To get a gastric bypass or not too

[Shuri]

My friend that i was talking about earlier in this thread is involved in an support association for obese people, she told me that 90% of people who get those type of operations dont actually succesfully lose weight and keep it down. She's one of the few who actually do it.

[Catz]

One of my friend's mothers had it done. She was easily over 400 lbs. She's very happy with the results now. She lost over 120 lbs in less than a year, and actually complained that it wasn't shedding off faster. Morphix, did you have gastric bypass done as well? Because that's a really dramatic weight loss similar to the results of that kind of surgery. Then again, the subway guy lost something like 200 pounds in a year, so it's possible. Congrats on the hard work 

[Error Macro]

Morphix's secret:

[morphix]

Morphix, did you have gastric bypass done as well? Because that's a really dramatic weight loss similar to the results of that kind of surgery. Then again, the subway guy lost something like 200 pounds in a year, so it's possible. Congrats on the hard work 

I just dieted and exercised everyday.  Like I said before my aunt did have the surgery and I have lost about what she has so far but I look healthily and still have all my hair and teeth (she looks like a walking corpse with a boob job) 

Morphix's secret:

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that is my magic fairy dust 

[Fatghost28]

I think it's more of will power to be honest...sure you can delve deep into it and pull it out but I think it just at ground zero it's lazy.

For me I just wanted to impress girls, so I busted my ass all summer long to come back and make an impression...it's drive man, some people just don't have it or want it that bad.

You can make excuses for everything, but in the end your only cheating yourself.

The same could be said about people who are depressed.  They should just "snap out of it" and stop being whiny emo bitches, right?

If you lost over 20 pounds and keep it off for over three years, statistically speaking you're 1 in 10,000.  Those kind of numbers mean it's not enough to just slap a lazy label on the other 9999.  If "lazy" is the problem, then "lazy" is a deeper and more difficult thing to treat than you think.  Most people just aren't capable of success.  I guess that is pretty hard to accept though, but numbers and decades of research really can't just be thrown out the window just to make us feel like we're really in control.

It's like cancer or heart disease - we all want to think that by not smoking, exercising, and eating lots of broccoli, we can avoid heart disease and cancer, but we can only minimize the risk - we can't completely avoid cancer or heart disease without a big chunk of good luck.  Same with significant and lasting weight loss:  we can do all the right things, but a big factor is good luck in having all the necessary genetics and tools and personality and lifestyle and support network.  Without having all of those ducks in a row, "healthy, natural" weight loss may not be possible or sustainable.

[Himu]

The difference is that in most cases, the people who end up depressed didn't put themselves in that situation. If you sit there all day and don't exercise and shit, well, ofcourse you're going to end up obese.

[Fatghost28]

The difference is that in most cases, the people who end up depressed didn't put themselves in that situation. If you sit there all day and don't exercise and shit, well, ofcourse you're going to end up obese.

The problem is that most obese people are usually dieting and trying to exercise, with little success.  Whether their lifestyle contributed or caused their disease, they still have a disease, and the available data shows that surgery or drugs are the best (statistically speaking the only viable) treatment.