I pray and hope this go through, I agree with both you and Lakeisha on the matter of the surgery. As I stated to you, I did go to the meeting at Northwestern University. Surgery is no piece of cake, did you know that if you do make the mistake of eating something that you’re not suppose to, that because of the surgery your body will reject those foods and baby it won’t be pretty. You get sick, you throw up and you feel awful, these are the things you can no longer have when you get the surgery. No carbs (period), sugar (period), soda (including diet) beer, pizza of no kind (including your delicious pizza), a small piece of rib tips (no greasy food period). I was funk that man, you can only have 64 oz of water a day, the doctor said some people can drink that in one sitting, after the surgery it will take you a full day to get that down. You have to take it really, really slow eating otherwise your body will throw it back up. So no eating on the go.
I was like damn! I rather try to exercise as best I can, and eat healthier, at least I can treat myself once in a while and have family night, make me one of your pizzas and enjoy myself. Because of you, a close friend of mine who did have the Bariatric Surgery, and the meeting. I decided not to go through with it. The surgery is way harder than just doing it myself, even if I did cheat, the pain of being sick just wouldn’t be worth all that.

I’m glad you support the site and I hope that it continues to help you… but I stand by my position. Surgery allows you to lose weight regardless of how many mistakes or screw-ups you make on your journey. I value my screw ups, because I’ve learned from them. Surgery takes that opportunity away from you. I stand behind that.

I am perfectly aware that it’s about more that going under a knife, and voila… but just like there’s more to surgery, there is way more to weight loss in general that cannot be ignored. Surgery undercuts that. Sorry that we disagree.

I think you can do it without the surgery, as long as you have supportive people around you.

It’s been very hard for me to loose weight ever since I was young. I don’t remember my slim years at all. I tried Bally’s but quit after I was insulted by a man who was trying to pick up on me. Some times I think those women are there to loose weight but also to fine a man, how do you to the gym with make up on looking like you are in a beauty pagent. So I’m on the treadmill and I had on a sauna suit, when I told him that I wasn’t interested he told me that I look like a big thing of aluminum foil and walked off. I never returned, I tried women’s work out world, curves and so forth. Maybe it’s just me! I know it is, so Tuesday I have an appt. to go to a seminar at Northwestern Hospital for the lapband surgery. I’ve heard mixed messages about it, what do you think about it?

The title of the article is about the fact that people tend to think that only surgery can bring about major weight loss. If you bothered to browse the site, you can see that I’ve endured my OWN major transformation, so CLEARLY I don’t believe that to be the case.

Alas, I understand how people post on the Internet. It happens.

Have a lovely day!