What if someone told you not to eat fried chicken, French fries, pizza, or other yummy foods anymore? These foods have been lifelong favorites of mine, but after gallbladder surgery last year, I can no longer eat these foods without getting a stomach ache.
You have no idea how hard it is to resist curly fries, BLT sandwiches, fried shrimp and the list goes on! I have to order everything grilled and avoid greasy foods. Grilled is better than not being able to eat certain things at all, but it doesn’t taste as good as fried. It’s been a huge adjustment, but the one positive outcome is that I have lost 50 lbs since October of last year. A lot of people ask me what diet I am on, and I tell them it’s not a diet of choice, but rather a diet of “I have no choice.” It’s been a bitter sweet experience of major change and accomplishment (50 lbs!).
If I knew I could lose this much weight by just switching to grilled foods, would I have switched many years ago? Probably not (just being honest). It’s amazing how certain situations in life force you to make changes you are not happy about in the beginning, but then after a while, you are glad it happened.
How do you adjust to change? Are you a creature of habit or do you adjust well to the curve balls life throws at you?
Chao for now, Leslita
