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Is it just me but did anyone read the title as "barbaric surgery "
Its key hole, that's not as bad surely
Willpower is a mental state. No amount of surgery will fix it.
But it helps if you no longer feel hungry all the time like I used to before my gastric band. Before it I would never get full. This wasn't a result of lack of willpower, this was a result of numerous surgeries which left me unable to walk more than a couple of hundred metres for over a year each time I had to have the surgery. Going from being somewhat active to not active at all really made me pile on the weight. Combined with being bored from not been able to do the things I used to do made me eat a lot more.
Having the band meant that I at least didn't feel hungry all the time. It meant that I could actually diet and not feel like it was a waste of time. I lost 50 kilos in 4 years.
Unfortunately I developed breathing problems which turned out to be caused by the band and I had to get most of the fluid back out so have now put half of it back on again (in just under a year). I'm slowly getting it tightened again and sure enough the weight is coming off again.
So it can work! I wish I had got the sleeve in hindsight (not as many side effects), but the band also can work if you actually do follow a healthy eating plan.
Really? You're going to compare someone going through IVF to someone who chooses to kill themselves with cigarettes?
Can you please explain why?
(Also, I'm not deliberately trying to single you out, I'd just like to hear the view from another perspective).
Sure.
I guess my argument is that we dont NOT treat others who have made poor choices in their life. drink driving, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, not getting pap smears, not getting prostate checks etc etc. so i dont see how the argument could be made that morbidly obese people shouldn't receive treatment too.
People need to take responsibilites for their actions,
you smoke, eat mcdonalds everyday,then you are going to have health problems,
no one takes responsbiltiy for their actions in the 21st century
people undergo IVF for various different reasons. quite often it's because of various choices they've made that have resulted in delaying starting a family. sometimes they aren't choices.
im not saying they are one and the same. merely trying to point out that the public health system funds tons of different operations, medications etc etc because of decisions people have made earlier in their life.
i just find it interesting that the line is drawn at bariatric surgery for many.
obesity is multi-factorial and genetics does play a huge role.
Believe it or not you are demonstrating Willpower!
People need to take responsibilites for their actions,
you smoke, eat mcdonalds everyday,then you are going to have health problems,
no one takes responsbiltiy for their actions in the 21st century
No one? Not even yourself?
how can you apply that to everyone?
Seems to me we are being asked to fund people's lack of Willpower.
What next?