Excuses why you can't have weight loss surgery

 

Hi Everyone,

How many excuses can you come up with why you will not or have not had Weight Loss Surgery? Aka (WLS).

1. I am a failure at everything I have tried why will WLS work for me? I have been on every kind of diet there is out there.
2. I don’t have the money for WLS
3. I hate myself I can’t do this because I know I will fail at this too.
4. I don’t want to fill out all the papers only to find out that my insurance will not pay for it and I have to go through the appeal process
5. I am scared to death to do this.
6. Are you crazy, you want me to go to Mexico to a doctor I have never met and have surgery.
7. Is it safe to go to Mexico? And is it clean in their hospital? Do they speak English?
8. How do you know what doctor is the best for WLS in Mexico if you are going there?
9. My doctor doesn’t think I need WLS; I should be able to lose the weight with diet and exercise.
10. My family does not support me in the fact that I am thinking about having WLS.
11. I will just wait until they come out with the “little magic pill” and all this fat will fall right off me.
12. Maybe I can get on the “Biggest Loser” and lose all my weight!  LOL!
13. I can’t take time off work to have the surgery and time for recovery.
14. I like to eat a lot of food and I wouldn’t be able to do that if I what WLS.
15. I don’t like the foods that you should be eating after having WLS.
16. I will have too much extra skin and then need more surgery.
17. I HATE to exercise and they say I should exercise.
18. I am an emotional eater, what will happen if I have WLS?
19. WLS is the easy way out and it won’t work for me.
20. It will cost too much for all the special foods I will need to buy
21. My family will not eat what I have to eat and I don’t want to cook two different meals.
22. It is easy to hide behind being fat and I don’t want to face my emotional problems.
23. I am in denial and I don’t need to lose weight so why should I have WLS?
24. I have very low self-esteem and can’t do this.
25. Who cares if I am fat, I am happy!
26. I have a very slow metabolism and this will not work for me.
27. I am too old and to have WLS.
28. I suffer from depression.
29. I am too obese and they won’t do WLS on me.
30. I am scared I will die during WLS.

 

I could have come up with more excuses, but I thought this covered most of them.  Feel free to add any I left out.

I can give a reason why you should have WLS for every one of these excuses that are posted above.  I am the person who had a lot of these same excuses for many years.  4 years ago I had WLS and was very successful. I lost 105 pounds and have kept it off.  My insurance would NOT pay for it and I was lucky enough to have some money to be able to pay for it myself.  I made the choice after about 6 months of asking questions to go to Dr. Aceves in Mexico who I highly recommend.  I feel he was the very best doctor for me.  He is highly skilled and has done many “sleeve” WLS with great success. He does the surgery in a top rated fully equipped hospital and not a clinic. You do your recovery in the hospital. I checked him out in every way I could. 

STOP giving days away of your life.  Become healthy and love and care for yourself enough to want this for you and NO ONE ELSE.  Losing weight is ALL about you and NO one else.   

 This is just a thought.  You may have heard the saying “What I do today is important because I’m trading a day of my life for it.”  But have you ever really thought about what is means? It’s probably impossible to plan every 1,440 minutes of the day.  But, give it a little thought.  What can you do part of that time to make your life happy, healthy and how can you benefit from your choices?  Life is so very short and so make the most of the day that you are trading of your life for. We all stumble and fall along the way, don’t beat yourself up over it. Move on and have a better day the next day.

If you have any questions please ask away.  I am here to help and support you and answer any questions that you might have.

Hugs,

Suzanne

 

I am not "that" fat.

 

Great list and wonderful story, always love your posts

an excuse is an attempt to justify or lessen blame for a fault. i don't consider being fat a "fault" nor do i consider WLS an obligation for fat people. making the decision to have WLS is a personal one.

Hi,

I would agree with you on WLS it is a very person choice, and only YOU can and should make that choice. I was just stating what my experience was and offering to answer any questions that someone might have if they were considering WLS. I know I had so many great people on a few sites help we with my questions, and got all the answers I needed to make the choice I made.

I am the only person who is to blame because I became fat. I ate too much, I ate a lot of junk food, I sat around and didn't exercise. NO one made me become fat but myself, so I was the only one who could accept the blame for where I was and I was the ONLY person who could change that. I was obligated to change my lifestyle and do something about it before I died from being fat and my health was getting worse. So this was MY choice to have WLS.

I respect what you said and your choice and if what you are doing is working for you, I wish you great success with it. NOT everyone is successful at losing on their own and the big thing is "keeping it off forever" once you lose it. I could lose it but I wasn't committed enough I guess to not go back to my old eating habits. I need to make a permanent lifestyle change for the rest of my life. Now I have that.

Take care and I hope what you are doing works for you for the rest of your life.
Suzanne

Very passive aggressive reply there ...   I agree with Chris - but I doubt you'll ever see it!   Oh, and she's very successful - as am I - you are an expert in YOUR journey - it doesn't make you an expert in anyone elses!

You do Not know me well enough to say my reply is very passive aggressive. If what you are doing and what Chris is doing is working that is wonderful. What I am doing and saying helps many people and that is all that matters to me. I never ever said I was an expert. Those are YOUR words. I have only said I was here to answer any questions that the might have. What bothers you about what I said in my posting??????