Carnie Wilson: Weight Loss and Diet

Carnie Wilson has dropped 40 pounds from her top post-gastric bypass weight of 208 pounds, according to OK Magazine . You may remember that Carnie, with the help of gastric bypass surgery, shed 150 lbs from her 300 lb high. However she regained weight with her pregnancy… and no doubt a diet full of processed foods. Now many of you may be asking, “she had gastric bypass, she shouldn’t have any weight problems.”

So how can gastric bypass fail? Gastric bypass is not the “cure all” everybody thinks it is. And remember gastric bypass is not without risk. Although post surgical death rates have been reported to be 0.1-2%, among MediCare patients the risk of early postsurgical mortality among 16,155 Medicare patients treated during 1997–2002 was found to be even higher: 30-day mortality rate of 2%, which rose to 2.8% at the 90-day mark and 4.6% at the end of 1 year.

So how can a gastric bypass patient regain weight, despite having a walnut-sized stomach that can only hold an ounce of food? The culprit many times are liquid and semi-solid calories. No matter how small you make the stomach, liquid calories and semi-solids such as whip cream “bypass” the gastric bypass and cause weight gain. Here’s the deal, gastric bypass is NOT the solution. Obesity is not a plumbing problem! If you don’t change your behaviors and continue to consume highly processed, calorie-rich foods you will gain weight… EVEN with a gastric bypass.

Back to Carnie Wilson…

Carnie Wilson’s Diet:

She reveals to Ok Magazine: “No sugar, no carbs, no dairy, no red meat, no flour of any kind. I’m eating blueberries, turkey bacon, egg whites, and lots of raw vegetable salads. I make my own salad dressing with apple cider vinegar. My only fat is coming from olive oil. No avocado, no roasted nuts – just raw almonds.” She curbs cravings at night with “a tablespoon of almond butter.”

She goes on to say “the only sugary thing is berries.”

One thing that is troubling is her “motivation strategy” which includes cooking comfort foods for others.. bread puddings and banana bread, but not eating it herself.  She claims she does “a lot of tasting and spitting out.”

Her workouts include Yoga and strength training.

The Celeb Diet Doc weigh in…

OK, here’s my assessment. Kudos on the salads and blueberries! These are the keys to her current slim down. Carnie needs to stop cooking comfort foods and by all means stop tasting these foods!! It’s like a smoker who says they quit smoking last week, but later tells you that they only take a couple puffs now. It tells me she is not going to stick with her current plan and will resort back to the foods that got her in trouble in the first place. Without proper behavior modification even gastric bypass will fail.

A diet misconception promoted by many “low carbers” is that blueberries are “high carb” and should be avoided. This is frankly ridiculous. You will not gain weight with unprocessed blueberries. As Hillary famously stated at the Democratic convention: “No way, No how, No weight gain with blueberries!”

“Low carbers” falsely label all carbs as bad and get the misguided notion that many fruits, such as mangos and berries, are “high carb” and will cause weight gain. False! Processed carbs will cause weight gain, not fruits. But that’s a discussion that’s best left for another post…

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