Stop the insanity!!!

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Ozarkturtle

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Hopefully this doesnt rub some people the wrong way but, I cant believe the number of people talking about weight loss surgery. Are you kidding me!! Close the fridge, put the spoon down show some will power and self discipline. Accept responsibility for being FAT and lose the weight the healthy way. Surgery is not going to change your lifestyle, it surely wont improve your cardiovascular system. I started out at 430 pounds have had 3 knee operations had pulmonary hypertension. But I got serious about it, I quit making excuses. I eat 1200 calories a day, I workout 6 days a week take multivitamins and drink lots of water. I have lost 215 pounds in 11 months I now weigh 215 pounds. No surgery can give me the pride, self confidence and the joy of knowing I earned this, I did it. I also got healthy along the way and learned how to eat healthier and how to make the right choices no surgery will do that. Im sorry if I am ranting here but it is upsetting that people dont realize surgery is not the answer hard work and discipline is. There are no magic pills or quick fixes people. Like I said earlier you have to do a lifestyle change, and if you lose the weight the old fashioned way by excercise and diet you will have made those changes along the way. If you opt for surgery you will not get any benefit, you will not have learned how to live healthy.
 
I just wanted to update this post, I now weigh 186 pounds and am eating around 1800 calories a day. I still workout 6 days a week and have been on this journey for 26 months. Have had some ups and downs but I have done it the old fashioned way. Have learned how to live a healthy lifestyle. Its not easy but the results are worth all the blood, sweat and tears:)
 
I think its best not to judge other people by how you feel like. What might work for you may not work so well for others , both due to lifestyle, personality type, time, or otherwise.
Congratulations on loosing the weight. I also did it the old fashioned way also, but also know a few people who just don't appear to be able to stick with it.
 
Wishes, I just wanted to say thank you. I went to your website. The info you have there made me confident that losing weight by cutting calories can work. Thank you so much!

"Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est."
 
oskar a big part of me agrees with you. But when you know something is doable, its hard to see how it seems so undoable to other people.

We've got a friend here who is going to have some of those crazy things and she's not even obese. I don't mind if people take what might be considered an "easy way" but i worry that these methods have greater risks.

Today i met a man who told me he lost 38kg last year by having half his stomach cut away. The result is his diabetes is cured and so is his high blood pressure i think he said. He loooks great. He's about 65. But he also told me that gastric banding and whathaveyou have a 53% of people who have this operation have complications.

That is a high complication rate. And i think it sounds really scary but i still don't feel i can persuade my friend out of the operation. Her doctor should do it if anyone. But doctors seem to more worried about losing their patients than doing the right thing by them or maybe she doesn't feel the risk is so bad. I don't know.

Its the risks that concern me. Though i do find this weight loss journey i am on this time easier than ever before and can see now that if you find the right approach for your situation it is easy and can be successful in the long term. Its a bit early for me to say i've been at it for a long tiem. Only not quite three months but it was good to see someone doing something very similar and who has now been in maintenance for 18 months and still going strong.
 
I am not judging, I just think surgery is a very risky choice and the complication rate is outrageous. Over 50 % of people who have had the banding surgery have had to have them removed,that is unbelievable.
 
Over 50 % of people who have had the banding surgery have had to have them removed,that is unbelievable.


I hope you are not quoting me there because that's not what i said. Did you get that from further research?
 
:waving: Hello everybody!
I'm so new to here that I haven't even read any posts yet, but I will and I'm sure I am going to meet some very inspirational people.

I won't be the most overweight person here, but I'll probably be up there among the people who have dieted for the longest time!
I'm 62 and have been trying to lose 15 kg since I was a teenager!
and I've lost every one of them zillions of times over.
I've been to goal weight 4 times and of course - on it goes again (often with interest)

Anyhow this time I'm not on a "weight loss" diet, I'm on a "lifestyle" diet!
I have just finished treatment for breast cancer and am feeling very unhealthy, so the aim is to get healthy and if I do lose weight, it will be by the right way and not some stupid fad diet I can only stick to for as long as my will power will let me!

Cheers!
 
Hello,
I do not like the prospect of weight loss surgery for myself but I would not go as far as to call it "insanity" for others.
Perhaps there are people who will die if they do not undergo such a procedure so let's not be so quick to judge others!
 
I agree, there are some that have underlying medical conditions requiring surgery. But there are a lot of people looking for the easy way out and there is no easy way out.

@ fortyfour, I watched a news special a couple weeks ago that was talking about weight loss surgeries and that was from industry research.
 
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