Sat, Jul-14-07, 05:07
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Posts: 61
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 292/244/210
BF:
Progress: 59%
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It's sooooo great your doctor is behind you (mine is too).
Could it be that the penny is finally dropping???
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As a member of the 'medical establishment' (Harvard MD married to Harvard Dietitian), I had always been 'taught' that Atkins was 'bad', though without any supporting evidence... Medical Students and residents receive almost zero training in nutrition during medical school or residency, so most of their 'knowledge' on the subject is picked up informally in conversations with colleagues, and therefore not really subject to the usual academic scrutiny. I was therefore shocked when my new personal physician recommended Atkins, but she handed me a ream of scientific studies to back up her recommendation (along with her personal experiences with hundreds of patients). After reading the materials I was totally convinced, and I'm thrilled with the decision to change to this WOE. In addition to the weight loss, my resting heart rate has gone from 85 to 57 and BP from 135/85 to 110/60 - pretty impressive changes!
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Just a note on the "lapband" sugery, my husband's aunt had that done and she doesn't look hardly different after 2-3 months - I think she had lost 11 pounds initially, but then stalled, and not much since - I heard she paid around $16,000 to have it done out of pocket, not certain if that is accurate, but I thought she would have had better results with the surgery, apparently not
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The average cost for the lap-band surgery is $12,000 - $20,000, so $16,000 is right in the middle ofthe range... What most people do not realize is that the average sustained weight loss for that procedure is only 40lbs (in patients with >100 lbs. to lose). The lap-band only reduces the size of the gastric pouch, it does not change the 'plumbing' the way the traditional 'stapling' and diversion procedures do...
As someone noted, the post-op diet after bariatric surgery is so restrictive that if you followed it without having the surgery first, you'd almost certainly lose a great deal of weight anyway...
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