“You’ll gain it back. You’ll see.”
I’ve posted on here about my mother who keeps trying to push the cabbage soup diet on me because it helped her lose 50 in 3 months back in the 80’s. We just got into it trying to discuss healthy weight loss.
She has diabetes. She keeps saying “oh, I’ll just get the gastric sleeve. It’ll make me lose a bunch of weight and I won’t be diabetic anymore.” It’s about the 4th time I’ve heard her mention it, and typically I don’t respond to it at all, but today, I decided to try to have a conversation with her about it. I told her “you know, you can’t just go in and get the gastric sleeve like it’s some quick fix. Before you’re even approved, just about any doctor will see if you’re able and willing to lose some weight on your own first. And if you do get the procedure done, you have to eat healthier and more balanced afterwards. You can’t go back to eating the way you do now, or else you’ll gain all the weight back.”
She said “Well, I’ll just go back on the cabbage soup diet. That’ll help me lose the weight to show the doctor I know how to. And any time I see myself regaining, I’ll just go back in the diet.”
I said “If you ask me, that’s not the healthiest mindset. It has to be a lifestyle change. You’ve got to learn how to eat balanced meals. You can’t just eat cabbage soup, it’s a fad diet and not sustainable.”
She asked “Well what did you eat for breakfast this morning?”
I said “I had yogurt with granola and 2 hard boiled eggs.”
She said “That’s a diet!”
I said “I’m eating a healthier diet, that I plan on maintaining for the rest of my life, hopefully. It’s not a fad diet.”
She goes “you can call it ‘eating healthier’ or whatever but it’s a diet. And Corksncoffee, I’ve tried diet after diet in my lifetime, and let me tell you... they never work long term. You’re think you’re going good, you lose the weight. But one day you’ll fall off the wagon. You may be losing weight right now, but one day, you’ll gain it all back. You’ll see.”
My support system, ladies and gentlemen! I just wanna prove her wrong.
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