09/21/2009 11:43
188.3 liquid diet continues
I know if I were reading this, i might be asking-- well, if you can lose weight like this (so quick and seemingly 'so easy'-- on a liquid diet/ diet without surgery, then what is the surgery for?
What I'm gathering in the posts on the lap band forums I've checked out is that it is not the weight LOSS that is the big thing but the keeping it off that is so HUGE. (No pun intended.)
Most people would look at me and say I don't look overweight 'enough' to have the surgery-- but the surgery is NOT about what the outside looks like at all. I am really discovering alot in this pre-op period.
Namely: this surgery is for health-- and for longevity and for stopping the madness too. Yes: I could lose this weight again... I am FINALLY seeing results again after all of these failed attempts, just with a few days of the liquid diet.
Obviously-this is not a sustainable life.... but still: I could drop a lot of weight pretty quickly like this. (By the way: this is a medically prescribed liquid diet, I didn't just go off half-cocked and decide to try to lose a bunch of weight pre-sugery.) Still: the bottom line for me is that I am taking this fairly drastic step to finally end the yo-yo craziness. To get on with things. To focus my energies on something other than which is the next diet and will my pants be too tight. The limits are the limits-- but in the end, I believe that I am buying 'freedom' by doing this...