Just like Lasik

Feb 03, 2013

While in the car yesterday,  a commercial came on the radio for Lasik eye surgery, which I, myself, had about 10 years ago.  I started wistfully thinking about how accepting people are of that surgery and how it's a shame that WLS isn't like that.


But wait a minute.

 It is the same.  In fact, WLS makes so much more sense because it can benefit your health in so many ways.  Lasik is kind of just an elective cosmetic surgery, and yet I've never heard anyone become aghast and admonishing someone for even the mere suggestion that they were thinking of having one's eyes sliced with a blade and lasered.

If an eye surgery is to help someone who was feeling encumbered by poor eyesight, WLS should be well recognized as being able to help someone who has been encumbered by obesity.  If Lasik is a corrective surgery for eyesight, WLS is a corrective surgery for weight.   

I'm getting closer to not being ashamed of my upcoming RNY.  I need to really get into the mindset of feeling absolutely ok about it and able to talk to people.  I mean, it's no secret that I'm overweight.  Beyond overweight.  Ok, it is a secret that I am clinically "Morbidly Obese,"  but obese nonetheless.    Why should I not be proud that I'm doing something about this, instead of feeling blow after blow of failing and failing each and every weight loss attempt.

My body is not normal.  I have damaged my metabolism so badly that I do not have "normal" hunger and body weight.  My leptin is out of whack. My ghrelin is out of whack.  

My BFF got a tad too heavy for her taste, went on Jenny Craig for 6 months, lost 30 pounds, and has maintained that loss for nearly 10 years.   That has never happened with me.  It baffles me how anyone can do that.

I was having dinner with a normal-weight friend at a restaurant once, both enjoying our meals.  She's about half done and puts down her fork, declaring she's had enough.  She didn't even want to take it home.  What???  How does that happen?  How can I learn this trick?  Because my dinner was so yummy, I was sad when it was gone.

So, yes, it's clear to me that I need to have RNY if I want to leave obesity behind.  I just want to avoid the confrontation and stigma of everyone else trying to judge me and make it their business.  

 

 

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