From: vitkauskas5568@... <vitkauskas5568@...>
Subject: Re: [baltimorebariatrics] Easy way out?
To: baltimorebariatrics@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 1:59 PM

I am addicted to Ruby...the show,   the woman makes me nuts.  I dont think she realizes the gift she is being offered and yet still I know she wont maintain.  I personally have lost over 100 pounds 3 times in my life and after 5 years + this is the only time is has stayed off, not without hard work mind you but in the past nothing kept it off.  I truly do think for your sanity you should just decided to agree to disagree I am so glad that I am finally able to ignor the condicending "normal sized" folks in this world who consume more calories on a daily basis than I EVER did and have the nerve to tell me I could have been thin if I chose to. Most of those people are my relatives.

anyway  I think Doc Roe should write the show and offer to do her bypass when she fails....i will help pitch in for his costs.!!!

Diana


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From: sylkwill <sylvie.williams@ gmail.com>
To: baltimorebariatrics @yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 2:19 pm
Subject: [baltimorebariatric s] Easy way out?

I had my surgery October 2007 and I expected people to tell me I was
takign the easy way out. Except for a couple comments on my blog
about what else had I tried and had I looked at the long term
consequences of my decision, nobody said much.

Today, on a graduate school colleague's blog, I notice words to this
effect:

"I love this show because somebody of Ruby's size can easily (and
justifiably) get gastric bypass - instead, she's actually doing all
the hard work. She's losing weight the healthy way and focusing on
the three key components (food, exercise, emotional work). "

Implying that gastric bypass requires no work on the patient's part.
We must be lazy to resort to this surgery.

After a lot of thinking and going back and forth between saying
something or not, all I commented was:

"Not to start an argument or even a discussion because everyone's
allowed their opinion, having had Gastric Bypass myself (after
trying all the so called hard ways), it was definitely not the easy
way out."

To which, her response was:

"We should probably agree to disagree on this one. :)

I think the whole gastric thing deserves its own blog post so I'll
save my reservations about it for later. I know that gastric is a
very serious procedure and going through it isn't a piece of cake.
However, I do think losing weight naturally is a lot harder than
getting your stomach altered."

Am I wrong in feeling insulted? Maybe I am reading a little too much
into this specific blog post but I am so tired of people assuming
that I tried nothing else before asking the doc to "alter my
stomach." The surgery might have been the easiest part, but I am
working damn hard to make sure I don't throw away that surgery. Just
like everyone else, I have to watch what I eat, how much I eat, when
I eat etc. I have to make myself go to the gym and workout if I want
to maintain a steady weight loss. I have to control my sugar intake,
make sure I am getting the protein. In some ways, I have to be more
diligent than somebody who hasn't had surgery. So, who the eff is
working harder?

I just needed to rant so I wouldn't strangle my acquaintance.

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