Oprah on Friday 4/02/04 WLS!!
Eve N.
on 3/31/04 5:54 am
on 3/31/04 5:54 am
This Friday, April 2nd, Oprah will be doing a show in Weight Loss Surgery!
It seems to feature Randy Jackson, and also goes into the operating and recovery rooms to check out the inside scoop on WLS.
I can't wait! I hope they'll do a positive job of it since Oprah hasn't really been on board with WLS in the past.
-Eve
This will be interesting. She and Dr. Phil are very anti. Speaking of Phil baby, where are those other people on the challenge teams? I don't think we've heard about anything but the successes in some time. I could be wrong, as I haven't been watching regularly due to, well, WLS surgery. Dr. Phil has come out with a line of food products, something that always makes me distrust a "higher ground" helping with obesity pitch. I want to see where the folks in the challenge who were really in trouble are right now. I would be willing to bet some are failing miserably. As good as some of his info is, it's that "you just gotta go all out" garbage with some smattering of "have will power" even though he SAYS will power isn't the relevant concept. And Oprah has a lot of control issues, that's for sure.
Gano
I'm with you Gano. Dr. Phil really ****** me off in the worst way. 
He spews bs without having ever had the experience of being morbidly obese, and yet WITHOUT EVER HAVING LOST WEIGHT HIMSELF decides he is a guru for healthy living. Bull***t. Here is a pudgy middle aged man telling everyone how to basically "just do it." 
I'm sure many of us can attest to the fact that dieting is painful. Even Atkins, which I loved (and have decided to do a modified version of now) leaves you hungry if you want to continue ongoing weightloss. It's great at curbing the appetite, but when you need to eat half a gallon of food in order to feel "done" it's very hard to eat even low-carb without feeling deprived at some point.
The thing this moron doesn't get is that once your stomach is stretched out from years of overeating, it's like skin. It will only shrink back so far. And when pushed, it will give a lot easier than if it had never been stretched. But this is beyond comprehension for some. I'd like to see Dr. Phil eat 1/4 of what would make his stomach full for the rest of his life and see if he could do it. Obviously not since he is packing around 30-40 extra pounds himself. 
Dina
He spews bs without having ever had the experience of being morbidly obese, and yet WITHOUT EVER HAVING LOST WEIGHT HIMSELF decides he is a guru for healthy living. Bull***t. Here is a pudgy middle aged man telling everyone how to basically "just do it."
I'm sure many of us can attest to the fact that dieting is painful. Even Atkins, which I loved (and have decided to do a modified version of now) leaves you hungry if you want to continue ongoing weightloss. It's great at curbing the appetite, but when you need to eat half a gallon of food in order to feel "done" it's very hard to eat even low-carb without feeling deprived at some point.
The thing this moron doesn't get is that once your stomach is stretched out from years of overeating, it's like skin. It will only shrink back so far. And when pushed, it will give a lot easier than if it had never been stretched. But this is beyond comprehension for some. I'd like to see Dr. Phil eat 1/4 of what would make his stomach full for the rest of his life and see if he could do it. Obviously not since he is packing around 30-40 extra pounds himself.
Dina 
Well said!
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