Doing it the "sensible" way
I've been on many dozens of "diets" in the past. A few months ago, I finally decided on lap band surgery since I was about 120 pounds overweight. Ironically, the surgery was scheduled for this morning!
However, after being on the preop diet for 2 weeks and after my preop appointment with my doctor, I decided to give myself one last try to control my weight issue before going under the knife. This reason along with just really bad timing made the decision pretty easy.
So, I'm giving myself until the end of summer (early September) to get my act together and do this. If I can't do this by the end of summer, then having the surgery after the kids schools start is the perfect time (and much easier for my husband to take time off for me instead of this, his busiest work month of the year).
I have found the preop diet actually pretty easy, so I'm sticking to a variation of that, but I am having trouble finding good guidance for it. It is a high-protein, low-fat diet. My husband is doing Atkins right now, so we are at total opposites which is making things a bit emotionally difficult to organize.
So here I am... almost 10 pounds down, eating sensibly (about 1200 to 1400 calories a day), not starving because of the protein I think, and exercising. Doing this the old fashioned way. Eating right and exercising...
Last edited by Minty Fresh; 06-29-2007 at 08:33 AM.
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