Some people can do it the old fashioned way!

This man lost 600 lbs without surgery.  Simply amazing!!  There are others here on this very board who have lost vast amounts of weight without surgery to.  http://www.ketv.com/health/15193548/detail.html If only I were that disciplined. I'll need surgery to get me there and I'm perfectly fine with that!  It's still amazing to see folks do this without surgery though!

That's impressive.

Hi Chris...I just found this board, so I'm not familiar with your story.  But I see that you are considering having WLS.  You said that you wish that you were disciplined enough to lose the weight without having the surgery.  I have made a few friends over on the Plastic Surgery Board who are all WLS patients.  I am constantly amazed at how much discipline that they have to exercise every day of their lives.  The only advantage that I can see that they had over me was 'the honeymoon period' of the surgery.  Which doesn't promise that you will get to goal.  A lot of them have had their weight loss STOP at two hundred pounds.  Once past the initial weight loss, they have just as hard of a time losing weight as I do.  Only they have that dumping issue, that puts them in bed if they're not working their discipline.    Ewwwwe I'm not trying to influence you one way or the other, that's your journey to take.  But if there is one thing I've learned from those ladies, WLS does not teach you discipline. Mary 

you JUST found this board after me telling you about it for the past year or so??? You and I are going to have issues Mayreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Hmmpphhhhhh 

Woman, dontchu go shaking that finger at me!  Just cuz you've talked about it doesn't mean I ever came over here.  I've got other places to run my big mouth. I just got through typing atcha on a different post...on this board!  So you're sneaking off to NYC on us are ya?   So how are the girls?  And I don't mean your daughters, cuz ya got none.      Mary

The girls.  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  you got my last pics.  This left one does not want to drop at all.  It feels all up under my left armpit, seems even higher then when they first put them in.  The right is nice and dropped, everything looks great.  This left one is going to be the death of me. What DOES CC feel like?  It's hard and soft at the same time, so confusing. yes I'm sneaking off to NYC at the end of March.  Wanna come?? Love you to bits even though I can't keep up with things these days!! I'm actually still in albany because we had a stupid snow/ice thingie going on and i couldn't make it home so they put us up for another night.

Well now in the pics, I didn't see THAT much of a difference between the two.  But you know how we are, we obsess over things that other people think looks just fine. And in the pics, you were like two minutes of healing, away from being drop dead sexy! From what I hear, CC hurts, so I think you would know if you have it.  Besides, yours are under the muscle and silicone, so CC is rare.  Sounds like your pocket may have healed too fast.   Still in Albany?  That sucks!  How's John supposed to keep warm?  Girl, don't tell Nae I said this, but if I ever get to New York, it's gonna be to see Sterrilicious!  

welcome mary! all very good points.

Andrea!!!  How you doin', Girl?  Thanks for the welcome.  And I thought I wouldn't know anyone here.  This is a nice place ya'll got here. Yanno, that WLS isn't exactly my idea of the easy way out.  Those people are my heroes for going through what they go through.  I know I couldn't do it.  But that's just me.  If I want to occasionally eat a fried shrimp now, I don't want to have to foam up and lay in the bed to do it, yanno?  Just my humble opinion...mostly cuz I'm a weanie! Mary

Surely you know that you can have a fried shrimp after WLS...?  Even some RNYers can do that. Hell my sister in law eats fried chicken and and pork rinds and she's only 2 years post op RNY. Granted she can't put em down like I can!..but then that's the whole point of the surgery isn't it?