Saw a dietitian the other day and discussed my latest issues with eating, i.e. not wanting to. I was persuaded by both her and my wife to *make* myself eat even if wasn’t hungry. Whilst I can see this is a good idea instead of going for malnutrition (easily done), I feel that course of action is doing exactly what got me this fat, to begin with. Ok, all things in moderation is a good mantra, but if there’s no middle ground for someone with badly developed eating habits what hope is there?
Anyway, I decided to do what they suggested and ate that afternoon and evening, and all day yesterday. The result, amazingly enough, was that my weight increased from 125.80 kilos to 126,30 kilos. Ok, not a massive rise and I’ve obviously still got a lot hanging around in my gut, but it’s still a rise, which is something I’m trying to avoid!
Anyway, I had breakfast this morning, i.e. one Weetbix and a cup of high-protein milk. That should tide me over for a few hours. I’m off to see the wife today so I expect she’ll feed me salad again. I like salad, though I’m still not at all comfortable with the notion of *forcing* myself to eat, especially when I thought the whole point of the surgery was to help me *stop* overeating… and just eat as much as I feel I need, but as said before, I’ll go with the flow and see what happens, at least for a while. If my weight *does* start to rise, I’ll have to start doing a *real* ‘intermittent fasting’ regime for a week or two to get back on track.
On a theme, before I go, It seems I’ve been on a form of intermittent fasting for some time. I tend not to eat much, if anything after 8:00 at night and usually don’t have breakfast until 8:00 so I *am* following a form of intermittent fasting since I have a 12-hour fasting period, with intermittent ‘feeding’ during the other 12 hours! I occasionally miss breakfast and have a small lunch then a relatively small evening meal with, perhaps an apple before 8’ish so I’m actually within the guidelines!
Personall,y I think they should have just left me to get on with what was working for me, but people do like to interfere! 🙂
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