Susan Maria Leach
Founder of Bariatric Eating
Author Before and After - Living & Eating Well After Weight Loss Surgery (HarperCollins Publishers)
Today I am insanely happy!!! Thank you Lynnda for letting me know about Mounjaro. I had NO idea it would work when everything else had failed. I've gone through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Eve and stayed the course with a pound or two per week. My total is now 35 pounds.
The way down is much better than the trip up
I cannot believe how much smaller I am after just four months and 35 pounds having melted away! Thirty five pounds is a lot of weight. More so when you lose it, as opposed to having gained it! My slinky dresses look fantastic on me, people are noticing and complementing me. I am an apple, meaning I have smaller legs and arms and carry my weight around the middle, so any weight loss is most obvious from my chest to hips. WOW, WOW, WOW. Even my shoes fit better and I can more easily walk in my highest heels.
Go ahead, have a baked potato!
After my Bariatric Surgery over 20 years ago I made permanent changes to my diet. I eat really well with meals made up of protein and lots of vegetables, but the addition of a little pasta, baked potato, whole grain bakery style breads, and fruit has not only made me happy but also makes the GLP1 medications work better.
No regerts, well maybe one small one.
The Mounjaro has fixed what has been broken inside me. I can finally be the person I was meant to be. THIS is the size and life I was supposed to have had if my metabolism worked properly for all of these years. My only regret is having had my stomach dissected and my intestines bypassed via Bariatric Surgery over 20 years ago. It seemed like a good idea but with the discoveries being made in studies of the GLP1 drugs, it is no longer a good option. It is no longer needed. I really wish I had not butchered my organs, but it’s too late and life goes on!
Ding Dong, Bariatric Surgery is dead!
If you are considering Bariatric Surgery, STOP RIGHT NOW! Unless you are super morbidly obese and a candidate for My 600lb Life, you do NOT need surgery. There are many many people in Facebook Groups who have lost 100, 125, 150, and even 200 pounds using Ozempic and Mounjaro, and in a shorter time than if they’d had Bariatric Surgery. It is mind boggling. No more surgery, it just didn’t work out long term. These GLP1 drugs will be the end of Bariatric Surgery except for the most extreme cases. Surgeons who are smart will get on the bandwagon and pivot to using the GLP1 meds to help their huge battery of surgical patients who are struggling. Or make it a requirement of surgery for patients to spend 6 months on a GLP1 med before surgery. If you can avoid it, don't go under the knife.
Eat right and take a shot
If you have already had Bariatric Surgery and even after changing your habits, slowly gained back some of the weight you lost, it was not your fault. If you have never reached goal, GLP1 medications will get you there and keep you there. The one caveat is that you MUST use this opportunity to clean up how you eat. No more fast food, convenience foods, frozen dinners, processed foods, preservative packed sweets or candy.
No more cabbage soup diet?
The good news is that you can have some pasta, a little bread, some potato, sweet potato. You can go to Chick Fil A and have chicken strips and eat a couple waffle fries. Eat a slice of pizza with the family. You can be more normal than you’ve been since you had your Bariatric Surgery. No more extreme dieting, no more keto, no more Intermittent Fasting, or Atkins. Even Weight Watchers has flipped to using GLP1 meds with their plan and ditched the whole points thing now that Oprah has fessed up. How nice of her.
This is the news of the century for anyone with a weight problem who has really truly tried to lose those pounds. These meds are truly a blessing!
Susan Maria
