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I honestly I love a lot of low carb foods, so I think it will be easier for me to maintain that lifestyle if I am sleeved since I will get full fast. I will need to address the mindless eating separately with counselling, but I feel that I will be far more in control and aware of my eating and what I am putting in after having this done.

I honestly I love a lot of low carb foods, so I think it will be easier for me to maintain that lifestyle if I am sleeved since I will get full fast. I will need to address the mindless eating separately with counselling, but I feel that I will be far more in control and aware of my eating and what I am putting in after having this done.

I chose Dr. Illan and was sleeved on 3/8. I can not recommend anyone but him. I had a ton of preop and post op support. My friend was sleeved in the US and doesn't have access to her doctor directly. I have access to my doctor and my nutritionist at anytime, by phone, email, or Skype. My friend also didn't have any post op with her nutritionist. She was sleeved at Baptist hospital in Little Rock, AR and comes to me for help. I highly recommend my doctor in TJ Mexico. It was the easiest recovery time of any surgery I have ever had.
I too had a problem with carbs but now... I just can't eat them. They make me overly full and my weight loss stops. I had a sweet tooth but now I can't take more than one small spoonful of anything sweet because it makes me feel awful. Please please please talk to Bill at Bariatric Pal. You will not be disappointed.
I also had a friend that used Dr. Q. She had a good experience but she now wished she would have went with me. Her post op support has stopped and she has to research for answers. I know nothing personally about Dr. Q just a friends experience.
Please feel free to email me with questions. I would love to help. chasitylane34@yahoo.com
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@@aster Surgery is just a tool. Be sure to get help with the emotional/mindless eating before surgery - as you will need to eat healthy and low carb to be successful.

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I have lost weight successfully doing every diet under the sun, and Atkins was by far the best of the bunch. I also achieved my lowest weight that way by 20 pounds (except for the total starvation diets - stupid stupid, do not do that) and managed to keep most of the weight off for 4 years. Most successful diet in my history. Then I decided to eat bread.
Now that I am sleeved and fully healed, I have put myself back on Atkins. The low fat diet after surgery while fine during recovery, had me feeling hungry all the time and I was stalling out constantly. After 3 weeks of no weight loss, I switched to a low carb/high fat (induction level) diet as an experiment, my stall broke in 2 days and I promptly dropped 7 pounds in a week and a half. This past week I started adding back a few carbs.. mainly fruits and veggies, and not only did I stop losing, I gained a pound. As of today I am back to nixing the carbs entirely.
My point is that even with the surgery, if carbs are a problem for you now, they will likely still get in your way later. And things like chips, pretzels, crackers and such, are the easiest foods to eat and still feel like a bottomless pit. The benefit now tho, is that if I can control myself long enough to eat Protein and fat first, I get satisfied quickly and have no room for anything else.
Best of luck!