I wanted to expand briefly on Dr. Hekier’s last post about everything having to taste good.
Everything in life has plusses and minuses. Go to a club on Saturday night and have a great time, but have a hangover Sunday morning. Buy a beautiful fast car with leather seats, pay more in insurance. Go shopping often and spend most of your paycheck, then have nothing put aside for a rainy day or retirement.
Food is no different. Yes, there are a lot of perfectly yummy things you can eat that are healthy and won’t make you overweight. But there are far more things that taste super-fly fabulous, but have no nutritional value and are guaranteed to make you fat. Does this mean you should never eat them? No, but you should follow what somebody once told Dr. Hekier is the 80/20 rule. Eat 80% of your meals for nutrition, 20% for taste. You simply can’t have the most yummilicious thing to eat for every meal if your version of yummy is chocolate covered peanut butter or fried anything. You can have treat-ish stuff 20% of the time, or 1 in every five meals, but the other 4 out of 5 meals need to be nutritional and waaayyyy inside the box. And even that 20% of the time, you shouldn’t go super-ultra wild. Is pizza your downfall? Then let your 20% be a slice or two of pizza, but not half the pie (and preferably not a double decker, stuffed crust, meat lovers delight either).
Learn how to eat to live, not live to eat. To quote Remy’s father from the Disney movie “Ratatouille”, “Food is Fuel”. I’m not saying to eat tasteless bland crap 3-4 times per day, but do look at each meal as an exercise in taking in the nutrition you need – the protein, the calories- and not as a chance to find the most fabulously delicious thing on the menu. Look at a menu trying to find the lowest fat, lowest calorie source of protein on there, not the double battered chicken fried steak with gravy. If you change your fundamental approach to food, then dieting and maintaining your weight becomes a habit, not something you have to constantly fret over and work on.
22. December 2009 at 7:30 pm
OOPS! We just had chicken fried steak with gravy. Does it help if its deer meat? My 12 year old daughter killed it. Also in my defence I did not enjoy it. LOL.
24. December 2009 at 11:58 pm
Everything in moderation. Next time try a healthier alternative. One bad choice won’t kill you, but recognize that you could have had a healthier alternative and work towards eatier healthier for most of your meals.
Keep us informed with your progress.
BTW, not liking it is no defense, unless your 12 year old had a bow pointed at your head threatening you to eat it.
29. December 2009 at 1:29 am
Had to reply to your response Dr. Hekier. hahahahahahahahah!! I loved it. The other response is this. Remember there are other ways to show your daughter you were excited about her triumphant kill. Mount the horns, blow up the picture I’m sure you have and display it in a prominent place. Food is used way too much today to not only nourish the body but to celebrate triumphs, comfort failures, reward good behavior, congratulate graduates, new moms, birthdays etc. That is when we need to step up, examine the relationship with food and figure out other ways to comfort, celebrate or reward. Remember that it is ok to skip the entree. I can say one thing, If you are going to trip up then make sure it is with something you really like otherwise you are still going to go on a search for that instant gratification that the enchilada’s gave you. OOPS, that was me, I meant deer meat.
31. December 2009 at 11:13 pm
Lori,I have been been having problems lately not eat what I should and also I have had problems with my knee I have been off from work since 12/8/09. I had knee surgery on 12/22/09. I am still on medical leave and not have active due to my knee I have a follow-up appointment with Dr.Hekier on 1/4/10 and Dr.T.Young on 1/4/10. I will try to get back on track one day at a time. I will try to be at the support group meeting on second monday of Jan. at Wadley.
17. February 2010 at 2:39 am
I remembered something else I wanted to ask, how many Lap Band surgeries have each of you done?
17. February 2010 at 4:49 pm
As of this date we have performed about 1,400 Lap Band procedures. Thanks for coming to the blog!