As a WLSer, we are given a tool to help us lose weight. Along with that tool our surgeons give us a set of guidelines on how to maximize the effective use of that tool in our lives. If you follow those guidelines, you are all but guaranteed that your surgery will work, and you will not only lose weight but keep it off.
There’s just one problem. We’re human.
For many of us, rules are meant to be broken. We get complacent. We get lazy. We get… Whatever it is, there’s going to come a time where we “break the rules”.
And ya know what? That’s ok.
Well, it’s ok as long as you don’t kid yourself about it and start thinking it’s ok to do so again and again and again.
Every decision you make about following your surgeons guidelines are going to have consequences, consequences YOU have to live with. If you make good decisions, you’ll be rewarded with good things. You lose the weight, you get healthy, you keep the weight off.
If you make bad decisions, you’ll likely lose weight more slowly than you otherwise would have (and likely not as much), you’ll end up with vitamin deficiencies, you’ll dump, you’ll regain the weight you lost…
Every decision you make will have consequences. The key thing to keep in mind, the thing to ask yourself is, are they consequences you can live with?
That’s totally true. Although I have not ever had weight loss surgery, I can relate to what you say. Following the given set of guidelines is critical whether you are a WLSer or a person who is working towards their fitness/health goals. But, especially for the WLSer, vitamin compliance is a necessary factor in order for nutrient deficiencies to be minimized or even completely prevented.