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Is your doctor helping you with the mental and physical part of this?
Missed this part. Both. At first she helped me find the diet that worked for me. She puts most of her patients on a low carb diet but she said that is not what everyone needs. She really pays attention to my hormone issues, fine tuning those. My family practice doctor does not think that is necessary. I am not sure how much that has helped. She does have some food products that can only be bought though a bariatric doctor. For the first couple of months, I had a low carb protein shake for breakfast and another midafternoon for a snack that she provided. She had me move off of them though.
I am not actually even sure why seeing this doctor has helped me so. We do not discuss personal issues so she is not helping mentally in the way that therapy would. When I analyze this, I do not think that I ever would have gotten my carb level as low as I did without a doctor telling me to. She convinced me that she could help me lose my cravings. She was right. She helped me tweat my diet to the point that I lost the cravings that had driven me all my life.
I thought that she was a little crazy when she told me to add coconut oil to my diet. But she was right, it solved my constipation issue and helped with satiety.
I also think that spending the money has helped me. When I was tempted to go off plan I reminded myself that I could not waste that money! I could not have possibly afforded this when I was raising my children. Now that they are grown, I can manage it.
I will have to say that once I started reading about low carb diets, hers is just a variation of them. So I think that she basically gave me the confidence to go low carb.