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Originally posted by MereMere21
My MIL is one of those non success stories. She had her stomach stapled in 1990 (?) I believe. When she had the surgery she was 450 lbs. Today she weighs - 450 lbs. She lost about 200 lbs after surgery and then put all the weight back on, plus I think she might have gained some more. This surgery is the pre cursor to the Roux en Y procedure done today that has a far better success rate. My MIL is one of those people that blamed everybody and everything else for her being morbidly obese. She gets on my last nerve because to this day she bitches and moans about it. All I have to say is that if you would get your ass out of the recliner to do more than get another ding dong, maybe you wouldn't have gained the weight back!
Like I said, Obesity is a disease - laziness is something else. I would say her probelm was genetics, but she is the only overweight one in her family. My husband is 6'3" 190 lbs, his brother is 6'5" 250 lbs. Her parents were not heavy either.
Pretty much every shift I work I see people who would not be in an Intesive Care Unit if they had taken care of themselves. Don't even get me started on the Type II Diabetes patients!
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There is another issue at hand too, that it is thought in the "research arena", that being morbidly obese exacerbates the underlying problem of depression...
So, basically, morbidly obese persons eat because they have some sort of depression, then they feel bad because they ate, so then ILLOGICALLY, they eat more because it is well known in neurobiochemistry that the sugar gets you high--but is smashes you in the end... So, sugar addiction plays a role in the continuance of the morbidly obese...
Moreover, at least what the research says and this is psychological, that morbidly obese people never realize that their weight loss will occur very S-L-O-W-L-Y over time, irregardless of having surgery... One MUST modify his or her eating behavior, so that the weight can stay off... And that might take a Paxil-like drug in addition to all the other drugs because of surgery.
But don't get me started on weight loss management schemes only out there to make a buck... Remember Fen-phen...
And the folks that have type 2 diabetes... Their obesity issues, at least in the genetics department is a whole 'nother ball game... 'Cuz not only do they have to worry about weight gain, they also have to worry about heart attacks and/or strokes--then losing limbs due to gangrene and becoming insulin-resistant... I guess they are pretty much FUBARed by the time they get into intensive care...