
dogbeau
First Consultation Thoughts
Jul 24, 2009
Yesterday I had my first consultation. It was a group seminar thing, so no one-on-one yet, but I gotta some clarifications on things.What was most interesting was my emotions and reactions. When I first walked into the room, a big room about half-filled with 40 or so people. I became very emotional, with tears in my eyes. An overwhelming sens of sadness, that I had come to this point. That I was a failure. that I was not like these "other" people - FAT people. And this sort of rolled into a anxiety attack, with me sweating and really wanting to run.
But I stayed.
The whole group dynamic was probably not the best intro for me. There were so many distractions by people - cell phones, babies whining, people shuffling and huffing and puffing. Ugh.
Most of the info I had already read about repeatedly. But I did get a little insight in that I really heard them pushing a bit on gastric bypass over banding. The RNY has significantly better results, and happens in a more automoatic way, because of the malabsorption qualities, over the band, which deals only with restriction.
I still have this idea that the rearranging of your instines is just not "natural" and could have some serious long term effects.
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08/24/2010
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Jul 20, 2009
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