WLS Is The Easy Way Out.

 At least someone's happy today.

Well!  She certainly told us, didn't she???

All I can say is, after trying for years and years, and getting bigger and bigger, I have finally found the answer.  I could not be happier, and I wish I had done this 25 years ago.

My feelings exactly...

This idiot has bought into the cultural zeitgeist that being overweight is a moral flaw, or character flaw, or both, and that "fat" people should be punished for their indiscretions through deprivation, pain, and hunger.  She gives herself away in her last sentence:  self-indulgent, overweight, spineless jellyfish.  Nice.

Unfortunately many in our own community have bought into this same horrible mindset, and beat themselves up over it every day.  THAT's the real danger of discrimination - we begin to believe it ourselves - with the exception of those of us on this forum, and elsewhere, *****ject this cultural stereotype with a sound **** OFF!

 I feel sorry for her.   Must be horrible being stuck in a  fat body and  see no way out except a fruit juice fast  or a 500  calorie a day Auschwitz like starvation plan .   

She probably goes home  and drinks hereself into a pity-party  stupor every night I'm guessing ....  

Well, weight loss surgery IS the easy way out. 

As is the car, air conditioning, the washer & dryer, elevators, airplanes, internet shopping, and Starbucks.

And I'm not giving any of those things up, either.

Honestly. I USED to think like that. I saw WLS as the easy way out and people who got WLS were Lazy. I was on a high horse losing 55 pounds on WW's thinking I was the **** Then the weight started creeping back AND I developed Bingeing Disorder and it seemed impossible to lose weight.

I had a talk with my cousin who had RNY and she told me "Whats so wrong about asking for help?" And it hit me. I needed help. I needed a tool to get me out of the yoyo diet world. I needed something permanent and for life.

I admit I WAS an Asshole and I WAS jealous of anyone losing weight while I struggled.

I thank my lucky star that I finally researched and EDUCATED myself and now am losing this weight and have a healthier relationship with food.

Im not going to let some uneducated, narrow minded twit get me down.

As a pre op, thinking about surgery, I can understand her feelings to a degree. It sickens me to see a young relative "healthy person" that only have about 80-100 pounds to lose get an invasive weight loss surgery, such as gastric bypass, Sleeve or DS, when they are fully capable of exercising and eating right. Surgeons don't give a flip, they will operate on anyone that will pay.

I was on another forum and a lady got the lap band with a bmi of 25, but of course she was self pay, no insurance company would pay for that nonsense, surgeons are in it for the money, they don't care if these people end up with life long complications, they will just push them to their local PCP's to have them deal with their issues.

Now before you get upset, I meant "young and healthy", I believe surgical intervention is needed in certain cir****tances and gastric bypass should be reserved for the truly obese, those with bmi's over 45 with health issues. Not for vanity reasons and for people who just want to look cute in their clothes and/or improve their dating life.

I agree weight loss surgery is not the easy way out, because in the end all weight loss surgeries require lifestyle change, exercise and eating right otherwise weight regain is inevitable.