VSG surgery, taking the easy way out? I think it is, and darn grateful for it!
It was easy for me also, once I healed from the actual surgery. Although removing most of a perfectly healthy organ is extreme, in my opinion, and is undertaken only because, in the end, it takes extreme measures to correct an otherwise uncorrectable life-and-death condition.
I think what we bristle at is that the "easy way out" comment implies moral judgment on the obese - "you got yourself in this mess through lazy, gluttonous eating habits, and your punishment should be deprivation until you can fit in with the rest of us (i.e., learned your lesson)." A holdover from the Puritan tradition I suspect.
Height 5' 7" High Wt 268 / Consult Wt 246 / Surgery Wt 241 / Goal Wt 150 / Happy place 135-137 / Current Wt 143
Tracker starts at consult weight
In maintenance since December 2011.
I have been thinking about this topic and have faced this comment more times than I can count. I first wrote this in May 2008 and still feel this way
(IMHO)- work in progress
I've been thinking about this one for awhile
- taking the easy way to lose weight
When friends/family/coworkers/strangers or even some of us talk about being perceived as or even accused of-
- taking the easy way to lose weight
There is a very nasty subtext to this statement- how dare we- take the easy way to lose weight? The message is that obese people are weak or sinful or dirty and must be punished for gaining this weight, for doing this to themselves. - Taking the easy way to lose weight- means obese people are not suffering enough in penance for what they have done to themselves.
WLS seems effortless to the uneducated- people on the fringes of your life see the weight falling off but don't see the daily details of your life that make WLS successful.
Why don't people celebrate that - an easy way to lose weight
has become available to obese people? what in our society or upbringing reflects the need to "punish" obese people as wrongdoers?
Every time I hear that phrase or see it posted I get angry. WLS is not easy.The path to make the decision is not easy. relearning to live is not easy. and I'll be damned if I let some judgmental, self-righteous buffoon tell me I am - taking the easy way to lose weight.
