Nashville Nutrition and Emotional Wellness
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Yea, I thought it was a neat quiz. I did not do so well on it..
I think it is good to learn stuff about fats.. Helps us make educated decisions on food choices..
Knowledge is power..Okay missy, I got your message about your new song idea...
Leave it to Ms. Barb to come up with that one...
Thanks, now I can't get that tune out of my head. 
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Face the Fats
This is cool
Do you know your fats by heart? Ready to make informed choices about the foods you eat? Trina has provided a clickable link to the American Heart Association's Face the Fats quiz and encourages you to take it.
By taking this brief quiz, you will receive helpful diet and nutrition information about fats. You will also find useful resources such as My Fats Translator, which calculates your personal daily calorie needs, recommended range for total fats, limits for bad fats, as well as tips to help you Live Fat-Sensibly.
You would be surprised at how many people nation wide that didn't know that dry foods and skins would cause this problem as well as not knowing what and how to take their vitamins and supplements.
I would really encourage you to start journaling each day what you eat and drink as well as your protein.
So many of these WLS groups have no program just do the surgery and push you out the door.
I've seen patients eating regular foods a week out of surgery when they should be on liquid, but hay how do you know if nobody tells you.
I think Vanderbilt has a very good program which they are always trying to improve and expand.
It's up to each one of us to give them the feed back they need to improve the program, we owe it to those who follow.
Good luck with the sleeve its my understanding they use this as the first step to get the weight and co-morbidity's down before performing the follow up surgery for the health of the patient. Need anything just ask their is a men's forum as well on OH Michael might feel more comfortable asking questions.
Good luck we're here to help.
C'ya Bob
Hi Cdouglas:
So glad you joined our group. How long ago did your husband have RNY? Did Dr. Richards perform his surgery?
What made you choose Vertical Sleeve over RNY?
I had RNY.. And I am a dumper….. Thank God for that…. I asked my PCP (Primary Care Physician) one time… I asked him this question cause I knew he treated a lot of patients that had WLS, I asked him to give me the percentages of his patients that gained weight back after WLS… He told me 50%… He said in his findings the patients that did not dump regained a substantial amount of weight.
This made sense to me because WLS is just a tool, it is not a cure for morbid obesity…. We have to use it as a tool. I approach all of my food choices as a dumper. I do not go near sugar… I know I will dump on sugar… That is the most excruciating pain I have ever felt. I do not even take one bite. I do not take a bite of my husbands pie thinking to myself well it is only one bite, what can that hurt? It can hurt a heck of a lot and I do not want to go there.
What my partner Bob told you is true…
I even went to a fabulous Deli the other night in Ft. Worth. They had a fantastic salad bar. I was able to choose all my own toppings and was thrilled with my choices. Everything on the bar was advertised as organic and pure with no hidden sugars. After eating about half of my salad I had to excuse myself from the table and go outside for some fresh air. Then followed the foamies and I had to go lay in the back seat of my car until my friends were finished with their meal. Talk about embarrassing. This all happened from a salad bar where I had complete control of my choices… Some label lied somewhere… That is for sure…
