As a WLSer, we are given a tool to help us lose weight. Along with that tool our surgeons give us a set of guidelines on how to maximize the effective use of that tool in our lives. If you follow those guidelines, you are all but guaranteed that your surgery will work, and you will not only lose weight but keep it off.
There’s just one problem. We’re human.
For many of us, rules are meant to be broken. We get complacent. We get lazy. We get… Whatever it is, there’s going to come a time where we “break the rules”.
And ya know what? That’s ok.
I’ve gone back and forth about posting things here on FFD that are just links to other sites, news articles, etc… when I find things of interest, I like to try and summarize how they are relevant to someone looking in to or has had WLS. But, I don’t always have the time to do so… and I figure why not start sharing these things I come across anyways? So… I’m starting up the “newsroom” category to use for when I post links to outside stories.
I have a couple to share real quick, one was posted by someone on twitter this morning and another from someone over on the BTV forums.
Confidence rises in weight loss surgery – at first I thought this was going to be about how the patient confidence rises, but it’s more about how WLS is increasingly becoming accepted as a treatment for morbid obesity.
Weight-Loss Surgery Pays For Itself After 2 Years, Study Shows – This is an older item, from September of 2008, but even then studies were showing how WLS would pay back in spades, not just from a health perspective, but also money wise.
While I would much rather you spent all of your free time reading what I have to offer here at formerfatdudes.com, I can’t keep up with writing enough stuff to keep you properly entertained and informed. Especially when I spend a good chunk of my time reading other sites myself.
Sites like Small Bites.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
It was roughly 13 months ago that I started down the path to WLS by getting a referral from my doctor to the bariatric clinic.
One year and two days ago I met with the nutritionist and was put on a 1500 calorie a day meal plan to lose the required pre-op weight. Yea, I kinda cheated a bit on Thanksgiving… and Christmas. But I made the commitment and did a lot better than I had the year before.
Now here it is a year, and bout 185 pounds later, and I am truly thankful I made the decision to have this surgery.
I have no doubt I will be here for many many more Thankgivings to come than I otherwise would have been…. years I’ll be able to further enjoy the other many things I’m thankful for, such as my friends and family… and also thanks to the surgery I can truly add good health to the list of things I am thankful for.
Enjoy your day everyone.
