Hi Everybody! I'm wondering if any of you have tried the protein supplement program using the bars and shakes here without having the surgery. I used the supplement program similar to Ideal Protein in the past and lost 45 pounds. I ate a protein supplement for breakfast, one for lunch with a 2 cup veggie filled large salad, a sensible low carb dinner consisting of meat and salad with 2 cups of veggies and another supplement for bed time snack. Has anyone else tried that? Unfortunately I went off of it and gained 1/2 back. I'm looking for support in starting that again. With their program I met with a coach who reviewed my food journal and did my body measurements each week. She was cheering me on. I am switching to the protein supplements offered through American Food Source and their site directed me to this support forum. I would like the cheerleading support from you if possible as I would have gotten from my Ideal Protein Coach.
I am confused.
Are you going for bariatric surgery?
Or are you still at the point, which so many of us had to pass through, where you are going to try and lose the weight again with supplement programs?
I know I have gone through 3 medical diets, a weightwatcher for lifetime, another modified medical diet on my own. Each time as you indicated I lost for awhile (and never all the weight I needed to lose) and then gained it back again and then some more.
I finally decided to go for the bariatric gastric bypass last 11/4/2013. I had peaked at 290. Today I am at 207 and tomorrow a bit lower since I weighed in late today. I haven't seen 207 in over 30 years!
During those 30 years I did exactly what you are thinking of doing again and again, temporarily enjoying a weight loss but not the whole required weight loss, then fell off the wagon and regained the weight again.
This time around I have dropped now close to 90 pounds. I am about to see a weight under 200 within the next couple of months for sure. The last time I saw that was around 1976 or so,.
So, we are here to support any and all who are heading to a bariatric surgery and need our support. We can relate to your experience bring you along on a learning curve, adapt to this entirely new way of life and then some.
However, it is hard for me and perhaps others in this support forum to help someone who is going one more time to try losing ALL THEIR EXCESS WEIGHT, via conventiona means and diets. We have all tried it and failed repeatedly.
Now, we are enjoying true success for the rest of our lives.
Oh and yes you can still louse up this weight loss too. However, so many of us are finding lasting success with bariatric surgery. it brings so many immediate benefits.
It is also a lifestyle change. From the point of our surgery we begin a "honeymoon" phase that lasts from one year to one and a half years. Everything is honky dory, we lose the weight and then we finally and truly reach a good weight goal and hopefully by then we have converted our eating and exercise habits to a life long lifestyle. The surgery is a tool; a very good tool and for most of us it brings success.
Best wishes,
Ralph