Having a sleeved tummy is a great weight loss tool. But it is a tool. You could munch on delicious, sweet treats if you still wanted to eat biscuits and chocolate. It may be challenging to eat lots of starchy foods like doughnuts, toast, and chocolate, but not impossible.
As the weight comes off and you start feeling well again after the healing takes place, you realise how easy this is. Suppose you do not keep in check what you are eating. In that case, you could start to eat foods that are not good for you. When that happens, your old eating habits could raise their ugly heads again, and you find the way that allows you to eat fast foods, sweets, biscuits, and cakes. How often have you told yourself these words “only a small piece, please” or “one won’t do any damage”. And how many times a day did we say that?
It is time to sweep the past away and go forward in the present to a great future.
Looking at what you eat and how food makes you feel is key to eating successfully.
Before your gastric sleeve operation, let’s first look at a takeaway pizza. The ordering and the first bite will probably be the best part of that whole meal. You and I both know that once you reach for that third or fourth slice, this pizza being part of a family food deal, meaning it is enormous, and your body is telling your mind to stop, you are full, you know you are. But your tummy is stretching and tells you that you can keep going. You stop at the fifth or even the sixth slice. How do you feel? Great? Vibrant? Happy? I doubt it. Probably, stuffed, like the crust. Bloated and full of anger at yourself and you promised never to eat pizza again.
Now you have been sleeved, the pizza has been ordered, and you know you can only eat a small slice. It arrives, and you take a piece. Your first bite is delicious, and you have chewed it well. But after the third mouthful, you are eating as you used to, not chewing the food too well and eating too fast. You suddenly stop as you are full. You cannot drink as you know that this will harm what is in your full-sleeved stomach. The pizza has stuffed you up in more ways than one. It has filled you up. It is now absorbing the waters in the stomach to aid digesting, which means it is swelling up. The pizza has not given you any nutrients, vitamins, or minerals the body needs. You feel crap and completely stuffed. In your mind, as you sit there full to the brim, you swear to yourself that you will never eat that again. Have we been here before?
Stop here. You need to press reset and look at yourself inside and out.
If you eat food that has no nutritional value in it all, but the food is ok to eat with your sleeved tummy, you are looking at a whole new set of health problems that are on the horizon.
If you eat food that enriches your body, mind, and soul, and enjoy that full(ish) feeling, then you are on your way to enjoying life to the full as you lose weight.
My coaching skills will identify your weak areas and address your challenges. You will learn what foods you need to eat to feed the body, mind, and soul.
Together we will get you eating for a healthy body inside and out and enjoy every delicious mouthful.