Did I take the easy way out?

Feb 18, 2009

So here I am, down to 180 lbs. Everyone notices the weight loss. I'm in smaller clothes.  I feel good.  Yet I don't tell people that I had Weight Loss surgery because somebody will have something to say, some criticism no doubt, about how I took the easy way out.  Couldn't I have just ate less and exercised more?  No, I couldn't.  That's why I did this.  I still have more to lose, more to learn and more to do - exercise, eating adjustments, etc.  How is this "easy"?  Oh, and let's not forget 2 months of wearing the drain . . .

I saw somebody post the following and I copied and pasted it because I liked what he had to say:

I had people telling me it was the easy way out also. My comeback to them was this: "Absolutely! It was so incredibly easy! The only things I had to do was change everything I ever learned about food, portions, nutrition, cooking, shopping,mental status, social changes, exercise, fitness, body image, self-worth and respect, and taking responsibility for myself. I did that SO easily by just dealing with appointments, learning about surgery, combating insurance companies, meeting multiple times with psych and nutritionists, giong under the knife, waking up to realize that I made a permanent change in my body, seeing doctors for multiple med changes, carefully calculating nutritional values of everything I eat, seeing the chages in my body as my weight changes and mentally dealing with the empty skin, and dealing with lame brains who tell me I did this the easy way!    That usually shut them up!

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