Weight Loss Surgery

Ok. I think the miracle of weight loss surgery exists for many people.
I am happy that they go through with a surgery to help them eat less but after hearing the side effects, there is no way I would do it. They tell me how they can only eat one bit of food before throwing it up…well, it doesn’t go down. So, they take these people who obviously use food as a crutch or as an addiction and take this option away from them. Then, they are smacked in the face with reality or their problems. They can no longer turn to food for comfort so they act out in other ways...sometimes booze, sometimes sex, or develop other eating disorders.

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Case in point: My friend is a severe diabetic. She has to take shots of insulin 2 times a day. I see her shotgun real Cokes (could send a diabetic into a coma), eats French fries like no tomorrow and then sucks down menthol cigarettes like no one's business. She wonders why she is red, out of breath, suffers from migraines, all kinds of kidney stones and overweight. So, her answer is to get the lap banding surgery instead of changing her diet. She was on a total liquid diet for a month. I thought she was going to sh00t someone because she couldn't eat.

She lost 20 pounds.

Now, she has a little devise in her stomach that controls how much she can eat...well, get to her stomach. Anything that is too big or not chewed enough, won't make it through and come back up. What kind of way is that for someone to live? If you are an addict to food, you cannot function without it. At least an alcoholic can funcition without alcohol...but food...cannot live without. That is what makes it so sad and what has to be an unpleasant life.

No thanks...I would rather eat vegetables and lean meat and candy and and sometimes hit the treadmill and forgo going under for surgery and move on...

Another case: I work with someone who was quite sucessful with her gastric bypass however she didn't do what she was supposed to do...now, she has gained weight where she never had...she had a tummy tuck so her ass is HUGE! Now, she is looking to get it done again...

But, hey, whatever works for you...you must be at wits end to go under for something like this...