02/13/2006 00:00
From Adkins to Gastric Bypass
hey everyone! i have struggled w/ committing to a eating plan all weekend. i have done, tried, and considered so many from adkins to gastric bypass.
with adkins its a hard diet for me to get started on. i have always felt so sick in the starting phase and the bad head aches similar to migraines would always make me go off the diet and attempt after attempt only left me successful once w/ a total of 34 lbs. lost.
medifast, an all liquid expensive diet. my ex-husband invested in that for me. at the time i was a 13/14 and he called me fat. what i would have give to be that now...lol. that was a miserable punishing diet, at first it was ok but i was hungry all the time (hmmm..maybe i have been starved and thats why i worry so now about becoming hungry) and eventually when my ex wasn't around i'd sneak and eat. when i served the kids their meals i'd take a few spoon fulls before bring the plate to the table. i might have lost 10 lbs. at the most and heard years after about that failure from my ex.
phentermine, has been the most successful in losing about 10 lbs. a month and keeping it off but its been years since i used it. the dr. i had to go see was a little old man and a major pervert the required a breast exam every month to refill the RX and eventually i just couldn't stand it anymore and stopped going. it was a terrible degrading feeling. its amazing what you'll subject your self to when trying to lose weight.
i've considered adkins again, south beach, dr. phils solution (he actually has good advise for emotional eaters like me), lap band, and gastric bypass.
gastric bypass, the dr. i work for had it done last august. she weighed 348 lbs. and has lost a total of 167 lbs. at first i wanted that easy fix. to hear her tell the story it was a piece of cake but actually i watched her struggle w/ the need to comfort her emotions and not being able to eat and eventually started smoking. then she moved along doing well but she traded one evil for another. her pre-health was poor w/ diabetes, high blood pressure, joint pain, fatigue,...etc w/ a list from being obese. post. surg. she no longer had diabetes and resently took her self off her high blood pressure meds. which i don't think is a good idea on her own. she seems to have more energy but her eating habits are still poor and is most important than ever. she's suppose to be putting protein first and drinking water. see a dr. regularly b/c B12 vitamin is usually harder to absorb w/ the bypass as well as calcium. too often i see her choose wine over food and toosie rolls over protein. although she has done great i just worry for the long term effect of not doing like shes suppose to be so that is what has changed my mind that i don't need a quick fix i need to learn to eat right and exercise.
as far as the other diets i mentioned above i just feel like i need to learn to eat right so that i can sit down w/ family and friends and "be normal" at the dinner table and enjoy what i love....good food and laughter. i may try the appetite suppressant in the beginning for maybe three months or less to help with my hungry worry and get my stomach use to smaller portions and then whine myself off and get out on my own. i'll have the full plan tomorrow, monday my deadline for the plan and my weigh in.
with adkins its a hard diet for me to get started on. i have always felt so sick in the starting phase and the bad head aches similar to migraines would always make me go off the diet and attempt after attempt only left me successful once w/ a total of 34 lbs. lost.
medifast, an all liquid expensive diet. my ex-husband invested in that for me. at the time i was a 13/14 and he called me fat. what i would have give to be that now...lol. that was a miserable punishing diet, at first it was ok but i was hungry all the time (hmmm..maybe i have been starved and thats why i worry so now about becoming hungry) and eventually when my ex wasn't around i'd sneak and eat. when i served the kids their meals i'd take a few spoon fulls before bring the plate to the table. i might have lost 10 lbs. at the most and heard years after about that failure from my ex.
phentermine, has been the most successful in losing about 10 lbs. a month and keeping it off but its been years since i used it. the dr. i had to go see was a little old man and a major pervert the required a breast exam every month to refill the RX and eventually i just couldn't stand it anymore and stopped going. it was a terrible degrading feeling. its amazing what you'll subject your self to when trying to lose weight.
i've considered adkins again, south beach, dr. phils solution (he actually has good advise for emotional eaters like me), lap band, and gastric bypass.
gastric bypass, the dr. i work for had it done last august. she weighed 348 lbs. and has lost a total of 167 lbs. at first i wanted that easy fix. to hear her tell the story it was a piece of cake but actually i watched her struggle w/ the need to comfort her emotions and not being able to eat and eventually started smoking. then she moved along doing well but she traded one evil for another. her pre-health was poor w/ diabetes, high blood pressure, joint pain, fatigue,...etc w/ a list from being obese. post. surg. she no longer had diabetes and resently took her self off her high blood pressure meds. which i don't think is a good idea on her own. she seems to have more energy but her eating habits are still poor and is most important than ever. she's suppose to be putting protein first and drinking water. see a dr. regularly b/c B12 vitamin is usually harder to absorb w/ the bypass as well as calcium. too often i see her choose wine over food and toosie rolls over protein. although she has done great i just worry for the long term effect of not doing like shes suppose to be so that is what has changed my mind that i don't need a quick fix i need to learn to eat right and exercise.
as far as the other diets i mentioned above i just feel like i need to learn to eat right so that i can sit down w/ family and friends and "be normal" at the dinner table and enjoy what i love....good food and laughter. i may try the appetite suppressant in the beginning for maybe three months or less to help with my hungry worry and get my stomach use to smaller portions and then whine myself off and get out on my own. i'll have the full plan tomorrow, monday my deadline for the plan and my weigh in.