OK, so I'm doing this protein-sparing modified fast diet, which is required by my nutritionist prior to surgery. This is not the pre-surgery diet, but a way to prove to them that I can follow a food plan. I am allowed only 9oz of meat daily.

So, I was struggling through it, barely making it. Today, there was a presentation by the CEO of my company held at the local Marriott. I didn't know attendance was mandatory until this morning.

I got there and they were serving a full Breakfast. I was so damned upset, watching 200 people eat while I drank Water. I am starving. Literally, STARVING. I couldn't handle this. Five hours later, I still feel like crying.

This diet has been the most traumatic food-related experience of my life. I am so stressed.

The only positive thing here is that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Today is my last day and I see my nutritionist tomorrow. After that, I will be going out for lunch. I will NEVER EVER do this diet again. I keep thinking Weight Watchers is a much better option.

I just can't wait to get the band. Six weeks after surgery, I think I will be eating real food. I am SO sick of MEAT, for now. I'd give my left arm for a salad or piece of fruit.

-Theresa

Does your surgeon actually sanction this? I mean, it's downright cruel and not healthy from any perspective. Hell, since they're asking you to demonstrate such crazy feats of will power, they can freaking send you to audition for Survivor! Even those guys are given a sack of rice. :smile:

OMG this is the most hilarious thing I have heard all week. Thank you! I needed the laugh and badly.

Survivor would be an improvement. Can't they at least eat natural fruits & veggies found in the wilderness?

Truth is, I *am* a survivor for getting through this diet for 5 hellish days.

I'm asking a lot of tough questions when I see my nutritionist tomorrow. Thanks for the advice.

Good for you. You also have my permission to tell them that this chick on the internet thinks he or she is on crack for making you do this.

*big grin*

You know when you have your apt. on tomorrow i would take a steak knife, fork, and bib in the office and bang them on the desk...lol.. and ask what was the real goal out of what they had you to do. I would have told them to go straight to hell and dont collect $200, don't pass go either... straight to hell....lol... When you do eat on tomorrow just get something that you really really want because at this point you may not be able to eat a lot because your stomach has flipped inside out.. lol...

How does this prove anything to the nutritionist? Unless she follows you around day and night how does she know what you are eating?

The hospital I am going through requires a 10% weight drop and they suggest what is basically a low-glycemic index diet.

I havent had an experience that has really stressed or traumatised me mentally but I did Atkins once for six weeks.

My god, that was the most horrid experience of my life. I found it a disgusting way to eat. It really turned my stomach, the food was so revolting I didnt WANT to eat it which is why I lost so much weight. All I could envisage was my arteries filling up with saturated animal fat. I looked awful, I felt disgusting - my skin broke out, my hair was lank and greasy and I looked exhausted and grey. I had no energy, I felt sick the entire time - and I didnt even do the induction phase, my mum wouldnt let me. I was put on it by a nutritionist at the age of 16 when I broke my hip because I was 84kg at the time, which was about five kgs overweight for my height. I lost about 10kgs in that six week period but it wasnt healthy weight, it looked awful, it all went from round my neck and I looked gaunt, I got down to 73 kg which is only a bit more than I am now, but I looked about 10 years older than I do now.

After I started getting argumentative, agressive and well, psychotic, my mother made me stop. I put on 14kg in 3 weeks.

Nobody will ever convince me that Atkins is healthy, sane or a good way to eat.

Hey Celticdreamer,

I've done the Atkins diet before (of course I lost weight and gained it all back). At least you can have vegetables and salad, which provides some fiber, vitamins, and variety. I think your nutritionist is bonkers! Hats off for sticking with it! Do you have a surgery date yet? Good luck and keep all of us posted!

Hi again everyone!

You all are so darned supportive. I am very very happy that I found this site.

No, I don't have a surgery date set yet. I am still a bit nervous about insurance approval. I used to work for Cigna but left there because I heard bad things about them regarding weight loss surgery. I now have Empire BCBS and I'm reading good things about them, so hopefully it'll all work out. My BMI is 49, or at least was until I went on this diet on Monday. I'm sure it's lower now!

Well, I'm off to get ready to go to my nutritionist. This ought to be an interesting visit.

Will definitely post when I get home!

-Theresa

theresa,

let us know how it goes... good luck!

What a whack!! Can't wait to hear from you after todays appt!

Funny thing is if they are just looking for ketosis you could have eaten all the meat you wanted and also threw in some eggs and cheese.

Nobody will ever convince me that Atkins is healthy, sane or a good way to eat.

I aint responding to this to change your mind about atkins. However the diet isn't quite that bad when done right. Sure the 1st two induction weeeks are insane but after that you can have a little bit of carbs. Just enough to make other selections of food , like low carb bread ad vegetables.

Heck I've seen what people's menus on these forums look like after they get restriction and most of them are following the atkins diet and don't even know it. Little chicken, little vegatables, sugar free drinks. Thats all atkins type diet.

Theres two flaws withthe atkins diet and these flaws are actually the person's fault not atkins.

1. Atkins only requires strict no carb diet for two weeks then you can slowly eat more per day till you find the "sweet spot" no pun intended. Here most people think tsaying on the induction period for the full duration of the diet will make the lose wieght faster and their inablitly to research what else they can have that is low carbs, keeps them just eating meat/cheese/ eggs till they get that greasy,sick, clogged arteries feeling and quit.

2. Atkins diet is "UNFORGIVING". meaning you can't cheat. At all. You cheat and you will gain weight and have to start all over with the induction two weeks.

Atkins can be healthy if done right. But like every thing else you have to work at it and be commited.

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Funny thing is if they are just looking for ketosis you could have eaten all the meat you wanted and also threw in some eggs and cheese.

That is EXACTLY what I was thinking.

The trouble with the Atkins diet is that as soon as I started adding the "good carbs" back into my diet, I stopped losing, and started gaining again. I just didn't want to be on induction for the rest of my freaking life, because YUCK. To even think of eating one more bite of meat made me want to gag. I can't eat scrambled eggs anymore, and hard boiled eggs are iffy.

Luckily, with my band, yes, I do eat more meat and veggies than I do of potatoes, bread and stuff, however, it's a hell of a lot less than I ate before which is WHY the lap-band works for me when Atkins didn't. It allows me to eat a lot more like a normal person than someone who is on a diet. YAY for the lap band!

I can't wait for an update from the OP on this...

my diets only to shrink my old liver for my op in 5 days, i can have one slice of bread in the morning and for lunch 2 eggs and green salad and 1 fruit, dinner is small fish(steamed) v small spud and green veg and a youghurt....

now let me tell you wot i do for a living...:thumbup: IM A CHEF:huh2: and im with food all day AND i work in the clinic where im have op done so all eyes are on me this week...my ops on wensday and im doing the Breakfast shift then going up to my room to get preped:cool2: go thing is i know everyone and know that im in the best hands in the uk:wink2:

ps iv lost 3lb in 2:thumbup: days

It sounds as if they forgot to give you the second page of that diet!

Seriously, it doesn't sound healthy.

I personally know a DOC who was on some weird diet. We hadn't seen him in about two months and WOW had he lost some weight. He reported around 70 lbs in 12 weeks.

I told him that I was investigating the band and asked him what he was doing.

The Sadkhin Complex®

This is his plan. You tape balls to your ears and then eat fruit and veggies alternating with whole milk. THATS IT! No freakin wonder why a person would lose weight.

Now he is a physician but I guess we have all reached that "I have to do something drastic" phase. I know I have.

He did this for 12 weeks and says he does eat normally now. We see him once or twice a month usually....I'm sure when he goes back to eating normally it will all come back...like it always does.

PLEASE ask you Doc how he/she feels about this drastic food restriction.