Mon Feb 4...Teenage lapband on Oprah

bandiva · February 8, 2008

Wow...lots of great points. Green, you nailed it on the head, and I am going to quote you next time someone tries to make me feel like s**t for my decision.

loriely · February 8, 2008

WOW bandiva you have reached your goal.Good for you .You must feel better.Great job

Gaffer · February 8, 2008

Wow...lots of great points. Green, you nailed it on the head, and I am going to quote you next time someone tries to make me feel like s**t for my decision.

This raises an interesting point. It sounds like you have had some negative reaction from others about your decision to have the Lapband.

I can honestly say that no one has brought this up with me, at least to my face. How the hell is it anyone's business but your own what you do to yourself. Your results speak for themselves.

What the hell is wrong with people out there. Taking the easy way out. I could walk to work 20km everyday, but I drive my car. Is this the easy way out, or the smart way.

Like Green said, if you are diabetic you take insulin, if you have a headache you take a tylenol.

All of us here who are banded have chosen to take that smart way out and get off the cylce of diets that had beat us down for too long. We have chosen to prolong our lives by losing the weight and empowering ourselves to take control of our weight and our health.

If that is the easy way out, then yes I took it. But I will tell you all, I for one have taken control of my life, my weight my health and my happiness. If someone cannot handle that, then I dont need them around.

Sorry if that seem like a bit of a rant, but it really bothers me when people crap on others for having WLS.

Andrew

marcar35 · February 9, 2008

I rarely watch Oprah but the show came on as I was getting ready to go to work. Kudos to the mothers of the kids who were able to recognize their kids had a problem but I was a little ticked at Dr. Oz when he said the band is not as successful as other forms of surgery :thumbup:. Oprah is a perfect candidate for banding but her holier-than-thou attitude will never make her admit it.

bandiva · February 9, 2008

Andrew, thank you for your support and I know how you feel. To be perfectly honest, there was a time in my life when I thought I was 'above' WLS...I know now that it was really fear and jealosy, but at the time I was all rightous and would say negative things behind the other persons back. My, my, how I have changed. I now understand that it is a sickness and in my case I know it is an addiction. Thank God for the band! I am so happy, fit and healthy now. My life and my families life is so much better. I still battle my demons, but atleast I am not killing myself anymore.

marcar35 · February 9, 2008

Bandiva - congrats on reaching goal weight.

Did you ever have those nights where you would say "I'd kill to have a good binge"? How did you handle it? I'm going through that phase right now :thumbup:

bandiva · February 9, 2008

Marcar35....I know what you mean about the band vs. gastric bypass. My doctor (gp) wanted me to have gastric bypass cause he doesn't think the band really works. It was really fun a couple weeks ago I went to my GP for the first time in about a year...he walked in the room, walked back out, then came back in and started laughing and said, I didn't recognise you! Sweet!

marcar35 · February 9, 2008

Bandiva - I lucked out on that because my GP knew all about the band and she was very supportive. She's actually asked me to talk to some of her patients about it.

Gaffer · February 11, 2008

I was a little ticked at Dr. Oz when he said the band is not as successful as other forms of surgery ..

Obviously he does not know what he is talking about. I also liked it when he was refering to the band going around your stomach and showing it with both hands, like it is the diameter of a grapefruit.

I had some respect for him up until that point, but after that I lost it all.

Oprah is a perfect candidate for banding but her holier-than-thou attitude will never make her admit it.

Oprah is the perfect candidate. Depsite all her money, personal trainers, chefs, spiritual advisers and her divine knowledge (because she acts like she knows everything about everything) she has not been able to maintain a stable weight.

Here is my thought. Oprah has started her journey to the Lap-band. The seed has been planted in her mind. It will continue to grow to the point that she cant avoid it any more and she will be on her private jet to Tijuana to see Dr. Ortiz.

You heard it here first.

You local Soothsayer,

Andrew