WTH Is Up With All The WLS Bashing??!!??

[momtobella]

It seems like over the past few days I have heard nothing but WLS bashing. I have read story after inspirational story on the internet about people who lost alot of weight and then I go to comments section of the article and people are all like, "Great job for having the strength to do it on your own instead of having that nasty surgery," or "Well done for doing it the "right" way instead of the easy way with surgery," or even "Glad you lost the weight, but you should have never gotten so fat to begin with." I mean, what the hell!!!!! It's like the whole world gets on your ass about it being so big, but then they also want to make you feel ashamed of how you're losing it or they make stupid comments about how you should never have let yourself get so fat. It's like because I carry extra weight (for whatever the reason) I will NEVER be forgiven by society no matter what size I am. I guess the final straw was my sister, who went on a diet the same week I told her I was having the sleeve done, when she told me this morning that she has lost 45 pounds and she didn't have to destroy her body with surgery to do it. Really? I mean, I have been very supportive of her about her diet and every time she posts a new picture on Facebook, I give her encouraging words and tell her how proud I am of her and then she is going to turn around and slap me in the face like that? As much as I wanted to rip her a new one, I kept my temper in check and calmly explained that I did not destroy my body with surgery and that having the surgery does not make me any less accountable than her. My sleeve may only allow me to eat so much, but I still have to make the decision about what I eat. Eating 1,000 calories a day of lean protein, veggies, yogurt and fruit is NOT the same as eating 1,000 calories a day of junk food. I have to decide to eat whole and nutritionally sound food. I have to decide to take my vitamins and supplements to stay healthy. I have to decide not to have a piece of cake or eat a half dozen cookies. I also have to decide to get off my butt and walk 3 miles a day and weight train 3 times a week. My sleeve certainly doesn't make these decisons for me. I make them. My sleeve helps me control my appetite. It allows me to push the plate away when I feel full. But the rest is up to me. Period. Is WLS helpful...ABSOLUTELY! Is WLS the easy way out...ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! Sorry for the long post....just needed to vent to people who know where I am coming from.

[Eleanor]

We hear you and we feel you. :-)

[jknox65]

I imagine you are similar to me, that is if you could of lost it without the surgery you would have! I know people that sit there and say to me 'I lost 23 pounds last year'. Really? If I had only 23 pounds to lose I could do that. But considering I lost 68 pounds in about 3.5 months tell me how you would do that?
There is a lot of money in the weight loss industry too. I think a lot of the bashing is to save the money train from all of us yoyo dieters.

Truth is I ignore it. Ignorance is bliss when it is left alone...

[VixenPin-up]

I wish there was an easy way to weight loss. I lost 50 lbs on my own and then gained it all back. Now with the weight loss surgery I am figuring out that eating slow and small portions are ok. People who post horrible comments like that are those that have never had a weight problem or don't see this as help.

[firewa11]

I have been on the roller coaster all my life. On three separate occasions I lost between 50-95 pounds, only to gain most or all of it back within a year or two. There is no easy way, and while WLS helps take away the problem of hunger, it certainly isn't easy. In fact, I have done HCG, SlimFast, Weight Watchers, etc.... And those seemed easier... But not effective for me. I built a new fence a few weeks ago and nearly killed myself from dehydration. Who thought being able to drink half a gallon of fluid would be such a challenge? Or eating enough to survive when you haven't had an appetite for months. And I have been exercising more now than I ever have before. And don't even get me started on the pain and discomfort after surgery. No, WLS is not easy, and idiots that are ignorant to this, well I give zero flips to them. As they say, hater's gonna hate. WLS is a long term solution to fix a problem we have NOW. Maybe in 50 years they will invent a morning after pill for overeating, but until they do this was the only solution for me, to ensure I will be around to watch my son grow up.

[dmgriffith92]

I'm so sick of hearing it to and I still I have two days to wait before it's my day. My family and friends are all like if you can handle the 10 liquid diet you can handle lossing weight on your own see its not that hard. Umm liquid diet not that hard maybe they need to try it. My husband didn't last a day. Do you know how bad I want to go out buy a big rib eye steak and have a loaded baked potatoe and a salad with cheese sticks and sauce. If it were not for me getting this sleeve and wanting to have this tool to help me get over that huge eating problems, and actually feeling full instead of feeling like I'm starving to death on a diet it would have worked for me. But I can't go around feeling hungry all the time. With this it will allow me to eat and feel full that much faster. Yes I will have to continue to log everything that hits my mouth but there is nothing wrong with having help and thats what WLS is, is help.

[robsgal]

I think its all the publicity from the Biggest Loser finally. My guess anyway

[Craya559]

That burns my booty we make a choice to get healthy it shouldn't matter if we have surgery or how we do it. Just goes to show you how judgmental people are and no matter what we do people will talk trash. Sad but true

[niamh]

At the risk of repeating myself ......

fuck 'em!

[CassieCat]

Being fat is the last socially UNACCEPTABLE thing there is. You can't make racist jokes. Religious jokes, etc. But you can make fat jokes and no one cares. You don't get banned from playing a comedy club or it isn't the front page newspaper if a Hollywood Star makes a "fat" tirad. People who chose surgery, do so as a last resort. Its not the first thing on your "to do" list.

[while.im.still.young]

When I first told my mother and my sister that I wanted to get the sleeve they both had some pretty harsh things to say. My mother (who is now much more supportive after having gone to an appointment with my surgeon with me) told me "maybe you should elect to have your mouth sewn shut and you would get the same results". Which may be true, but completely not practical. Haha. My sister is still not very supportive of my decision and takes every opportunity to remind me of how "drastic" it is. Oh well, I'm getting healthy for ME not for them anyway!

[imtad]

What a skinny person doesn't get and never will is the fact that a FAT person has a super ability to lose weight. I do not know of one fat person who has not lost a substantial amount of weight. In fact most of us do it annually or at least bi-annually. couple years ago I did the HCG program. Did awesome. Lost a small boats worth of weight. The SECOND I started to eat carbs again I was doomed. 45# back on my ass plus another 10# just for shits and giggles. Fat people can lose weight. Just ask one. What a fat person CAN'T do well is to keep it off. I guess I will see how well this "TOOL" works in the long run in about 1 or 2 years. I don't know if it will have "Cured" my fatso-ness but by GOD it was my choice to make. Not the neighbor or my sisters or my parents. It was MY choice. I live with the consequences! Not my bartender or therapist. People are gunna think what they are gunna think and there ain't shit we can do about it. The only thing we hold in our power is to prove the MF'ers wrong. Stay on program, eat the right kind of food in the right amount, lose enough weight so you can exercise without pain killers and tell them in three years when they have gained their weight back plus that shits and giggles 10#'s "HOW DO LIKE ME NOW"?

[cherrob]

Yes, I agree with you all. It is definitely not on our "to do" list. If I could have lost the weight myself, I would not have put myself through the surgery and all the negativity that some people share about it. Every diet I have tried, I would lose a few pounds and then gain that back plus about 10 or 20 more. As far as the Biggest Loser goes, I love the show, but realisticly these people exercise about 6-8 hours a day and who can do that in real life? I mean most of us have jobs, children, etc and cannot spend 6-8 hours in the gym. So, go away haters..LOL!

[Grace]

Jillian whats her name makes me want to slap her.....abusive biotch.

And, look back on your post in about 18 months and see if your sister KEPT that weight off....because you will.

AND, you don't see people ragging on folks who need bypass heart surgery...well, now you should just exercise and you never should have gotten all that cholesterol in your veins in the first place..... both are genetic.... but you can't see veins and you can see swollen fat cells. Just saying.

[Toopy]

Funny thing to me,is...do those pencil-necks think this surgery is easy???? Do you REALLY think the being cut open, healing, learning how to re-eat was easy?? Hell no!! Think to yourself what youve accomplished. I know not many people that could have endured the surgery & all the post-op issues. You are VERY strong for having made that decision-it was not easy.

And lets not forget that being on the weight loss rollar coaster is unhealthy. Going up and down,all over the place--which is something you wont end up doing. The people that can spout off about 'doing it on their own'? Good luck to them, theyll be back up there in no time!