Hi - I'm so happy you had success with Weight Watchers and I agree that one has to change one's lifestyle and not think of eating as "a diet," but rather an eating plan/way of eating for life.

I have MS and have read Dr. Wahls. I just cannot eat 9+ cups of vegetables and the organ meats she advocates!

I'm eating lots of protein and good fat, "slow" carbs: veggies, mostly beans. Surgeon 2's colleague David Ludwig, M.D. wrote _Always Hungry?_ and that's the book he recommended to me. I can give up sugar. My downfall is potatoes. That's it. I love pasta and bread too, but can let them go if I can eat potatoes!

My PCP is very supportive and tells me that there are no good studies that point to weight loss being a factor in TKR outcomes. Lots of thin people have TKRs and have complications. Ditto almost every illness: she sees just as many thin people with health problems as she does large people. She's very fat friendly, even though she's a tiny woman. She also knows I have a very stubborn set point and that my body fights to hang on to every pound. This is so frustrating!