MSNBC Article
Two best lines in the article:
“If you’re here for the quick fix, then this surgery is not for you,”
and
Patients need to get into the exercise habit
What I do find fascinating, however, is when I go to support group and we do introductions and I'm like, "Hi, my name is John, I had surgery May of 06 and I've lost 216 pounds" And the pre surgery folks are like asking how I did it and I say, "Well, I stopped eating and I excercise like a monkey" That sort of takes the twinkle out of their eyes if you know what I mean.
In the end, surgery made it so I am not hungry, that gave me the chance to do the rest on my own. Now, I'm never hungry but I always want to eat. That's why I tell people the thing about surgery is that a lot of this job is mental.
“If you’re here for the quick fix, then this surgery is not for you,”
and
Patients need to get into the exercise habit
What I do find fascinating, however, is when I go to support group and we do introductions and I'm like, "Hi, my name is John, I had surgery May of 06 and I've lost 216 pounds" And the pre surgery folks are like asking how I did it and I say, "Well, I stopped eating and I excercise like a monkey" That sort of takes the twinkle out of their eyes if you know what I mean.
In the end, surgery made it so I am not hungry, that gave me the chance to do the rest on my own. Now, I'm never hungry but I always want to eat. That's why I tell people the thing about surgery is that a lot of this job is mental.
The author used no references to back up her claims...
Just because someone wrote it, doesn't make it true. Everything I read, hear or even see with my own eyes, is just a point of view. Just like an opinion. From where I stand I can only see what's in front of me and what's next to me is a blur...Someone with their back to me sees something totally different...
So I only believe half of everything I see, hear or read...With that said....
She's right about me...I am still over weight according to my BMI...I gained back 7-8 lbs....I got anemia and malnutrition (or other vitamin deficiencies) AFTER weight loss surgery. I struggle sometimes making the right choices in food...I hate exercise...and find "other" ways to stay fit....
I can see myself gaining as I get older and less motivated...has it been the miracle that wasnt? UH NO!!!! It's been AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
40% of infants and toddler in america are Vit D deficient already....Iron is another vitamin many americans are deficient or anemic in. B-12 being he reason often and is often needed as a supplement as we get older....osteoporosis is also very common from lack of calcium. So yes...malabsorption puts us particularly at a higher risk for deficiencies....If it were not a problem in America to begin with....We wouldn't see "FORTIFIED with essential vitamins" on nearly everything we buy in a freaking box. There would not be an entire aisle at grocery/ general stores for vitamins and supplements alone! If people eat healthy, more than likely they would be healthy. We KNOW we have absorptions issues right from the start...That's why we take vits...I got lazy with my vits and reality hit me...My boo boo...That was bad judgment on my part, not bad surgery. I ate some cherries and then a huge piece of pineapple last night and was laid out on the floor for a few hours...MY BAD again. So because we had surgery, we are put under the microscope for our bad judgments? When it's not our fault can we blame every single thing that goes wrong with us on WLS?
Just because some people are thin, doesn't mean they are healthy. Do thin healthy "looking" people have high cholesterol and heart attacks? Do athletes die of cancer and heart disease? Do children get diabetes? Yes, because we are not perfect...none of us. Some of us have health nighmares and some of us don't...but we're all gonna die eventually from some malfunction that keeps us form living forever.
I'm not going to take this one womans opinion of my surgery and let her call it a "miracle that isn't" just because it's not her idea of Utopia. I'm so happy with my last 5 years that none of her stats and number and ideas are even close to accurate. It's her point of view from ONE persons horror story as her only "real" refference. She didn't ask me about my troubles with doctors or my malnutrition and anemia....and still being overweight....I feel and look better than I have in YEARS! My life has improved by leaps and bounds....I saw her photo...She's fit and young...I wonder what her labs would look like though if she ran all the same ones I just had done.
Just because someone wrote it, doesn't make it true. Everything I read, hear or even see with my own eyes, is just a point of view. Just like an opinion. From where I stand I can only see what's in front of me and what's next to me is a blur...Someone with their back to me sees something totally different...
So I only believe half of everything I see, hear or read...With that said....
She's right about me...I am still over weight according to my BMI...I gained back 7-8 lbs....I got anemia and malnutrition (or other vitamin deficiencies) AFTER weight loss surgery. I struggle sometimes making the right choices in food...I hate exercise...and find "other" ways to stay fit....
I can see myself gaining as I get older and less motivated...has it been the miracle that wasnt? UH NO!!!! It's been AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
40% of infants and toddler in america are Vit D deficient already....Iron is another vitamin many americans are deficient or anemic in. B-12 being he reason often and is often needed as a supplement as we get older....osteoporosis is also very common from lack of calcium. So yes...malabsorption puts us particularly at a higher risk for deficiencies....If it were not a problem in America to begin with....We wouldn't see "FORTIFIED with essential vitamins" on nearly everything we buy in a freaking box. There would not be an entire aisle at grocery/ general stores for vitamins and supplements alone! If people eat healthy, more than likely they would be healthy. We KNOW we have absorptions issues right from the start...That's why we take vits...I got lazy with my vits and reality hit me...My boo boo...That was bad judgment on my part, not bad surgery. I ate some cherries and then a huge piece of pineapple last night and was laid out on the floor for a few hours...MY BAD again. So because we had surgery, we are put under the microscope for our bad judgments? When it's not our fault can we blame every single thing that goes wrong with us on WLS?
Just because some people are thin, doesn't mean they are healthy. Do thin healthy "looking" people have high cholesterol and heart attacks? Do athletes die of cancer and heart disease? Do children get diabetes? Yes, because we are not perfect...none of us. Some of us have health nighmares and some of us don't...but we're all gonna die eventually from some malfunction that keeps us form living forever.
I'm not going to take this one womans opinion of my surgery and let her call it a "miracle that isn't" just because it's not her idea of Utopia. I'm so happy with my last 5 years that none of her stats and number and ideas are even close to accurate. It's her point of view from ONE persons horror story as her only "real" refference. She didn't ask me about my troubles with doctors or my malnutrition and anemia....and still being overweight....I feel and look better than I have in YEARS! My life has improved by leaps and bounds....I saw her photo...She's fit and young...I wonder what her labs would look like though if she ran all the same ones I just had done.
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