WHEN ARE PEOPLE GOING TO REALIZE "DIETS" DON'T WORK!!!!

 Have you noticed that there is a "New"  diet out there that is being highly publicized by Dr. Phil called the  "P.I.N.K. Method.  This week he had it on his show and then a couple of days later "The Doctors" show (which is produced by Dr. Phil's son) was promoting it!. Makes you wonder who is making money on this diet!  

Before WLS I had tried every diet out there.  I lost weight, 100 lbs twice on two different diets and 50 and 75 lbs on other various diets.  The thing was I couldn't and didn't stay on the "diets" and when I went off the diets I gained back the weight I lost plus more.  I dieted myself to 400 plus lbs. 

Now over 10 years out from WLS, believe it or not I can eat as much as people who have not had it. The trick is when I had WLS I realized I had to create healthy eating and exercise habits for a lifetime. I also eliminated things from my diet that I knew were addictive to me.    

When are people going to realize "DIETS" don't work.....because most people don't stay on them forever....IT IS ONLY A TEMPORARY THING....most people can not stay on them! And they end up like I was. 

I think the word "Diet" is such a negative word...the first 3 letters are "Die" and that is what I felt like when I was on one.  Deprived all the time and couldn't wait to "cheat" and eat something good!

After WLS and creating healthy eating and healthy habits I never feel deprived.  I have learned how to alter recipes to make them healthier and find exercise that I like so I will continue doing it. 

I know so many people who are as far out as I am and have gained a majority of their weight back....and they are back on the "diet train" going on and then coming off of a diet.  I implore you to find what works for you! Make sure it is something you can live with the rest of your life!

The WLS journey is not a destination to a particular weight......It is a Journey we will be on the rest of our lives.  But it is one that you can do and you can enjoy it too!!!


Much luck to you on your journey, 

Ginger

I think this every time I hear someone who has had RNY asking about that bloody 5 day pouch test!  

Fad diets gave us poor metabolism before WLS and they'll do the same after!   I am by no means perfect but if I eat normally (ie like a normal weight person) then I'm fine.   I eat well, exercise well, take my vitamins and get my labs and voila!  No need to go on stupid liquid diets!  If the scale moves up a couple of pounds, I cut back on the carbs a bit and it comes off.   I'll hazard a guess that most of us "of a certain age" have to do that - even those that have been a normal weight all their life - part of the joy of middle age!

Dr Phil and his son definitely have a finger in this pie - as they do every diet they promote each year (I think they do one a year).  The people they have on these shows will reappear a couple of months later having dropped their 50lbs (or whatever) and then poof!  They're gone.   We ALL know that they've regained that 50lbs and then some and Dr Phil and Jay walk off with their millions (as do all the other diet gurus out there)

 Yes, and when I watched the show there was a young girl who wanted to get married and didn't want to until she lost 50 lbs.  The way Dr. Phil talked to her about it....I wanted to crawl through the TV and scream at him!  

He would say....don't you want to lose the weight....don't you want to get married....blah...blah...blah...
How many times I was asked those quesitons before WLS....I wanted to lose it more than anything.....I just couldn't lose it and keep it off and I tried all my life!! Doesn't he think if she could she would!!!! Perhaps there is something else keeping her from losing the weight....

Just makes me so angry! 

Wouldn't be the first time he made money off a fad diet plan.

Yeah, how's that "PINK" thing working out for ol' Phil and HIS weight? He's still "on the large side", isn't he?

It all comes down to calories in vs calories out.  Some people are just naturally inclined to pick the celery instead of the potato chips.  Some people would rather go for a run instead of watch TV.  Most people have to exercise discipline to keep from getting bigger and bigger.  Weight loss surgery limits the volume of food that can be taken in at one time.  That is ALL that it does.

Everything else is up to the individual.  It is easy to graze on empty calories, fats, sugars, high carbs.  It is easy to gain weight back. It takes time and effort to track what I eat, to weigh myself daily and to get in exercise.  Anyone who has maintained weight loss for ten years deserves all of the credit. The surgery is a tool to get started, the work is up to the individual.

 When you replace an old habit with a new healthier one it becomes just that "A habit". But when you let yourself go back....like I did so many times before WLS...you are back in the weight gain boat!

It is very easy for me to gain weight....I feel like I am just like anyone else now.  Like I said, this is a journey....I do continue doing what I learned when I first had WLS. 

No magic....just follow the rules your surgeon gives you and you will be successful for a lifetime!  Not just for a few years. 

No, not true f you have a metabolic disease, bad genetics, or are forced to take certain drugs for health conditions where weight gain as a side effect. A sizable amount of MO and SMO peeps fall under those categories. It's not all about diet and exercise, if it were no one would be fat.

 " Weight loss surgery limits the volume of food that can be taken in at one time.  That is ALL that it does."

No, that's not all WLS does. If that's all it did, it wouldn't work for most people.

WLS gives us better hunger control that we used to have so that we can live on smaller portions and less food without feeling majorly deprived. It changes our metabolic systems.

That's why WLS works and diets/exercis alone doesn't.

Then why do so many WLS'ers go on diets?

It's just a game.