Will VLC clients maintain their loss. Probably not. Will most DIETERS maintain their loss.  Probably not.  Will folks who have made permanent changes in their habits maintain their loss.  Maybe. Hopefully.  DIETING IS HARD.  LIFESTYLE changes are hard.   Am I scared to be a WLS failure. YOU BET!  But that’s what makes me so hopeful that I’ll succeed.

All of these things are TOOLS that we need to make our changes permanent which ones are OK with you and which ones are not?

Atkins Diet  (from A)

Weight Watchers

TOPS

Overeaters Anonymous

VLCS

Scales (both food and weight)

Exercise (walking, gym, sports or whatever makes you move)

Measuring Cups

Food Journals

Weight Loss Surgery

Smaller Plates

Jenny Craig

NutraSystems

Diet to GO

Optifast

Medifast

RAW Foods Diet

Vegetarian Diet

Sugar Busters Diet

BMI Calculators

Tape Measures

Curves

Gold’s Gym

Intuitive Eating Plans

Zone Diet (to Z)

The ones that make my skin crawl probably are not the same as the ones that make your crawl.   Everyone is different.

The problem is so many folks go:

working out is hard.  Yes it is. I do  it every day (what happened to that EASY way out with WLS???)

Or  NOT eating sugar is HARD   Yes it is.. I would much rather eat Crème Brule every day than once a month or so.

Or  I wish I could eat  <insert a food here that you love but you can’t’ eat any more because YOU choose not to eat it as part of your LIFESTYLE CHANGE>.. yep I hear you I can’t eat chicken anymore on my EASY plan.    How much fun is that… I LOVE chicken.  CHICKEN does NOT love me…  the key is you can always revert to eating your “forbidden food” if you choose to.  I may never be able to chow down on chicken again… so  now what’s so easy.

Do you have to set an alarm to make sure to take all your supplements?  I do. I take vitamins twice a day, I take calcium every two hours. I take IRON.  I take fiber, magnesium, D3, and B12 every day.   I will for the rest of my life.   I do not want Rickets or ulcers so I can’t take NSAIDS.  What do you take for pain?  Pop an Aleve?  Or a Motrin?  Or aspirin?   NONE of those are options for me ever again…. Tell me again how easy this is?

And before you start telling me that this was MY CHOICE… yep it was.  And Yes I knew about these things and NO I am NOT complaining, I am just pointing out that EVERYTHING we do in our lives has hardships.  I just opted to pick what hardships I wished to endure.  I would never choose  VLC dieting as my choice for weight loss as I have NEVER known anyone who kept the weight off permanently.   Heck no one I know on a DIET kept ALL their weight off permanently as everyone goes off the diet.  Even with WLS if you don’t follow the rules you will fail.

There are rules to all diets.  There are rules to all tools..  There ARE RULES TO WLS that have to be followed to make it work…

Rules that include:

Get enough fluids (all diets)

Protein first (most diets)

MOVE your tush  (all plans say you will do better with exercise)

Plan your meals (some say 3 meals a day no snacks some say 3 meal  and three snacks a day)

Measure your portions  (even diets with unlimited veggies have you measuring some of your intake right?)

So tell me again why WLS is the easy way out?

Oh yeah I know why…. Because I have a tool that now allows me to say NO more easily to things early on.

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