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This lady at gvh where I am getting tests for surgery who is 3 times my size goes why so drastic of a surgery for this. I wanted to tell her off.

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Its not for everybody, it takes a strong person to face their problems head on! I noticed yesterday just how many glucose meter commercials there where on tv. I've never noticed them really up until lately...some people just don't get the severity of the problem we have on this continent...its called denial. Carry on, what you are doing will dramatically change your life...for the better :)

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I saw a glucose monitor commercial that looked like it was marketed toward 13 year olds the other day. and it made me sick because IT IS marketed at 13 year olds!! that's where we are as a society!! (at least, in the us. I'm too fat to fly - LOL!)

don't let anyone shame you for making a choice to change your own life for the better. if she's that much bigger than you, she's probably that much more miserable about it, and this is her way of reinforcing her OWN decision to do nothing... she's projecting her negative thoughts about it on you.

kill em with kindness... next time (hopefully there won't be one) just tell the person you're doing this to improve your health and move on! :)

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don't let anyone shame you for making a choice to change your own life for the better. if she's that much bigger than you, she's probably that much more miserable about it, and this is her way of reinforcing her OWN decision to do nothing... she's projecting her negative thoughts about it on you.

Love this! I just told her ummm I need to and smiled. Thankfully I am a confident tough chic!

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Its not for everybody' date=' it takes a strong person to face their problems head on! I noticed yesterday just how many glucose meter commercials there where on tv. I've never noticed them really up until lately...some people just don't get the severity of the problem we have on this continent...its called denial. Carry on, what you are doing will dramatically change your life...for the better :)[/quote']

I don't understand what you mean by glucose meter commercials?

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It means that diabetes is so bad that it is worth advertisers spending their money to market glucometers to the general public. It used to be a disease for the very old. Now type II diabetes is taking over every age and ethnicity in this country. Because we are fat fat fat. After you have been sleeved for awhile you will start to notice how fat people really are (and at 258 I still have a long way to go) and also how much food people eat. It astounds me what my husband eats and I used to be able to keep up with him no problem!

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It means that diabetes is so bad that it is worth advertisers spending their money to market glucometers to the general public. It used to be a disease for the very old. Now type II diabetes is taking over every age and ethnicity in this country. Because we are fat fat fat. After you have been sleeved for awhile you will start to notice how fat people really are (and at 258 I still have a long way to go) and also how much food people eat. It astounds me what my husband eats and I used to be able to keep up with him no problem!

Thank you for explaining. I am not from the US so it didn't make sense to me. We don't have those commercials though we do have an escalating obesity problem.

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