hi sweetie am just applying for surgery in ontario waiting to hear back doc applied on june 21 still waiting wondering how your doing, takc care Love Dorothy waiting anxiously for youyr reply

Hi,

There are several things to consider when deciding what procedure to have.  The best thing is to do your homework.  Learn as much as you can about it all of them.  Study the pros and cons of each one.  Then make your decision based on what you have learned and think you could live with.  Remember, any surgery has risks.  You aren't going to know how well you succeed until you actually have the procedure.  I wish we could tell the future and know, but we can't.  Good luck on your journey to good health. 

I know that my relationship with food was very different pre-op and even in the post op period when I was losing weight than it is now. Pre-op, I really used food to deal with anger, frustration, loneliness, and celebrations. While I was losing weight post op, I had more of an idealist, almost adolescent relationship with food, meaning that things seemed to be good or bad, right or wrong, without much gray area. Now that I'm 3 yrs post op, I find that I seemed to have found a generally healthy balance. I don't deny myself any type of food, but I now have an awareness of the value of what I'm eating and do a much better job of maintaining a balance that helps me maintain my weight. I think that balance is what I was missing pre-op and to an extent, but necessarily so for the first year post op. 

So no matter where you are in your journey, have you looked at your relationship with food? If so, has it changed at all and how?

R u 10 years out for MGB?   You are one of the earliest MGB recepients.  Is it everything you had hoped for?    We newbies have benefited from all Dr R has learned along the way.  I had post op complications (excessive swelling) and had to be hospitalized the whole week but I must say, Dr R took good care of me.    I now appreciate  why he  has his patients stay for one week after surgery. 

Look, I understand that  food choices are important but my poor food habits are a result of 40 years worth of food restraint.  I started my first diet when I was 14.  I was a pschologically healthy girl and had a great family life.   I just wanted to be thinner.  As the years went by, I continued to be very vigilant about what went into my mouth.   If I so much as relaxed on weekends or vacations or if I scaled back on the excercise routine, BAMB!, the weight would come on.   I spent 40 years on a spiral and  this kind of spiraling cannot sustain itself.  The physical and psycological toll it took on me is what brought on whatever psychological problems I might have over food today.   I  read  the current theories of what "the experts" feel brings on obesity.  They say we make poor food choices because of some psycholgical problems we have or have had.  If that were the case, don't you think therapy alone would solve the obesity epidemic?     What about the obese babies?  My friend has a child that was born at a  normal weight but when she reached 6 months of age, she started gaining weight and is now an obese 10 year old.   Now, my friend did not feed this child any differently than any other mother out there who has a thin child.  This child was new to the world and was clean of life's future dramas.    I guess the experts would say she needs therapy now?   Ya, she will need therapy in the future after she endures relentless teasing and taunting from her peers. 

I'm not denying that overeating is the leading cause of obesity.  I'm not denying that we have some control over what we put in our mouths.  You are right about the bad foods out there i.e. processed foods etc...    The medical experts need to continue to address that issue but they also need to focus on a physical cure for obesity.  Untill then, I will always maintain that  obesity is the leading cause of psychological issues not the other way arround. 

On that note, I think I will have a hamburger for breakfast.  Just kidding!

Thanx all for listening.