The new "New York Magazine" has an interesting article on bariatric surgery - entitled "Stomach Surgery to Get Thin, but Not Necessarily Happy". *This article can be accessed if you copy and paste the entire address below into your web browser.

http://www.newyorkmagazine.com/nymetro/health/features/11958/index.html

I found it very interesting - and I could relate to many (not all) of the comments. I thought I'd share the link.

Mary

I thought this was an interesting read as well. However, I think it says much more about the people involved than about weight-loss surgery. They could just as easily have done a story (and I know they have) about sudden lottery winners losing their minds.

The point in stories like this seems to be that there's a dark side to having your dreams come true. Well, of course there CAN be, but it's by no means a given.

These ladies were on the Today show this AM, along with Al, telling a little of their story, basically pointing out the loss of weight was not the answer to their problems. I was more taken by their beauty after the weight loss than the story. Afterall, everyone has their own story.

Well, I suppose it all depends on what you think your problems are. So far, it has helped with my little "not breathing" problem quite nicely. But I don't think my weightloss so far is going to help me pass my finals tomorrow!

My DH's current weightloss has saved our marrage, so I suppose that is a plus on the losing side. I know there will be more challenges once he loses another 100 pounds though.

I loved this article...very good read, I was stuck on it, reading it to the end! Very interesting writer's perspective and interviews.

Like winning the lottery, I'd rather lose the weight and "suffer" through the adjustment period a more slender person. It seems we are always finding something within ourselves to rail against, I'd just as soon rail against a new improved bod. Suits me!

Wow, that article was written very well. Being that I have not had the surgery, it provides more insight for me. I don't expect the surgery to be the end-all of my problems. I just want life as a fat person to be a little easier....I would love to run. I want to be forced in to the mind set of what a "real" portoin size is.

The whole "real" portion thing is sarcastically funny to me, esp today. I thnk a week's worth of reading bandster stuff has given me that syndrome where you think you have every thing you read about ( can't think of the term). I went to a restaurant and got a meal and starting feeling sick looking at the huge portions that they gave me. I ended up throwing half of it away. I have also managed to convince myself that I have joint and back pain, although I haven't done anything strenuous all weekend. Well I'm going to a chiropractor today just to be sure though.

Sorry for going off topic a bit. But talking about portions, the other day a co worker (slender female) was eating lunch with me and was telling me to "eat more". I had this little bowl of Soup and a small portion of mash potatoes, which for me seemed a lot, but there is this skinny little girl telling me to eat more

Never thought something like this would ever happen to me.....