Ok, the title is not me. It is actually a TV show about people who weigh more than 600 lbs and they get a gastric bypass and they are followed around for a year to see how their progress goes. I happened to find it one night when I was flipping channels and then ended up watching about 3 or 4 shows in a row in fascination.
The thing that really struck me were most of them were really whiny and had excuse after excuse as to why they couldn't lose the weight and would outright lie to the doctor that they were doing what they were supposed to, yet the cameras showed them eating exactly what they were eating that caused them to gain the weight in the first place. One girl ate bean sandwiches! She poured a can of beans on white bread and ate it. Ummm....nooooo. The kicker to the whole show was though that NONE of them lost all that much weight after the bypass, and a year later still weighed way over 300 lbs if not over 400. And again the camera showed them eating what they ate before.
I was like why would they do that?? They went through all that pain to have the surgery and said they didn't want to be so fat anymore, but then they still go back to it. I can think of two people I know personally who had it done 2 or 3 years ago and they lost weight pretty quickly and to this day are still at a good weight for their heights. So I look at these people of this show in and think they really need to stop the whining and do what the doctor and the nutritionist (that the doc sets them up with) says. Granted I don't care for the doctor on the show, he seems very impersonal and just not very likeable, which I think for the job he is doing you would think he wouldn't be like that. Go figure.
I don't make any excuses or whine about my weight...it is my fault and I know it.
But man I don't want to weigh 600 lbs......
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