[Maven]

I have done pre-gastric by-pass counseling and all of them have the 'Atkins Diet' on their list of failed weight loss plans. They all lost massive amounts of weight, but gained it back over the years.

I hope you haven't yet gone through with the bypass, and I hope that if you haven't, you'll forego it all together. What they don't tell you is that the five-year mortality rate for weight loss surgery is 30%. Yes, I'm serious - after just five years, three out of ten people will die from complications of the surgery. And, even among those who don't die, a considerable number of them will gain the weight back anyway (with the lovely side effects of constant diarrhea and vomiting).

Take it from someone who's had to lose about 250 pounds - low carbing DOES work. I've lost about 190 pounds in just over five years. YOU CAN DO IT.



Maven

[tubebender]

Way to go Maven!!! The first part is getting your head straight and the rest is easy. I feel so much better with out the sugars and white flour thingies. Three slices of extra thick lean bacon from the Micro and I'm set till 1 pm. Then a small lunch and a sane dinner. I found some small tomatoes at Costco that are fruit to me. I switched from Diet Pepsi to Diet Riet a couple of weeks ago and I'm drinking more water. I not sure about the Sucra in the Diet Riet cola as it's made from sugar and I'm getting a hunger after drinking one. My wife is a fountain of information on Atkins and other things medical.

[BibChr]

Thanks for again putting yourself right out there. Love the pix; you hang in there. You're a rich resource in these discussions. And your I DID IT post rather seems to trump the FROM WAY OVER AND UP HERE I DISDAINFULLY DISAPPROVE postings spattering this thread.

Thanks!

Dan

[Otta B Sleepin]

Kudos to you, Maven! Awesome testimony.

You've got the trump card in this discussion, that's for sure.

[Tailback]

Wow! Good for you Maven! I bet you feel fantastic now.

[TruthNtegrity]

Congratulations! You did it! Maven, you are my new diet hero. Makes me wish I had a ink-jet printer so I could print out your pics, as an inspiration to me!

Bravo! And together, we'll continue to fight those on here who think this is an unhealthy way of eating, but are considering bypass. A nurse in my Doctor's office decided she just had to have this done, 7 years ago. The Mother of 9 adopted children, they buried her last year. How tragic that she thought the bypass would solve her eating problem. It doesn't.

[Nov3]

Excellent,

One cannot argue with success