This is not something I talk about on line or off but I really feel I have to here.
I have battled with weight for 28 years started with my first pregnacy and I went from 145 lbs to 568 lbs after I had my child, med problems. I can't tell ya how many times I got down to 225 lbs and then the doc's changed my meds and back up to over 400 lbs I would go.
Weight watchers works if ya work it and leaves room for all foods so that ya don't feel deprived.
Meds can and does cause severe weight gains and losses.
My helpful family ( 1 daughter and 1 sister) harrassed me for about 5 years till I gave into gastric bypass surgery. Sometimes ya just can't fight everyone ya get tired. I had it on Oct 8th of 2007 and by Jan 30th 2008 they had to reverse it because I was dying. Please never never encourage anyone to have that surgery. Some of the things they don't tell ya is that you starve to death, not food wise but nutrient wise. Also if ya take meds think about it 99% of the meds today is time released. That means it is programed to work on a normal digestive system. Gastric bypass takes 90% of that away so your meds don't work. They'll tell ya that 1 in 10,000 dies from that surgery what they don't tell ya is that is what dies on the table. Once off that table then it can kill ya but it is listed under different things like gastric infection, bleeding disorder, has hundreds of names for the death but wouldn't of happened with out that surgery. What they don't tell ya is if they take the complications that occur after that surgery it is more like 1 in 5 die with complications that come as a direct result of that surgery. Yes people gain the weight back after a few years but not because they don't follow the diet it is because the body works like a desert if it doesn't get enough of what it needs then it stores it. Water, don't drink enough ya got water retention. Don't eat enough nutrients then it stores fat. And ya can't get enough with vits and such. I will tell ya right now that nobody can understand weigh loss problems unless they have been there.
And as far as the comment about this girl not caring enough about herself to make a change. Well that is a misguided statement and that is the kind of statements that send over weight people into depression and feeling like they can't lose the weight. It is not meant to but it does. Over weight people are very discriminated against. One other thing there is no statistics on weight loss surgery none they have been done but they are not out there. I will tell ya that I now have even more problems medical wise then before the surgery and I will have to have more surgeries as a result of the lack of nutrients my body was deprived from while I had that surgery.
I actually lost more weight before the surgery and after the reversal then I did with that surgery.
I have lost 157 lbs in the last year and only 32 was during the 4 months that I had that surgery.
I still have 100 lbs to go. I have done it before and will do it again. That weight will go off but at a slow healthy rate. I also have stopped taking the meds that cause the weight gains and won't take them again.
Someone mentioned Paul McKenna from the show I can make ya thin. He can and it is a healthy thin and addresses everything including emotions and emotional eating. I never do catch his show I seen it once and it made a huge difference.
It took me almost dying to realise that people judge you for what is on the outside, and their opinion isn't worth it. You have to accept who you are on the inside before working on that outside, and that outside work has to be for you and nobody else. You also need the support of a higher power and good friends.
Great job supporting your friend I am sure she knows you care for her insides and that is why you want her outside to be healthy.
Thank you for letting me share. I sure hope I don't regret it. I just hope it helps one person realise the damage that that surgery can do. Doc's don't want to reverse it and they don't want people to know reversal is even possiable. But I would of died without that reversal and I also know 2 people who have died since I had that surgery and 1 that will die this month as a result of the surgery.
Off my soap box.
I have battled with weight for 28 years started with my first pregnacy and I went from 145 lbs to 568 lbs after I had my child, med problems. I can't tell ya how many times I got down to 225 lbs and then the doc's changed my meds and back up to over 400 lbs I would go.
Weight watchers works if ya work it and leaves room for all foods so that ya don't feel deprived.
Meds can and does cause severe weight gains and losses.
My helpful family ( 1 daughter and 1 sister) harrassed me for about 5 years till I gave into gastric bypass surgery. Sometimes ya just can't fight everyone ya get tired. I had it on Oct 8th of 2007 and by Jan 30th 2008 they had to reverse it because I was dying. Please never never encourage anyone to have that surgery. Some of the things they don't tell ya is that you starve to death, not food wise but nutrient wise. Also if ya take meds think about it 99% of the meds today is time released. That means it is programed to work on a normal digestive system. Gastric bypass takes 90% of that away so your meds don't work. They'll tell ya that 1 in 10,000 dies from that surgery what they don't tell ya is that is what dies on the table. Once off that table then it can kill ya but it is listed under different things like gastric infection, bleeding disorder, has hundreds of names for the death but wouldn't of happened with out that surgery. What they don't tell ya is if they take the complications that occur after that surgery it is more like 1 in 5 die with complications that come as a direct result of that surgery. Yes people gain the weight back after a few years but not because they don't follow the diet it is because the body works like a desert if it doesn't get enough of what it needs then it stores it. Water, don't drink enough ya got water retention. Don't eat enough nutrients then it stores fat. And ya can't get enough with vits and such. I will tell ya right now that nobody can understand weigh loss problems unless they have been there.
And as far as the comment about this girl not caring enough about herself to make a change. Well that is a misguided statement and that is the kind of statements that send over weight people into depression and feeling like they can't lose the weight. It is not meant to but it does. Over weight people are very discriminated against. One other thing there is no statistics on weight loss surgery none they have been done but they are not out there. I will tell ya that I now have even more problems medical wise then before the surgery and I will have to have more surgeries as a result of the lack of nutrients my body was deprived from while I had that surgery.
I actually lost more weight before the surgery and after the reversal then I did with that surgery.
I have lost 157 lbs in the last year and only 32 was during the 4 months that I had that surgery.
I still have 100 lbs to go. I have done it before and will do it again. That weight will go off but at a slow healthy rate. I also have stopped taking the meds that cause the weight gains and won't take them again.
Someone mentioned Paul McKenna from the show I can make ya thin. He can and it is a healthy thin and addresses everything including emotions and emotional eating. I never do catch his show I seen it once and it made a huge difference.
It took me almost dying to realise that people judge you for what is on the outside, and their opinion isn't worth it. You have to accept who you are on the inside before working on that outside, and that outside work has to be for you and nobody else. You also need the support of a higher power and good friends.
Great job supporting your friend I am sure she knows you care for her insides and that is why you want her outside to be healthy.
Thank you for letting me share. I sure hope I don't regret it. I just hope it helps one person realise the damage that that surgery can do. Doc's don't want to reverse it and they don't want people to know reversal is even possiable. But I would of died without that reversal and I also know 2 people who have died since I had that surgery and 1 that will die this month as a result of the surgery.
Off my soap box.
