Billy Gardell

And I did that.

And I followed every single rule they gave me.

And I lost the weight successfully.

I hired a nutritionist so that I could kind of get the mental part of this done.

Because that's really what it is.

It's not your...

not your portions and what you're eating that stuff all plays into it but the real change comes between your ears if you're not ready to mentally change everything nothing will stick and i finally found something for me that would stick i don't tell anybody what they should do but i do tell people if they're going to have this surgery make sure you study about what you have to do on the other side of it

to maintain it because it's still just a window.

One in four people go back to being heavy after this surgery.

So I've been very blessed that way.

No.

It's not something you stop doing.

That's right.

You still have to keep eating.

So you have to retrain.

At least I had to retrain my brain on my relationship with food.

And my nutritionist, a woman named Terry Ublick –

really changed the way I thought about food, how I reacted to food, what I used food to comfort, what I used food to celebrate.

And she really started making me look at food as fuel.

And what kind of fuel do you want to put in there?