Daily Post--3/11/08
OMG, I've had people make this inference (nobody has had the stupidity to out-right say it to my face) and I find this SO offensive. I work harder now than I ever did as a pre-op. I think this is much more work, but I do it willingly, because for the first time in my life I HAVE A CHANCE TO SUCCEED. Seriously, people who think this is the easy way who have this surgery are the ones who won't succeed. And people who haven't had this surgery really don't have a right to express their opinion to me, IMNHSO, because they haven't had my experience.
This is absolutely not the easy way out...not being able to eat like a normal person-no bread, food going down ok one day and not going down the next, having to take all the vits, making sure you get in all your protein and water and calcium, hair falling out, skin sagging, SURGERY-pain, etc...
This is just what they say it is...a tool...just like WW is a tool to help you lose weight and keep it off, if you follow the plan you will lose weight and keep it off.
This is something that really makes me mad! Personally if I could have lost weight any other way I would have done it but I'd have died trying so no it's not easy and unless you do it and then get it undone there's never an easy out either. For the rest of my life I will eat differently, I will miss the foods I enjoyed for so long, I will sit by while others enjoy things that I will never be able to have again, I will struggle with vitamin dificencies, I will someday face the possibility of gaining again if I am not always careful. People do not see the whole picture when they make that comment, they just see the weight loss and figure that someone doesn't want to even try.
Now I do believe there are alot of people getting this surgery for the wrong reasons, some do think it is going to be an easy way out but then have a rude awakening when they've had the surgery. Some people choose to have this surgery because they want to have a beautiful body or be pretty but yet they don't realize until its too late that it takes alot more work and possibly surgery to have that perfect body.
Thats my 2 cents worth! Take care! Kellie
Definitely NOT the easy way out...just ask any body who has had this surgery and just cooked a delicious and healthy dinner - just like I did last night...chicken in the crockpot with lots of veggies...only to drool over it all day long and eat two pieces of the chicken and be throwin' their guts up for 10 minutes....nothing easy about that...then coming out of the bathroom to see the worried look on your husband and childrens face and have to tell them that your ok and not to worry..this happens from time to time...mommy's ok...God no..this is not the easy way out...but it was the necessary way for me to get my life in order.
Boy, I find this hard to answer. I have to agree with the one other person who said this is pretty easy.
Not that I really think it is easy, but it's so successful that you sacrifice all the "food pleasure" you once had in order for you to lose the weight. If we could have the surgery and still eat like we did before, I guess that would be the easiest. But we all know that isn't going to happen. Anyway, all the wrong foods would make us gain our weight back anyway.
I understand the problem with not being able to eat like we used to. But I think we adapt to that and get by just fine. I used to love food and now I just eat because I have to but to me it is worth it. I am so much healthier and slimmer. That makes the "dark" side of surgery bearable.
I knew all of this going in to it so I made the choice. I know I feel like I am sacrificing a lot but it is the only way for me to be successful. Anyone who loses weight in any diet has to sacrifice a lot. Yes, I know I changed my whole insides and that is sad that I had to go to such drastic measures but that was necessary for me. I chose that way in order to be successful.
I miss eating anything quite often but I made that choice. Given the choice, I would still have the surgery over eating because it keeps me healthy. When I feel nausea, I still don't regret having the surgery because I know I will be fine.
I can do so much more than I could before and I feel better physically as well as mentally. I didn't have any problems with the surgery itself and I have adjusted to the new and healthier way of eating, and I keep losing weight....so I have to feel this was fairly easy.
I don't consider it "an easy way out", though. I feel the weight comes off easily. I could never have done this and been successful any other way as most of us have found out. It's not an "easy way out"...just "the weight comes off easily".
Anyone who diets sacrifices something. But having WLS is a great tool and one I needed. It works!
If I could have lost the extra weight AND been successful without WLS, I would have chosen that because it really is drastic to change one's insides and risk death with surgery. But that was not possible for me. So I understand where people come from saying it is not easy. No diet in the world is easy.
But WLS does make the weight come off easily. I have gained a lot.....not weight...but a longer life, a healthier life, happiness, self-esteem. confidence, better complexion, courage, energy, and who knows what else. That makes the occasional nausea or missing certain foods worth it.
This is so hard for me to say what I am thinking. It sounds confusing. Sorry....
But I am happy with my choice of having WLS and feel the weight comes off easily compared to all the years of frustration with dieting and ending up not being successful.
Jolene
Nope, not easy. When I used to diet before the surgery, I would take a day off because it was my birthday, my daughter's birthday, Christmas, Easter, Friday, etc. Now, there's no opportunity to take a break from the diet. We have to watch what we eat 24/7. We have to exercise most days of the week without fail. We have to record everything we eat and take the vitamins. In the past, I would get discouraged if my weight loss stalled and go off of my diet only to regain what I had worked so hard to lose. The difference now is that when we do all of these things, we actually lose the weight. I think that instead of saying this is easy, I would say it's rewarding.
There is no easy way to lose weight.Now having said that I must admit this has been the easiest thing I have done to lose weight.I have been very lucky,I've had no issues what so ever.Yea I have to exercise and watch what I eat,but this surgery has given me the means to do it.I've spent 30 yrs trying to lose this weight.With wls I've lost almost all of it in 1yr.So if someone wants to think I took the easy way out,who cares.What they think doesn't bother me in the least.I know what I've done to get here and I know what I need to do to stay this way.My friends and family know how hard I work to make my wls a success.
Patti
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