Brain Surgery for Weight Loss

Did anyone else see this? You know how we always say we wish they could operate on our brains? Well, they can!
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7023288&page=1

OMG!  yes, I saw it.  There is no way, but it was fasinating.

I have a problem here. If you read the whole article it talks about how WLS failed with her....but really didn't she fail at WLS? she obviously never gave up Pepsi, so really I think she was never fully ready to make the changes necessary to loose the weight. I mean sure it's a novel idea...brain surgery to cure a vice. But really, I don't have much faith that it will be the cure-all this woman is acually looking for anymore that WLS was. I truely believe that you have to want to change, and then take the steps to do it. I'm having my surgery in less than two weeks and If i come home and immediatly start drinking Dr. Pepper....I'm sure i'm not going to get the results I want.

Oh believe me, I am not defending the woman or promoting this in any way! I just had to laugh because so many people say they wish they could operate on our brains, especially when it comes to head hunger. My husband and I had a discussion about this last night after I caught the segment. I told him how I have not craved carbs and how it does not bother me to have them around as I just have no desire for them. HONEST! As he said, it is because I have made this decision for me and I have set my mind to it. Food is an addiction, at least in the way that most of us have used it, and we have to work our problem with it much the way alcoholics do in AA. He understands this as he is an alcoholic. He has been sober for 17 years and has never had even one set back for much the same reason. There is no miracle, just hard work and determination!

I agree Nancy, and just for the reccord I didn't mean to imply that I thought you were defending this at all, I was just discussing my opinion on the article, wouldn't try to start a debate  I think it's kind of funny too, actually.

Even her own doctor said she failed gastric bypass - see below:

Bailes said of Poe. "She's failed the best surgery that we know of, which is gastric surgery. ... So I think it is the best chance for them, for her."

Bet she out eats the electrode too.  (I know!  I know!  That wasn't nice!)

Let's face it -- the majority (if not all of us) got here because we ate out of boredom, due to stress, and any other excuse we can think of and not because of hunger. The only way to over come that is to want to and to work at it. So yes, I bet she out eats the electrode too!

Sounds pretty freaky to say, huh?  Out eat an electrode!  Ha!