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You are over consuming if you are overweight. To lose weight, you must eat less calories than you burn. To maintain the loss, you must eat the amount of calories that you burn. My experience in life was that it became impossible for me to reduce my consumption enough to lose the excess weight and keep it off. I thought that I did not over consume. After my surgery, I was amazed by how little food it takes for me to feel full and satisfied.
Most often, surgery is not approved by insurance until your BMI has reached 40. To find that out, you will need to find out how much you weigh. If you are at a high enough BMI for weight loss surgery, then it is almost impossible to lose weight down to a normal BMI and maintain that loss for more than five years.
Your restriction on protein does not sound like it would be any more problem after surgery than before surgery. You need to start by weighing yourself. Then decide if you want to talk with a weight loss surgeon.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
sounds like you have some pretty uncommon health issues, so I'm not sure if anyone here will be able to answer that. I would ask a bariatric surgeon. Basically, once you get beyond the first few months (when hunger hormones are suppressed for most of us, and the bypass offers some malabsorption of calories), the surgery "works" mainly by restricting how much you can eat at one sitting. So if you're not over-consuming, I'm not sure this will work for you. But I'd do a consult with a bariatric surgeon - or someone who specializes in your health condition (and not take my word for it!!)
Thank you so much. They're calling next week to schedule me!
Wonderful. Keep us informed and make sure you take lots of before photos.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. I'm brand new to this forum. Currently don't even know my weight anymore, but my BMI is much too high.
I have a lot of health issues... Hashimoto's, PCOS, MSUD, Psoriasis, etc. and it all has taken such a toll on me.
I'm not sure if any type of surgery would be the right path for me, because I have certain restrictions. Because of one of my health issues, I can only consume 35g of protein per day from food, and the other 30-40g is from a medical supplement devoid of the branched chain amino acids. But that's not really what this post is about.
From everything I have read, these procedures are supposed to more or less stop you from over consumption and that's great, but... what if you don't over-consume? I'm not really a big eater, I've never binged in my life, I don't eat when I'm full, I'm a very slow emptier, etc.
So I'm wondering if a procedure like this would even benefit me, if my issues with weight are not because I'm consuming more than I should.
I told my family and friends from the start. Some family members had surgery before I did and they were open about it too.
I just told my immediate family and a few close friends before the surgery. Afterward I told other obese people if they asked (since we all know diet & exercise almost never works), but I told most normal-sized people that I was on a medically-supervised diet, doing low carb and exercising like a fiend. Most skinny people believe that schlock. It almost never comes up anymore because I'm over six years out. It's pretty rare now to run across anyone who either hasn't already seen me as normal-sized, or who didn't know me when I was obese.
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