Who Knew?!

Well the seminar at the Dietitian was a very interesting experience! I pretty much realised that after nearly 12 months, I have been abusing my band! I know - shock horror!!!! She was saying that if you eat properly and chew your food there’s no reason why you can’t eat pretty much anything, even steak! Also there’s no reason why you can’t eat bread, which was a real eye opener, I thought bread was off the menu and I haven’t eaten it for months and months. It hadn’t been bothering me all that much, but sometimes every now and again I feel like I would like to eat a sandwich! Fresh, white bread is a no/no, but things like multi grain and sourdough are fine, which is what I would always go for anyway.

I had been eating reasonably well, but I felt my choices were limited and that nearly every meal had to be covered in some kind of sauce or a ‘wet’ consistency. Not so apparently! I’m pretty sure I haven’t been eating enough either. I’m meant to be going for a fill tomorrow so I need to decide whether I get more put in or just wait another few weeks and see how I can incorporate the things I learnt and see if it makes a difference to my weight loss.

So I was very impressed, I was glad to have learnt some things and I’m looking forward to putting them into action. I went out for dinner last night and had Vietnamese and was able to eat a civilised amount which included chicken, but still not very much compared to the old days. I was extremely satisfied and it felt great that I could be out socialising and not be worried as much about having an incident and spending half the night in the toilet! The woman was really good, her website is www.helenbauzon.com.au if you want to check her out. She has a lot of good products for sale online.

Sometimes it’s hard to know what to do because I know of surgeons who have said that you should be only eating once a day and there’s nothing wrong with that and if you’re not hungry until 4.00pm don’t worry and just don’t eat! That goes against everything I’ve ever read over the years about nutrition and ‘breakfast is the best meal of the day’, etc…I’m always looking for new things to try though and different things work for different people so we shall see!

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