Listen to your physician. Fad diets work only in the short run. Unless you are able to modify your dietary intake drastically and stick with that modification, all diets will fail.
In some cases, bariatric surgery is the only hope for the morbidly obese. Your physician knows far more about you than anyone on Free Republic does.
Asking questions about what YOU should do about a health question on Free Republic is a waste of your time. Only you and your physician can make such decisions. Even those very few MDs on FR don't know you. They have not examined you.
Go back to your doctor.
Thanks for responding, but I'm not asking anyone for medical advice. I get enough of that from my PCP, Onclologist, Endocrinologist and Nephrologist...
I just want to know if anyone's tried this approach to weight loss and if it's worked for them.