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Originally Posted by SpacecityPaula
Actually psychologically, a lot of people do not find GBS a successful tool, they actually transfer the problem with food to another mode - alcoholism, gambling, shopping, and promiscuity. When Bob Greene and Oprah launched the whole "Your best life Now" Program, one of the things he said is that often fat is used to "hide" some emotional issue and until you are willing to look at that, you won't be successful. I know that the statement true in my case, and I am dealing with the issues as they come up.
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no, I'm sure they don't. I'm saying that is potentially WHY people turn to it, and that in the end it's just a tool like everything else (albiet a risky tool).
ANY change in life, weight loss including, brings about a LOT of other stuff. And for any person to be successful in anything they need to overcome whatever is holding them back... Sometimes failure or non-change is a comfort too great to change, sometimes looking at what's really going on is too painful to deal with.
There's a lot of pain, or at least discomfort, in change, of any kind, and people often choose to avoid it rather than reap the potential rewards of change for any number of reason.
Surgery is still a tool. It's as successful as the person using it. It itself has nothing more or less to offer than most other tools (risks aside)... use it correctly and get the results you want; use it incorrectly and don't.
People yo-yo all the time. People lose lots of weight and gain it all back all the time. People lose lots of weight and gain even more back all the time. People lose weight and keep it off all the time. People lose weight and gain a bit back all the time. Regardless of the tool they use, it's the people... and sometimes people find the right tool, are in the right place in their lives, are psychologically ready to move on, etc. And sometimes they're not.