Carnie Wilson: Band over Bypass
Carnie Wilson was not the first to get band over her failed bypass weight loss surgery. This is an operation that Dr. Simpson has been doing, and advocating for years, in addition to band over sleeve gastrectomy, band over duodenal switch, and bands associated with plications.
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What It Takes to Lose: 5 Years After Weight Loss Surgery
Weight loss surgery is a tool, it is not the brain – it is just a tool. No matter which tool for weight loss surgery you use, if you expect that the operation will do the work for you, then you will not be successful. No weight loss surgery will tell you what to eat, how much to eat, and how to eat.
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Diet is About Food Choices Not Restriction
You have to be accountable for what you eat; you have to measure it so you can manage it; and you have to know the foods that don’t work well with the lapband.
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Master Your LapBand
The Lap-Band is a great tool, but a lousy master. Do not let the band determine how much you will eat, what you will eat, or how fast you will eat. Follow some simple guidelines and you will do just fine.
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Successful Patients Become Food Snobs
Successful patients become food snobs. They won’t tolerate food that is made by fast food places, chain restaurants. They learn to cook differently, and eat well. Learning to cook for some, and unlearning bad cooking habits for others.
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It Doesn’t Work if You Stay the Same
Weight loss means you have to change things. It means you have to eat differently, you have to eat better, you will eat better food, you will taste better food – and food that will be used as fuel, not stored as fat.
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