I see these headlines on the glossy magazine covers at the checkstand...
..."I lost 354 pounds without surgery!"
...."Ricki Lake lost weight without surgery!"
....."weight loss without surgery!"
As if this is a good thing. Sadly, the public has this misconception that WLS is a BAD THING.
WLS is not a magic wand. It is not a miracle (well, fat people think so, but that is a different tangent). When I read about Star Jones losing all of that weight "under doctor's supervision," I was also on the WLS bandwagon. "Who is she kidding! She had the surgery!" But now I understand why she is relcutant to admit it. As if admitting to the surgery would mean she is a failure. That her money paid for her new svelte body.
It is not a quick fix. It is a tool. It is about mind control. Sure, you can cut the stomach to the size of an egg, but you still have to fix the switch in your brain to NOT eat the food.
My brother says the reason people are so fat is because "this hole (*points to mouth*) is bigger than this hole (*points to butt*). He has a point (no pun intended). PUT THE FORK DOWN!
I still pray I get the approval for the surgery. Meanwhile, I am going to find a therapist to help me deal with the loss of my best friend.....FOOD.
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I found this in another post on another site.....
strenghtens my point
"I cannot stand shows like this (Inside Brookhaven Obestiy Clinic), especially when obesity is referred to as a 'disease'. I'm sorry - but cancer is a disease...leukemia is a disease...MS is a disease - something you get that you have no control of. These people are the way they are by their OWN HAND, which usually has food in it. I'm sorry if I seem insensitive, but I'm sick and tired of overweight people who try to lose weight, then go and put on the required additional pounds just so they can qualify for gastric bypass surgery because they're too lazy to try to lose weight on their own.
My sister had GP surgery, but not because of her weight. She was severly diabetic at a young age (52). She went from being diet controlled, to pulls, to 5 insulin shots a day, to the pump to finally where her doctor suggested GP surgery just to get rid of her diabetes before she's start to have to have toes and fingers removed or her kidneys shut down. She was 190 pounds - not obese, but she was fat and she said she could deal with being fat, but her diabetes was out of control. Her weight loss following the surgery was a bonus - the true reward was her cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes all disappearing. How relieved she was to toss all her pills and insulin away and be healthy.
That's what GP surgery should be for - when you have no other options, but a lot of overweight people are using it as the easy way out to lose weight and it's becoming as common as teeth cleaning."
See why Star Jones is horrified to admit the surgery?
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