits, and succeed where I always failed before.
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.