Got a question!!!

I would like to know facts or opinion on this question. Since Medicare and other insurance have now said our morbid obesity is a disease, can someone answer this? Do we know the cause? If the surgery is a "tool" then there was nothing cured. Sooo... How do we get it? Is the obesity something that becomes a disease as we have so much weight we can't lose it or is the disease a mental thing? Since we have to change our lifestyle (which was bad) was this like alcolholic disease and was more like an addiction? Since it seems we usually have another relative in our family in the same situation, is it hereditary? I guess I am just wondering about how come I am this way. I am not trying to beat myself up about it, just want to know as much as I can so when I am on the losing side, I can remember how to change and why. SORRY THIS HAS MORE THAN ONE QUESTION. THANKS FOR HELPING. CAROL

Nobody really knows the answer to that. So many companies believe it is a lifestyle choice. When indeed it may not be so. But isn't drugs and Alcohol a self inflicted type of thing???? But yet they have more right's then an obese person. The skinny world can careless about us fat people....we are just taking up space and causing world hunger.....

you know i used to think it was my "metabolism" or that i must have "the fat gene". But while researching the surgery I came to agree with Dr. Phil who believes that the human body is not designed to weigh 300pounds. That we obese people really have to have a lifestyle to support that weight. Its a numbers game, if we are taking in more that we burn we will gain weight. That is why YOU GOTTA MOVE TO LOOSE. Since my surgery 5 mos ago I have become a runner. Its a miracle. I have simply replaced one behavior with another. Instead of getting up in the morning and thinking "oh good, what can I eat today." Now I wake up and think, "oh good time to run, and oh crap I gotta eat something today." The weight loss surgery does not "cure" the disease. Its a vehicle that gives us time to analyze what got us so obese in the first place. If we dont listen to the doctors and get off the couch and MOVE we will have not given ourselves the chance to be all that we can be. I was fat because I had a lifestyle to support being fat. My wall of fat was my protection, my friend, my comfort zone. I made the decision to be fat every morning when I made bad choices with food and inactivity. Sure I can blame my childhood, my bumps in the road. Who can't? I needed to look in the mirror and take responsibility for allowing myself to become FAT. The surgery saved my life. I am so grateful, I now smile all the time.

Thanks Cyndi! I am so anxious to get out and DO THINGS. I don't know when I lost control but must have been very young. I don't feel well enough to do anything but when I remember all the things I wanted to do I really get excited. I wonder just what I WILL do. I use to love to walk now I barely get from the house to the car with out resting. I guess it really doesn't matter how I got this way. I am just excited to be like all you losers. I just hope my day comes before it kills me. Congrats on the running. I never did that and always thought "why are they running?" but I think it would be nice to be able to run. Maybe when I get smaller things that now are impossible, I will get to try. Before I go, I want to try it ALL Carol

Carol, remember its baby steps. first get yourself healthy and then the rest will come. let me know if there is anything i can say or do to keep you motivated.