I just posted my response to the lady who told me I was taking the easy way out. that diet and exercise was what I needed. www.youtube.com/shesstrangelynormal

I just posted my response to the lady who told me I was taking the easy way out. that diet and exercise was what I needed. www.youtube.com/shesstrangelynormal

Very good video. Hope she listened in case she ever has a loved one that takes "the easy way" to lose weight.

Me too lol

The "easy way out" is doing nothing

You said the word I always use, "tool". This is a tool. The surgery is just a stepping stone on the pathway to weight loss for all of us!! People will only know what we go through when they walk a mile (or 20) in our shoes. Don't let them get you down! You have far more people who are supportive. I wish as human beings we could remember more of the positive things people say and let go of the negative more easily!! I wish this for myself because I have really struggled with the co-worker who told me face-to-face that I took the easy way out. WEIGHT LOSS IS TOUGH NO MATTER HOW YOU DO IT!!! That's how I feel about it. Thank you for posting StrangelyNormal!!

Carol, Ur very welcome and on a side note, Ur screen name reminds me of one of my favorite songs BC of the band 7MARY3

Ah yes, it is my little homage to them. I'm a fan as well.

Lol. Now I'm singing "cumbersome" and I blame u

It could be SO much worse so I'm OK with taking that blame.

Easy way? I agree with the above post that the EASY way is to do NOTHING and allow obesity to slowly (or NOT so slowly) kill you. If it were as easy as "just exercise and eat right" then obesity would not be at epidemic proportions like it is today in most "first world" countries.

The truth is YES, what is needed is controlled diet and exercise, but just like nearly every other aspect of we human beings we take eating to excess and pay the penalty for it. Being that there are far more overweight and obese people in the world then there are physically fit people, it is obvious the "diet and exercise alone" solution isn't working.

As far as "easy way", my surgery cost me over $5000 cash, not far from what a good majority of people pay in co-pay and deductibles for insurance paid surgery. That's a helvalot of hours of work for me to pay. Not EASY by any stretch. I was miserable at first post-op, more so than I was pre-op and that misery is what prompted me to get sleeved in the first place, that too is a big, hard price to pay, there are times for the first few months I really regretted it, I felt real nasty.

So tell the people to stick with your "the easy way out" theory, I'll stick with the facts that I COULD NOT DO IT ON MY OWN and need the afore mentioned "tool" to help me. It saved my life, literally and figuratively.

you're just too cool :-) Of course we should all be beating our clothes on rocks. ha ! Thanks for the chuckles.

Thanks Rootman, I'm also doing self-pay and there is no aspect of this decision that was easy. Easy was gaining the weight and easy would be letting the repercussions of the weight gain continue to deprive me of living. I've tried so many ways to lose weight, different diets, different exercises, and it just didn't work for me. And it isn't working for Americans in general. I refuse to listen to another person who hasn't battled what I'm battling.

Spatters, I always try n be at my peak of coolness. Lol

People are going to believe what they want anyway. Let them stew in their own ignorance. There is nothing easy about the surgery, easy was regaining my weight and more over and over and over...

The easy way out isnt this surgery, it's much worse-, and something I'm sure a lot of people have contemplated, this is just one way out of the pain and misery of obesity.

It's not the way for everybody, but for many of us it may be the only way. Normal people dont get it, nobody can understand what a day in our life is like.