This is the after weight loss story of one woman that everyone should read before deciding whether to go ahead with gastric bypass or any other kind of weight loss surgery.
She says:
Well, for me it was no answer, and I have been left:
housebound and disabled by it,
fatter than before,
with more emotional and physical problems than before I had it.
So don't believe all the hype. There are NO long term studies or research that have been released, and it won`t take a genius to work out why. This surgery is the equivalent of cutting off your ear if you get earache.
It does not allow for `emotional` eating, genetics, or the fact that it is fully possible to be healthy and larger than the average person. I can only tell you things that have happened to me from my point of view, and I realise that it is not the same for everyone.
It's a lie that life after weight loss surgery is wonderful
Things are seen and read in books and magazines showing it as a wonder `cure`, and I think: why call it a `cure` for something that actually isn't a problem in the first place? It has actually been proven that being so called `overweight` can be healthy.
There are many books, such as The Diet Myth by Paul Campos, that explain how the diet industry is a con and a lucrative money making industry, and books like I want to Live by Dani Hart, telling what happened to her after weight loss surgery.
I came to realise that all my problems were not being caused by food as such, just that I was using food as a crutch in lifebecause I didn't know or understand how to nurture myself, in fact I hated myself. I was prepared to die to be thin, because I just couldn't accept myself at that time.
But surgery was not the answer for me, and is not for many many people who come to discover that dealing with an EMOTIONAL problem by PHYSICAL means will just not work in the long run.
After Weight Loss Surgery still so much to come to terms with!
This surgery in time will be viewed like the labotomies performed in the 1950`s; abhorrent, appalling, inappropriate and totally unnecessary. Also not proven to work, but so common place and Mb>mired in money and illusion and scientific claptrap that everyone thought it did work-for a while.
As you can no doubt tell I am still having to come to terms with what I have done to myself in order to be merely 'acceptable'. I am living day to day as best I can, knowing that I took my good health and threw it down the drain in order to be 'thin'.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!!! isn`t it? I cannot tell people what to do about this sort of decision, because it is for all of us to travel our own journeys, and people have to do what is right for themselves. But eventually the truth that this surgery does not work will come out, and there are already thousands of lawsuits in progress.
Far better to deal with our problems and issues by talking them out rather than trying to hack them out with a scalpel.
Sometimes people do not wish to hear what I am saying, thinking that at the end of the day if dieting doesn't work then surgery will. I don`t wish to upset anyone, truly I don`t, but is it not society that has the problem with us?
We are often treated so badly..like society's scapegoats..Why should we be the ones cutting ourselves up, starving ourselves, hating ourselves, just be be merely `acceptable` to others, people that half the time we don`t even know?
It really only matters what we think of ourselves, that we learn to love ourselves and truly get to understand and accept ourselves. This has been a hard lesson for me and I am still learning from it.
If it had 'worked' how would my life after weight loss surgery be different?
If this surgery had 'worked` I would still have had all the problems on the inside to deal with. They would have popped out in some other way, perhaps an addiction of some sort, who can say? Better to deal with inner issues first I think. At least for me.
I know that perhaps not everyone will agree with me; as I said, I can only talk from my personal experiences. I am in rather a horrendous mess physically right now, so it's difficult to be objective when talking about the after of weight loss surgery.
But there are many thousands of others out there who are in the same position as me; instead of dealing with our issues on a psychological level we turned to the scalpel. In my case I thought it was a quick and easy 'fix'. Oh the irony of it all.
But everything happens to us for a reason, and perhaps it is my karma to learn these lessons. I do believe that we are on a spiritual path through life and there are no accidents. It`s been a hard lesson for me, to know that I hated myself so much and let other people treat me so badly. But there is always hope, and things can get better if we allow them to and stop giving ourselves a hard time. We are what we are.
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