I'm having some difficulty on the boards of late. I see these posts asking about making choices post op (early post op especially) for different foods they "think" they can have and if its ok. For some reason I think that if they get the "approval" from their anonymous online peers then it must be ok and then they have someone to blame other than themselves when it all goes wrong
All I have been able to reply is basically this:
Do you want to lose weight?
Do you want to keep it off?
Do you want to change your relationship with food?
Do you want to be posting about stalls (or worse complications!) because of your choices?
Do you want to be among the statistics of people that REGAIN their weight?
You only get one good shot at this post op. Why make choices that you KNOW aren't good for you or not on your surgeons plan? Do you think that the surgeon made the plan up purely to torture you?
Think about this. Think about your choices post op. And then after that, its up to you to make this choice. You can eat the foods you're not cleared to because you think its ok... or you can eat the foods you're supposed to because you want to optimize your results for as long as you can!
I'm having less and less patience with this as I get further from my surgery. Are people really thinking this or are they just trolling? I'm having difficulty deciding if they REALLY wanted this healthy life or just chose surgery simply to get SKINNY.
signed (nearly) 1 year post op and lower than goal
Agreed!! I know some people that eat the same crap they were eating before surgery.. An I'm like what's the point?? Lol hopefully it doesn't bit them in the butt because you're right, we only get one chance at this post op thing!
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