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Originally Posted by Bytsi
My "issue" with surgery is that lifestyle change isn't emphasized enough. People who DO have great success (with surgery and lifestyle change) might have achieved the same results without risky invasive surgery if they'd simply stuck to the changes they made anyway along with the surgery.
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This is my problem as well, some (not all) doctors prescribe this as some sort of miracle. When you are in their office, they make claims like "you'll get your life back" "you'll be happier" but like you said many times the reasons we're fat aren't just connected to we eat more and don't move around, it's deeper than that. If you're not ready to do some deep psyche, and make a huge life overhaul...you'll have your life back for awhile, and then you'll lose it all over again by gaining the weight back...the same way you did the first time. It took some therapy for me to realize why I ate do much to really re-frame my thought process. And now it's taking lots of hard work to keep what I've lost off, and lose more. It comes down to, it's easier to get the surgery, for those who aren't afraid to go under the knife. It seemed that way to me until I spoke to people and knew people who had gone through it.
Surgery is not a miracle...unless you make it one with hard work and life changes!
Which I'd personally prefer to do myself...
