Day 13 December to Remember Giveaway - Winner Announced

A December to Remember Giveaway

This will be the LAST December To Remember Giveaway, there will be one winner. The Giveaway Winner will be selected at random.

This giveaway is open to legal residents of the United States and must be a minimum of 18 years of age to participate. Participants must be registered members of ObesityHelp.

Congratulations TierraMoone, you are the winner of Day 13 December to Remember. Please check your email for notification and instructions.

Question: What do you say to people who tell you that you took the ?easy? way to lose weight? How do you try to educate them about your lifestyle changes?

Prize: ObesityHelp, Inc. Withings Body Cardio - Premium Body Composition Smart Scale (Tracks Heart Health, Vascular Age, BMI, Fat, Muscle & Bone Mass %) App Sync and Bluetooth or WiFi) Value $120.00

I have not told many people about my surgery and have really only had two people question my decision. "You couldn't lose it on your own?" is one question I received. My response was "If I could have lost the weight and kept it off, I would have been very happy. But this is my body and this was a personal decision to take back my health." Then crickets from my so called friend/coworker.

The only people Intold were those I knew would be supportive. I was not healthy, depressed, tired and just didn't have the bandwidth to deal with the stigma.

I'm not/never have been embarrassed but my decision but people Have medical procedures every day without "everyone" knowing I never felt like Inhad to explain myself

Back in the day, my family was not supportive of my weight loss surgery decision. Several tried to talk me out of it including my mom. They were worried about what I was doing to my body and that I would regret doing it because the doctor would be performing an unnecessary surgery. They gave me all kinds of tips for what to do to lose weight. I had tried them all. I asked my mother and sister to attend support group meetings with me so that they could get to know more about the process and also meet others who had the surgery or were considering it and were doing great and they finally understood why I wanted this surgery. They have been supportive ever since.

I don't have much need for other people's opinions on my medical decisions so it's not been an issue. I didn't need anyone's approval when I had my gallbaldder out and I didn't need it for this either. Some people know, some people don't.

If anyone asks about my diet, which can look strange, I say low carb, high protein, sugar free and I try to stay around 1000 calories.

For the first few years, I rarely told anyone. I do remember one person saying I took the easy out. I had to explain that I worked harder to get wls. My body was so messed up because of decades of yo-yo dieting causing my metabolism to be severely slow. Wls didn't mean that I would keep the weight off. I had to learn a healthy lifestyle in food plans and exercise, just like anyone else. When you're 4'11" and over 300 lbs, the chances of losing that much weight is almost impossible.

I don't invite unsolicited opinions so noone has ever said this to me.

I don't talk about my surgery much now, because it was so long ago, but like most of us, I didn't shut up about it for a year or five

As I have often said, the surgery is an easy way to lose weight, keeping it off for 17 years is most definitely not easy and I have had times I've regained A LOT, but I've never given up and have always managed to claw my way back to a normal BMI.

Wow! Thank you! Very excited and I need this very much!