Kick the Dieting Habit

Fat Loss Quickie and guest Traci Knoppe

Yesterday I was listening to Scott Tousignant’s interview with Traci Knoppe …

I came across Traci (@TraciKnoppe) in Lynn Terry’s Elite mastermind group (and indeed she’s been a great source of help to me) I met Scott there too.   Scott’s specialty is The Fat Loss Quickie – cheekily named … where his main objective is to get people moving and he provides motivational coaching to get us off our bums (so to speak) encouraging us to simply get on with it (moving that is!).

Scott began by asking Traci about how she came to be online, of itself a pioneering story … But Traci had been invited along primarily to talk about an entirely different subject, that of her experience in undergoing Gastric Bypass Surgery …

Fern Speaks Out

To digress for a moment, this topic was highlighted here, when the speculation grew about the (then) This Morning co-presenter Fern Britton’s weight loss.  She spoke out in June 2008, when she was outed by the press.

I guess the 2-year lapse, before it was revealed, gave her time to adjust.  She held her dignity, made no apologies and didn’t lose face.  Philip Schofield and fellow co-host, stated to the Sun newspaper; “Its no one else’s business that she had a gastric band fitted, despite the public back-lash against her”.  Some defended her right to privacy, such as Observer columnist Barbara Ellen.

I think if we consider the artificiality of those who’ve bought into a Dorian Gray-esque reality where every captured moment has a price tag, I respect Fern Britton all the more.  It can’t have been an easy situation to manage.  What she did say was that she was happy with her procedure but didn’t want to influence others.

In Marked Contrast

Fern Britton comes across as someone with a sunny disposition, she and Philip Schofield often got into fits of the giggles while presenting  their morning show, and this endeared them to the nation.  She also displayed great depth and sensitivity when faced with emotionally charged subjects or interviewees with harrowing stories.

However, Traci Knoppe’s revelations give a stark contrast on what the Gastric Bypass Surgery does comprise …

Traci has a down-to-earth, genuine, mother earth personality.  She has 3-young children (still at home) and another 3 grown with children of their own.  Her husband turned house-dad and Traci (they home school their kids) have recently swapped roles as Traci’s business has really begun to soar in the world of Internet Marketing .. with her Beginner to Blogger package (available as an eCourse and just recently released on DVD) …

Her experience since her surgery, over the last 5-yrs, has been anything but a celebrity-like transformation.

Bottom line

Traci talks candidly about her history with weight from childhood and what led her to take this step. She tells Scott (@FatLossQuickie) about the physiological transformation that takes place when the gut is changed this way … the length of intestine reduced, the pre and post operation experience and the long adjustment period, including the ongoing monitoring, checkups, and inherent challenges.

Fast forward to now and Traci’s physiology has not delivered the ‘normality’ she’d set out to achieve.  And although she can now eat regularly, instead of the 1/meal/day/1600 calories (in order not to gain more weight) that was her pre-op reality, she concludes that she swapped one set of problems for a whole new ball-game.

I urge you to listen to the interview …

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