Might have to cancle my Gastric Sleeve surgery
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Yeah, you've got this! Avoiding invasive surgery and taking matters into your own hands ... total win.
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*eats a spoonful of coconut oil in tribute*5
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This is seriously awesome! Congratulations!!!2
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Wow, congrats! Keep it up.
How many grams of carbs did you achieve this at? I'm in a simular situation and this is very inspiring.1 -
Wow, congrats! Keep it up.
How many grams of carbs did you achieve this at? I'm in a simular situation and this is very inspiring.
I was pretty strict at keeping around 15 total carbs for the first 6 weeks. now that I am fat adapted, I have moved between 20-30g total carbs, but still strive for under 20.5 -
That is soooo awesome!! My aunt had traditional gastric bypass and lost over 100 pounds years ago. She has still struggled with the last 25, but has never regretted the surgery. However, she does have issues with absorption of nutrients and has to carefully monitor them. She has had to get IV iron several times. She has recently started LCHF and loves it. There are pros and cons to every situation. Cheers to success!!5
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Thank you for sharing such a joyous story. Congratulations!2
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Fab, you're doing amazingly!2
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In my opinion, only a quack would recommend surgery at 225 pounds. Keto on! You are doing fantastic!10
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Fantastic!! Good for you, keep going with this healthy lifestyle you've adopted, it's clearly working for you (and us).3
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Great job! Keep up the good work.1
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Scochrane86 wrote: »
@Scochrane86 I just love your story. Mine is very different yet similar.
I went to the doctors in Aug 2014 because of the lack of mobility due to joint and muscle and being obese (BMI of 35). I was to come back the first of Nov 2014 to get set up to start Enbrel injections. After some reading I knew the side effect risks were greater than I wanted plus my wife who is a pharmacist said I did not want to go there. The cost of $2700 monthly even from Walmart sounded like a lot of money.
With an understanding from some source in the back of my head that if I would stop eating foods containing added sugars and any form of grain that I would be OK I decided to try that route first.
After totally failing to taper off sugar and grains Aug-Sept 2014 in desperation to dodge the Enbrel risks bullet I stopped all sugar and and all grains the first of Oct 2014. That is when I learned about ketosis after the fact. I went into the office one morning and Googled 'Dying from coconut oil' then the light bulb turned on.
I kept my 7 Nov 2014 appointment but since my pain levels of 7-8 for 40 years had dropped to pain levels of 2-3 levels in only 30 days so I said no to the Enbrel injections. The young doctor was from India and said he moved to the USA to practice with drugs and now I was using coconut oil as medicine like they do in India. The weight loss did not start until day 45.
Keep up the great success that will keep paying dividends for the rest of your life.13 -
Keep going and if you can avoid the surgery, by all means it seems that this should be your route. This is so good to read!1
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Good for you!! That's totally awesome!! I really wish that doctors would recommend at least trying a Ketogenic diet for a few months before any type of weight related, and/or sleep apnea related, surgery. They wanted to do 2 surgeries on me for my sleep apnea -remove my tonsils & fix a deviated septum. Turns out that keto was really all I needed. Glad I never did the surgeries. I was really thinking about doing it still -up until just a few weeks ago. Everyone is different though. Regardless, I hope you hit your target weight with Keto!! Keep up the good work!!4
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motorcyclekopp wrote: »Good for you!! That's totally awesome!! I really wish that doctors would recommend at least trying a Ketogenic diet for a few months before any type of weight related, and/or sleep apnea related, surgery. They wanted to do 2 surgeries on me for my sleep apnea -remove my tonsils & fix a deviated septum. Turns out that keto was really all I needed. Glad I never did the surgeries. I was really thinking about doing it still -up until just a few weeks ago. Everyone is different though. Regardless, I hope you hit your target weight with Keto!! Keep up the good work!!
I got sucked into an episode of my 600 lb life where someone weighing about 675 was told by the doc to lose 50 lbs in the next 30 days by eating 0 carb before he would consider doing the surgery. She lost more than that. I had to watch another episode just to see if this was normal, and sure enough the same thing happened. At least that doc gets it.6 -
AWESOME!!!!!1
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cstehansen wrote: »I got sucked into an episode of my 600 lb life where someone weighing about 675 was told by the doc to lose 50 lbs in the next 30 days by eating 0 carb before he would consider doing the surgery. She lost more than that. I had to watch another episode just to see if this was normal, and sure enough the same thing happened. At least that doc gets it.
Wow that's cool. I don't think I've ever watched that show. I'll have to check that out & look for that episode. You got me interested now.1 -
Yes @cstehansen is right! Dr. Now does have all pre-gastric patients do a no-to low carb diet 30 days prior to surgery. Mostly to get them used to eating LOTS more protein which their body will need to function once they have the surgery. There was one patient who had the surgery and lost tons of weight but got very ill because she didnt like eating soo much meat and wanted to eat carbs. Well with the sleeve, your body does not process food the same and she was very malnourished, she had to get hospitalized. It's by no means an "easy way out". It should only be used in extreme cases where all other methods have been tried and failed imo4
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@Scochrane86 Did you have your appointment with your dr yesterday? What did they say?1
