Is that to me?
I'll answer anyway!
Yes, and wish I had done it sooner. I try not to be evangelical about it. I tried the injections but just avoided injecting because I didnt like the needle. Tried the tablet form of one of them (cant remember the name) and the side effecgts were completely different from the injection version and made me ill. I had no side effects from the injection version. I was on Wegovy for the injections. I would have stayed on that and lost the weight that way if I had been able to be consistent with it
So another failure and Im peri menopause and the doctor had mentioned that WLS was going to be my only solution and I thought 'what does he know' and that made me wonder if that was an option for me. He wanted me on the waiting list but I knew I would be waiting around 4 years, having then made the decision (after months of research) I just wanted it done
Lost 9-10 stone
I eat very little and once at proper target will need to work out how I increase this, as I need to exercise. My life is completely changed. I wont even bore you with the list of things that are different. I was never an 'unhealthy' eater but I am incredibly greedy so just needed a physical mechanism to stop wanting that. Portion size is the key to weight loss, boring but true.
Most days is porridge and dried fruit, then salad with protein or curry, or chilli, or stew and then the opposite for tea. Plenty of snacks through the day if I can as you need to eat little and often. Lots of protein, low carb (cant even eat certain carbs even if I wanted to, which I dont want to), trying to increase veg and salad but its hard because of the volume it takes up but Im now at 18 months and Im seeing a difference with volume for veg now. Low sugars where possible as they can make you ill. I came over funny today having had a hot chocolate in the car (squished up tummy so very uncomfortable) and then some cake somewhere. Big mistake.
Im mindful of the research about the need for food transferring to other substances like the poster says about about alcohol, that is a higher risk, as is suicide, as is divorce (I'll leave you to figure out why that is the case!)
If I have any transference of over indulgence activity I would say its shopping, but then I always did that but couldnt find nice things to wear, now Im all over the shops buying nice things
Eating out is difficult as I have to pick places carefully so that Im not rushed (have to eat VERY slowly) and that I can sit and have liquid prior to a meal, not with the meal (dont really drink alcohol), so limits us to bars, tapas, bistros etc. We do eat out still though and enjoy holidays.
My supplement regime is hard, you need to stay on top of it. I have private bloods done to check things over. NHS doesnt test for lots of the stuff I have done.
I have masses of loose and wrinkled and sagging skin. Dont care!