Comments on: One year http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/2010/05/one-year/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 20 May 2013 22:18:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sarah http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/2010/05/one-year/#comment-5782 Sarah Sun, 30 May 2010 21:13:12 +0000 http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/?p=2804#comment-5782 Yes, totally. Thanks! I never knew that about how the stomach fills only slowly - no wonder it works! And yes, 1200 calories a day without help would be a very tough thing to ask. Yes, totally. Thanks! I never knew that about how the stomach fills only slowly – no wonder it works! And yes, 1200 calories a day without help would be a very tough thing to ask.

]]> By: erica http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/2010/05/one-year/#comment-5781 erica Sat, 29 May 2010 00:48:52 +0000 http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/?p=2804#comment-5781 Congratulations, and again thanks for sharing your journey. I'll be done with my 6 month supervised diet (required by my insurance co.) in a few weeks and will then be crossing my fingers that my surgery is approved. I can't wait. The things you've shared have definitely helped me prepare for a new reality post-surgery, and to know that it is not a quick fix in any way. Congratulations, and again thanks for sharing your journey. I’ll be done with my 6 month supervised diet (required by my insurance co.) in a few weeks and will then be crossing my fingers that my surgery is approved. I can’t wait. The things you’ve shared have definitely helped me prepare for a new reality post-surgery, and to know that it is not a quick fix in any way.

]]> By: Kt http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/2010/05/one-year/#comment-5780 Kt Fri, 28 May 2010 20:42:44 +0000 http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/?p=2804#comment-5780 Congrats Jess! I can't believe that it has already been a year! You have made so much progress and I have no doubts that you will lose the last 40 lbs. :-) Congrats Jess! I can’t believe that it has already been a year! You have made so much progress and I have no doubts that you will lose the last 40 lbs. :-)

]]> By: Jess http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/2010/05/one-year/#comment-5778 Jess Fri, 28 May 2010 01:52:21 +0000 http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/?p=2804#comment-5778 Sarah--you don't sound like a jerk at all! It's a totally reasonable question. I eat about 1200 calories a day. I suppose theoretically I could have done that without surgery, but I would have been miserable and hungry nonstop, and then I would have ended up eating more than I should, and going back and forth like a yoyo, which is in fact exactly what I did for years before I had the surgery. I don't think it is reasonable to ask someone who hasn't had the surgery to stick to 1200 calories a day for the rest of their life. The way the lap-band works is by holding all the food you consume in the top of your stomach, where the nerve endings are that tell your brain that your stomach is full. So, you eat not very much and then your brain thinks you're full, and slowly over the course of the next few hours the food passes through the bottleneck created by the band and then you become hungry again. Without the band the stomach would have to be filled entirely before I felt full, meaning that sticking to 1200 calories a day would have been an unhappy and unrealistic experience for me. Does that make sense? Sarah–you don’t sound like a jerk at all! It’s a totally reasonable question. I eat about 1200 calories a day. I suppose theoretically I could have done that without surgery, but I would have been miserable and hungry nonstop, and then I would have ended up eating more than I should, and going back and forth like a yoyo, which is in fact exactly what I did for years before I had the surgery. I don’t think it is reasonable to ask someone who hasn’t had the surgery to stick to 1200 calories a day for the rest of their life.

The way the lap-band works is by holding all the food you consume in the top of your stomach, where the nerve endings are that tell your brain that your stomach is full. So, you eat not very much and then your brain thinks you’re full, and slowly over the course of the next few hours the food passes through the bottleneck created by the band and then you become hungry again. Without the band the stomach would have to be filled entirely before I felt full, meaning that sticking to 1200 calories a day would have been an unhappy and unrealistic experience for me.

Does that make sense?

]]> By: Sarah http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/2010/05/one-year/#comment-5777 Sarah Fri, 28 May 2010 00:50:43 +0000 http://www.bodiesinmotivation.com/?p=2804#comment-5777 Can I ask a question about the surgery and how you eat after it? If you are limiting your diet to what sounds to me like a reasonable caloric intake as you describe, what was the point of the lap-band? It sounds to me like you could just have adopted that diet and skipped the surgery. I am not trying to be a jerk, so I hope it doesn't sound that way: I simply do not understand how the surgery works/what it does and I'm hoping you can clear it up for me. Congrats on all those health improvements! Can I ask a question about the surgery and how you eat after it? If you are limiting your diet to what sounds to me like a reasonable caloric intake as you describe, what was the point of the lap-band? It sounds to me like you could just have adopted that diet and skipped the surgery. I am not trying to be a jerk, so I hope it doesn’t sound that way: I simply do not understand how the surgery works/what it does and I’m hoping you can clear it up for me. Congrats on all those health improvements!

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