It IS possible to lose a large amount of weight without surg

http://theantijared.blogspot.com/2010/09/expected.html

I enjoy reading his blog when I get the time, he's a member on here that's not around too much, so you may not be as familiar with him. He's more a part of the blog world.:drinker:

So I thought I'd post his blog link for those of you that have not had a chance to take a look at his journey. His journey was done without weight loss surgery and you'll be simply amazed by his transformation from Day 1 to current photos.

This particular post of his is about his choice not to have WLS so it might interest some, we all have choices, we all make our own. We do what we feel will be best for us and live with that.

I chose not to go the WLS route, for me it was about doing it all on my own. I succeeded and I am so very proud of myself. Some of you went the other route and have had success in that, continue to work hard and have every right to be proud, I just knew it wasn't for me.

I think we make our decisions for what we need to do for us. For myself I needed to do it alone and prove to myself that I could, I knew that I could and any less than that I would have felt like I failed. That is simply me though. :flowerforyou:

I just wanted to add that this is merely a post sharing a bloggers story of success not a pro vs. con on WLS. If it came across any other way, my apologies, that was not my intention at all. I just like to see success stories of ppl that needed to drop several hundered lbs and did it WITHOUT WLS. I think some think that is the only way, it's not happened to me directly but several friends on here have shared they were actually ask if they had the surgery done after losing a large amount of weight. We DO know that losing a large amount of weight can be done with changing food habits and working out, right? it can come in many forms

Assuming is never a good thing, weight loss can be caused by any number of things, Cancer, other illness's, a personal goal to lose weight, WLS. If someone came up to me and ask me that question and I hadn't been working on losing weight, I think it would be very ackward and inappropriate. I shared a very brief story the other day on a thread where ppl were asking why noone ever mentions that they look lke they've lost weight.

We have a volunteer that works in our office area that has Stage 4 Cancer, she has not made it public to many. She's dropped down to under 100 lbs. The hardest thing for her she's shaed is when ppl come up and say HOW DID YOU DO IT? What diet, you've GOT to TELL ME! :ohwell:

Hm.....