Have you been criticized for not doing it the "hard" way?

brendajean316

Thanks, @StevenGarrigus , I'm learning to adopt that attitude. The people who have reached out to me in support is what has helped me feel not alone and to not take small-minded opinions to heart. I think I'll never leave this group!

loveshoe

WLS is the 'old-fashioned' way, the surgery was developed in the 1960's. It took a long time for insurance companies and the general population to recognize that obesity is a medical condition and start paying for surgery. Still, some insurance companies make people jump through hoops to get coverage.

As my doctor told me being smart or rich can't control your genetics. If so, he said Oprah would be the thinnest healthiest person we see on TV. He said no matter how much some of us diet, we can lose the weight but genetically we are predisposed to being overweight and our bodies will do whatever it takes to put weight back on. He said that WLS evens the scales and if the tool is used correctly you can lose 100% of the weight and keep it off.

I don't know one person who had weight loss surgery that didn't join the professional yo-yo dieters club. My PCP recommended I have the surgery because the yo-yo dieting just wasn't good for me after so many years of up/down weight. I'm grateful for him actually thinking about my future health.

It's been 3+ years, I'm maintaining my weight loss the 'old-fashioned' way. I'm grateful for the tool that evened my odds of keeping the weight off.

NuMi2018

No family outside of my immediate family knows I had this surgery. They were already so judgemental when it came to my weight beforehand and because of it I haven't talked to any of them in years, so I figure it's really none of their business. I did this for ME.

brendajean316

NuMi2018 wrote: »

I did this for ME.

You did it for the most important person! You're weight loss looks good on you!!

garber6th

I have found that the people who are most critical and opinionated are the people who are the most uninformed. Like it was previously mentioned, people on the general MFP boards are the worst. Part of the problem is that the most negative horror stories or failure stories tend to get repeated more frequently than the success stories. I was pushing 400 lbs and I chose to have surgery to get myself out of a dangerous place more quickly than I could do it on my own, as well as to have the tool of surgery for my own checks and balances. If people want to be judgmental of me because I have had surgery, it's not going to affect me at all, but it really is asinine. I'm a healthy person now, and for someone to criticize me for that in any way makes no sense.