With the hope of providing an incentive and sympathetic viewpoint for both our pre-operative and post-operative patients, I would like to share my personal experience. For me, too, weight control has been an issue for a significant part of my life. As all of you know, when one is overweight, the ability to lose weight is challenged by one's work schedule, family commitments, financial constraints, and apathy or sense of hopelessness.
I think television portrays the typical surgeon's schedule relatively well. So, I don't feel it necessary to explain why my work schedule makes it hard to eat right. At home, I have a two-year-old son and a working wife that deserve my time and attention. So, exercise and dining revolve around my schedule, but I try to follow their schedule whenever my work allows it. So, that leaves little time for either exercise or good dietary planning.
Financially, my family has not been impacted anywhere near as much as others, but our home is no different than most in our need to trim waste and limit excessive spending during this difficult economy. As many of you know, healthy eating is often more time consuming and more expensive.
Finally, like many, I had accepted my weight as a consequence of factors that were largely out of my control or would require so much effort to change that it wasn't worth it. Then, due to both financial and health reasons, I decided I needed to stop this train. So, in mid-January, my wife and I started the Liver Reduction Diet or LRD. The same diet that has been shown to each of you. In a manner of two months, I can say that we both have successfully lost 10 percent of our body weight. We have started packing our lunch, reducing our eating out, and limiting our carbohydrate consumption.
It isn't easy. But, it also isn't really that hard. There is no doubt that our success comes from wholesale change in our eating behavior and the support that we have provided one another. As you know, the hard part will be the maintenance of our weight loss. So, what do I want you to take home from this. Well, we all know that it's hard to lose weight. But, the tools, like the LRD, are there. I have had as many obstacles as all of you, but I used the tools and have had success. If I can do it, then so can you!
I think television portrays the typical surgeon's schedule relatively well. So, I don't feel it necessary to explain why my work schedule makes it hard to eat right. At home, I have a two-year-old son and a working wife that deserve my time and attention. So, exercise and dining revolve around my schedule, but I try to follow their schedule whenever my work allows it. So, that leaves little time for either exercise or good dietary planning.
Financially, my family has not been impacted anywhere near as much as others, but our home is no different than most in our need to trim waste and limit excessive spending during this difficult economy. As many of you know, healthy eating is often more time consuming and more expensive.
Finally, like many, I had accepted my weight as a consequence of factors that were largely out of my control or would require so much effort to change that it wasn't worth it. Then, due to both financial and health reasons, I decided I needed to stop this train. So, in mid-January, my wife and I started the Liver Reduction Diet or LRD. The same diet that has been shown to each of you. In a manner of two months, I can say that we both have successfully lost 10 percent of our body weight. We have started packing our lunch, reducing our eating out, and limiting our carbohydrate consumption.
It isn't easy. But, it also isn't really that hard. There is no doubt that our success comes from wholesale change in our eating behavior and the support that we have provided one another. As you know, the hard part will be the maintenance of our weight loss. So, what do I want you to take home from this. Well, we all know that it's hard to lose weight. But, the tools, like the LRD, are there. I have had as many obstacles as all of you, but I used the tools and have had success. If I can do it, then so can you!
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