by dede4wd » May 3rd, 2006, 11:13 am
I have A LOT more to lose than you, but I'll try to help. Liposuction is a lot out of my price range (plus, if I don't change how I react to food, it's only temporary), drugs scare me (plus, it doesn't teach you not to eat the fatty food, it just blocks some of it...and there are side effects).
I have a friend who had a lap band. It didn't stop her from eating the things she wanted to eat (because she's an emotional eater), it just made the things she ate but shouldn't have come back up and made her really uncomfortable and sick a lot. Plus, she misses carbonated beverages, HATES picking what combinations she can and can't have. I'm now familiar with the term..."uh oh, I think the bread's STUCK." and she's now on Medifast ANYWAY after spending all that money on the lap band.
The thing I like about MF is that I'm learning to break my emotional eating. It took me a while, but I now consider food fuel or medicine only. I don't think any more of it than I do the gas I put in my car. For this reason, I KNOW I will succeed. Food is no longer comfort to me. Food is no longer a friend. Food is no longer a crutch. It is fuel plain and simple. None of the things you listed mentioned nutrition and fixing how you eat, so I feel that you may just be back in the same boat and that these are quick fixes. Not that Medifast isn't quick. People lose dramatic weight on this plan. You may lose a bit slower because you have so little to lose, but I believe you WILL lose. I also believe you will feel better.
My only suggestion is that I KNOW your doctor knows you are MISERABLE and is trying to think of ANYTHING to help, but dollar for dollar and for what it's worth in your head, I truly believe that giving a commitment to do MF for A MONTH with no cheats, no eating off plan and no excuses will have you feeling so good that you'll want to continue. My sugar high's and lows are gone, my mood is steady all day, my nails and hair are growing much faster and I just plain feel good.
What you do is up to you, but I think MF is the safest, most proven, least intrusive, least dangerous thing out of everything on your list. Just my 2 cents worth. Plus, with those other options, you don't have us! Hope this helps at all!
DeDe
Age: 37 Ht: 5'10"