And yes, the only way for me to lose my body fat and keep the toned physique I like, is to eat this way. I just wish I had found this out sooner.

It’s a bit like trying to convert a true believer to a new religion.

If I understand correctly, you lost weight on low-carb diets, but would go off of them and regain? If that’s the case and the band keeps you from filling your stomach with starches and re-igniting the weight-gain cycle, then I hope it works for you.

For the Canadian who was asking about getting Fat Head in Canada, you can order it from amazon.ca. It takes a little while to get it, but get it you do.

If those who’ve had the surgery done have to follow a low carb diet for life, then why are we still being told that the low carb is harmful? Sounds to me like some just want the money the surgeries bring in….

When I read the post-surgery guidelines, I nearly fell out of my chair. Can’t eat starch? Try doing that without the surgery and see what happens.

The not so funny is that I know people who have had bariatric surgery, and I know several people who think it is their only answer. It makes me mad and sad. I can’t seem to say anything to these people I care about that has any effect on the powerful magical thinking that caused them to accept the idea that SURGERY will cure the OBEEZITY and that it is the BESTEST, SAFEST, EASIEST and most CERTAIN way to Perfekt Health TM!! (because it’s really really not about wanting to look better, it’s only about health. Puh leez.) I can’t get them to realize that the surgery will probably maim them, and that there are other options. One person is being driven to get the procedure because his wife thinks he will die if he doesn’t lose weight. It’s true that he is struggling with out of control blood sugar — but IMHO he needs to learn to use his insulin right, and he’s better off doing that before he goes into surgery– because out of control blood sugar could kill him on the table. I’m sick with worry. Sorry to dump. I would love to show your movie to everyone I know.

I sincerely those people read up on what their diets will be like afterwards. Tiny portions, no bread or other starches … for pete’s sake, give up the sugar and starches now, and you won’t have to maim yourself. Maybe you could show them the post on the lap-band procedure so they know what they’re in for, plus the Jimmy Moore interviews so they’ll understand people can lose hundreds of pounds and still enjoy a real meal.

That’s what I don’t understand about this procedure … how is shrinking your stomach supposed to make hunger go away? Research is pretty conclusive that hunger isn’t the result of an empty stomach; it’s the result of running low on fuel at the cellular level. And hunger only goes away when your cells are fueled, whether your belly is full or not.

Give yourself a tiny tummy that can only hold a few ounces of food at a time, and it seems to me you’d be running short on fuel constantly.

It seems to me that if you went on a Lap-Band diet before surgery, you wouldn’t need the surgery. I suppose expensive medical procedures are good motivators for some people. It’s like losing a lung to make one consider giving up smoking.

The lap-band surgeons should counsel potential patients to give up all bread, potatoes, starchy vegetables and sugars for a couple of months and see how the body responds. Then, if the patient isn’t losing weight and isn’t showing improvement in insulin resistance, they could talk about the surgery.

I would guess that they do have to talk about the post-surgery diet, but I would also guess they sugar-coat it (no pun intended).

I was pretty steamed when I saw it as well. I’m glad nobody was recording me at the time.