What Is Your Perception Of People Who Have Had Weight Loss Surgery?
November 23rd, 2009 | 
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Doing research for a paper for Health class and need some opinions… what do you think of people who have had weight loss surgery??
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22 Responses to “What Is Your Perception Of People Who Have Had Weight Loss Surgery?”
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I think it gives them a new lease on life. To help them get their weight and health under control.
My cousin, who is 22, had weight loss surgery three years ago. He was a skinny child, but from when he hit his double digits he started to gain weight, and by the time he was 17 or 18 he was extremely overweight. He tried lots of different diets, but could not lose enough weight to get healthy. His heart was giving out because of the added weight (heart problems run in our family). He had the gastric bypass surgery in hopes of losing the weight faster so that he will live longer. It almost killed him. I am not sure it was the surgeon or just complications with the surgery, but he ended up with a torn liver and a ruptured spleen. His intestines were bleeding too. He spent three months in the hospital in and out of a coma. He got a lot better, and finally got out of the hospital. He was almost 500 pounds. He now weighs about 230 pounds. He is much healthier but still wants to get down into his healthy weight bracket and BMI for his height.
I have heard many great things come from people having gastric bypass and other weight loss surgeries. Many people need it because they are just too overweight to get down to a healthy weight on their own. It is not always a person’s fault that they are big. In my cousin’s case, it was partially his mother’s fault. She let him eat whatever he wanted and never made him exercise when he was little. He played video games all of the time and wasn’t really active. His sister is very overweight too. She wanted to have the surgery but learned from her brother’s surgery. She has been losing weight on her own, very slowly she has gone from about 400 lbs down to 290 lbs.
People can lose weight without it, and there are many reasons to get it done or to not get it done. It is usually a different reason from person to person. I don’t judge. You have no idea what someone’s motives are unless you ask them. Every person will have different reasons. Some people might need it to lose weight in a healthy time frame. Some people might have it done because they want to have a better self esteem. It isn’t like liposuction, it doesn’t make you skinny right off the bat. After the surgery a strenuous diet and exercise program is a must. After the one my cousin had, his stomach would only hold three ounces. He had to really watch what he ate. Now he is used to it, but he eats six small meals a day and works out regularly. It takes a commitment to exercise and take care of your body. Some people have liposuction instead of just working off the weight when they are not truly needing it. I think that most people who have a weight loss surgery really need it, and it isn’t just to get rid of some body weight. It doesn’t get rid of the weight, you have to work it off yourself. It only shrinks the stomach so that the amount a person can eat is a smaller portion.
most of the answers are very judgmental, if you’ve never been in that persons condition you have no right to judge them!
I have thought of having the surgery, but decided against it after a family member had it and got sicker than they were before it. obesity is inherited in my family. exercise only speeds up the coronaries or strokes. we have tried all the diets, the life changes, the diet changes, we loose a few pounds, hit a plateau, and are stuck with the weight.
I know for a fact people who have the surgery are desperate to live!
It is their choice, if they feel they need to use surgery, then they can, most do it after they have tried diets, and do not have enough will power to complete the diet.
Weight Loss Surgery has a lot of health risks, and it doesn’t sound appealing, but I’m not going to look down on someone for having it done.
Well I don’t agree with anyone who says they are taking the “easy way out”..because I don’t see how the surgery is easy. they are very sick for months after surgery and have to take tons of vitamins every day because they can only eat like a cup of food a day. that doesn’t sound easy to me at all.
it can either be viewed as a last resort for people who have tried everything possible to lose weight and couldn’t or a cop out for people who are lazy and have no willpower and don’t want to restrict their daily food intake and exercise
It depends. If you/re doing it as a last resort because your weight is threatening your health, then by all means go for it. But doing it for vanity only shows weakness in character and confidence.
Best not to have an opinion without more information, but I do tend to wonder how it got to the point that diet and exercise weren’t good enough tools for losing weight. I’ve heard discouraging things about the post-surgery mortality rates.
I think that it is a cure for many health problems for some people. My cousin had it while in high school. He lost the weight, starting working out, and has never gone back to being large.
Some people say they are lazy, others applaud them for keeping it up to maintain their weight post op. Honestly, I think that if its a life-threatening situation and they are over 600 lbs..its great they get surgery…
My first impression is lazy, but maybe they have been trying forever and can’t seem to lose weight without extreme measures without starving themselves.
whatever it takes.
sometimes it takes an extrememe measure like surgery
Losing obesity and all it´s handicaps – health problems, bullying filth like weight-bigots – good for them.
if they were dangerously obese, then its perfectly fine
if their a couple of pounds overweight(healthy fat) then its not ok, they should rethink their dumb conscience
most people that have that surgery are unable to lose weight by normal methods. i hold nothing against these people. they are a-ok in my book.
deeply unhappy or insane
self-consiusness
good for them
Rich, lazy a**holes that are just going to gain it all back again because they don’t do sh*t all day exept sit on their fat a**, eat Cheetos, and save up for their next weight loss surgery.
either they were too fat or too lazy to lose weight the old-fashioned way
Saggy.
unstable