Complete Lap Band Failure & Then Success

[pcosmommyof4 13]

My always push low carb and it works, right up until the cravings kick in. They do however want my Proteins to be leans. I can see where Atkins works with lapband, after all it is eating your solid proteins. True Results suggests 3/4c. Of food a meal and it needs to be Protein rich solid food. In order to follow that rule you are on a low carb diet.

[B-52 7,113]

Maybe it's because it's 4:30am or something, but I read this post slowly and carefully, and I'm Sorry, I don't get it.....

The band has been everything to me it was advertised to be....

Because of that, I always read posts carefully about "Failures", NOT to judge anyone, but in order for me to be forewarned of anything I need to be careful of so I do not succumb to the same fate....and I'm not getting anything.

Why was THE BAND a complete failure???

[Jim1967 3,569]

I'd rather not follow a diet whose creator is dead because he followed his own plan. High fat? Who does that?!?

Dr Atkins dying from his own diet plan is an old internet hoax. Dr Atkins died by slipping on some ice while walking in NYC and suffered major head trauma. As a former Atkins follower I can tell you Atkins done correctly can be healthy if you can adapt your lifestyle to that plan. Most cannot do it long term which is why most gain the weight back. I guess its the same with any diet. I just found the low carb easier than the low fat. I am happy to say I do neither and I am successful.

There is so much talk about high cholesterol doing Atkins. Well if your eating high cholesterol foods then what would you expect? My own Cholesterol climbed up while doing Atkins and I had to take a step back and look at what I was eating. I was a 3rd shifter at the time so I was going home every morning and having 4 sausage links and 4 scrambled eggs. I switched to turkey sausage and egg beaters and my cholesterol came right back down to better than normal.

Again is all about the choices. I cannot live my life long term on the low amount of carbs that I took in during the 18 months of success I had with Atkins. So I got banded and now I am just doing strictly Portion Control with no deprivation and it is obviously working.

Whatever works for anyone an individual is great as long as you can:

A. lose weight healthy

and

B. Keep is off

To the original poster: Congrats on your success and I truly mean that. I loved the Atkins diet for a long and found it to be the easiest diet I ever tried. It was a no brainer to me that I cut out high carbs and the weight fell off. My problem was when I hit that happy place with my goals I started eating carbs again and lost sight of what I was doing and gained all the weight back. I hope you do better. For me I think what I am doing now is something I will live with for the rest of my life but it will remain seen as to whether I can keep it off and maintain and not fall back into that hole of hitting goal and being happy just to gain it all back again.

Sorry....long winded

[Heccat2 154]

Hi Jim. Thank you for the post! I agree with everything you said! As for me, I eat carbs, but like you said, I have Portion Control. I do not feel that I should stop eating carbs completely because if that was the case, I would have never gotten the LapBand and stuck to a no or low carb diet. My doctor never tells me what I shouldn't eat. The only thing he keeps stressing to me is exercise. I have been following doctors orders and I am doing great!