Following a path from my Statcounter, I found my face on Livin' La Vida Low-Carb, Jimmy Moore's blog that touts the low-carb lifestyle as he lost a bunch of weight that way. While in general I would agree with most of the low-carb lifestyle - as I lost my weight whilst eating "mostly" low-carb, I feel insanely guilty seeing my face on a post over there right about now. From Livin' La Vida Low-Carb:
"But is there a "better" way to eat during post-WLS to maximize your
weight loss and help you maintain long afterwards? Well, the answer to
that question was introduced to me the first time I met my friend and
fellow blogger.....
Beth is a fun-loving, fat-no-more woman excited about life after WLS
Beth
and her husband lost (get this!) over 300 pounds after they both
decided they wanted to lose weight for the sake of their health as they
planned to start having a family in the future (and congratulations are
in order to the ..... as they are expecting a child in mid-October --
it might even be a Halloween spook like my brother Nathan was! HA!).
You can read all about Beth's amazing weight loss journey by visiting
her Melting Mama blog.
What you will find there is a woman who is not only committed to her
weight loss, but understands the importance of livin' la vida low-carb
to keep her weight off.
YOU HEARD ME RIGHT -- the BEST diet
for anyone to be on after they have had WLS is LOW-CARB! Period. End of
story. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. While I don't have any personal
experience with WLS since I lost my weight completely naturally with
the Atkins diet, I do have quite a few readers at my blog who have had
the surgery and say the doctors are very much in favor of a low-carb
nutritional approach."
Jimmy, dude. I fear that as I read your post, I was eating pretzel sticks.
I'll reinterate, I'm not dieting right now, since I'm carrying a fetal suckage that seems to be growing faster than my ass is widening with eating said pretzel sticks. I'm on hiatus, and won't be following any sort of diet until this baby arrives. Then, I'll combine the benefit of nursing (an immediate usage of about 500 calories a day!) and a moderately lower-carb diet.
As for now, if it doesn't make me puke, I eat it. This will end, in approximately 3 months 18 days and 15 hours. I'm not counting.
Also, for having weight loss surgery, let me also reinterate that I Did Not Choose It to have babies. IF anything, I was hoping to become less, uhh, fertile. I already had half a scout troop at home, see? My motivation for having the procedure was to get healthy to raise the family - and be a lot more active with them, and to stop a very obvious familial cycle of obesity.
Following a path from my Statcounter, I found my face on Livin' La Vida Low-Carb, Jimmy Moore's blog that touts the low-carb lifestyle as he lost a bunch of weight that way. While in general I would agree with most of the low-carb lifestyle - as I lost my weight whilst eating "mostly" low-carb, I feel insanely guilty seeing my face on a post over there right about now. From Livin' La Vida Low-Carb:
Jimmy, dude. I fear that as I read your post, I was eating pretzel sticks.
I'll reinterate, I'm not dieting right now, since I'm carrying a fetal suckage that seems to be growing faster than my ass is widening with eating said pretzel sticks. I'm on hiatus, and won't be following any sort of diet until this baby arrives. Then, I'll combine the benefit of nursing (an immediate usage of about 500 calories a day!) and a moderately lower-carb diet.
As for now, if it doesn't make me puke, I eat it. This will end, in approximately 3 months 18 days and 15 hours. I'm not counting.
Also, for having weight loss surgery, let me also reinterate that I Did Not Choose It to have babies. IF anything, I was hoping to become less, uhh, fertile. I already had half a scout troop at home, see? My motivation for having the procedure was to get healthy to raise the family - and be a lot more active with them, and to stop a very obvious familial cycle of obesity.