Before and after LCHF
Johanna Engström has had a fantastic journey. She was inches from having gastric bypass surgery, but decided at the last minute to try LCHF instead. Fast forward around one year and she’s lost 112 pounds! And her internal organs are still intact.
Truly impressive:
Expressen (Swedish paper): How we got thin and styled like the stars (Google translated from Swedish)
They look 2 different persons. I checked her Facebook profile but cannot see anything.
Thanks.
In that time I have known 9 people who have gotten some kind of bariatric (which, not-so-ironically, my spellcheck keeps wanting to change to 'barbaric') surgery. ONE has had long-term success, and he was a male in his mid-20s. One actually almost died just last month because they had to go in and repair something minor five years later, severed a major artery on the way out, and she lost 6 liters of blood as they frantically called every available surgeon in to repair her. I don't remember the specifics now, but I had googled it when I got the news and what happened to her has a 90% mortality rate. People should NOT be cutting into their bodies and rearranging perfectly healthy organs. Lose the weight with LCHF and save the money for a face lift! :-)
Weight loss surgery is not the easy way out, not lazy, and not easy!!!!
It is only a tool. If you don't use that tool, it is useless. You still have to make the good healthy low carb food choices and you still need to get to the gym if you want to be fit.
So guys, lets not judge. Lets just support each other in our efforts to get healthy. We all have different bodies that react different ways. I support people who strive to get healthy no matter how they choose to do it : ) .
I've had a few friends have surgery, they end up on LCHF diets anyway. They just lose the weight faster and they now believe that can do it. They have no choice.
Fucking idiot.
I cried for my friend, Brooke, when she told me she had had it done .. suggested by her doctor and all in order to succumb to a positive pregnancy .
‘Hate crime’ is precisely what this procedure is: how did our medical practitioners come to view this procedure as every day acceptable??
It is startling how easily doctors recommend gastric bypass compared to how reluctant they are to suggest trying LCHF. Why it's not standard protocol to attempt LCHF first is absolutely baffling, and depressing.
Congratulations to Johanna for her success. She will be an inspiration to countless people.
-Michael