How does the sacred heart soup diet work exactly, do you end up spending quality time in the powder room? no thank you then. I was just wondering about it, for it does sound interesting.
MOMTOMARI,
Regarding the lap band, if you have lost weight in the past, and you simply need to cut back on the feed bag, and walk around the block a few times, and on a regular basis, you do not need it! please consider the simple facts, being if you eat a little too much, you can become sick. Many people have regained weight, sometimes even all of it. For the lap band is no simple cure, it helps to restrict your calories, you do not need a piece of plastic around your stomach for that, you can do that yourself. what does not go in, does not go on. remember that. also, anytime you go under anesthesia, there is a risk, that you will not wake up. No surgery is minor, not really, for that possible outcome is always present. My advice is this and I would so forget about the lap band or gastric bypass surgery (stomach stapling) also with the lap band, from time to time, you might need to have it readjusted, not just any doctor can do that, what if you are out of the country? or in some small geographic locale in the U.S. where you better start looking for bariatric surgeons and specialists, that are the closest, and what if the closest is 5,000 miles away, and you are feeling ill now!? I am sorry if I sound like an alarmist, but I don't want you to do anything to yourself, that might cause you serious illness or even death!
Also, I suggest watching Big Medicine and Inside Brookhaven Obesity Clinic, with an emphasis on Inside Brookhaven O C, for depending upon ones medical situation, it will show you what will power, exercise and cutting calories will do for you, and just as brutally will show you the opposite, if one continues on their personal downward spiral of being out of control with their eating and exercise habits.
I have more to say, but I am getting writers cramp!
Big Medicine, is about a father and son bariatric surgical team
that performs lap band and gastric bypass surgery. It is very informative and interesting, but what is sad is that many not necessarily all, but most definitly many patients, did not need this work done, they needed to go instead to Brookhaven Obesity Clinic, it is in New York.
Both shows are on the learning channel, and are most probably available on DVD's.
Long story short - I wasn't going to let my health impede my girls' opportunities and activities, so this fall I set to changing (right at Thanksgiving). I'm 5 months in and have lost 40lbs to date. It's getting a little tougher to stick with it, and I could use the support. So, room for one more who simply wants to be a better dad?
