It is certainly NOT an easy option. It is only done as a last resort and affects a persons eating habits for the rest of their lives. One of the advantages is that it can cure diabetes, both types 2 and sometimes type 1.
You mention lack of self-discipline etc. The problem is junk food is addictive. McDs even put sugar in their buns for the burgers. Sugar is addictive. Morbidly obese people aren't stupid. Just because they have an addiction to extra calories, they are not stupid or ignorant etc. The fat doesn't affect their brains and they know full well they are slowly setting themselves up for problems, yet they cannot stop their addiction. Surgery is the answer, but so is, I think, psychological counselling, and tuition in how to shop and cook. Look at the junk people put in their baskets in shops such as Netto. Junk is cheap. A pack of biscuits for 20p. Cut those people some slack, as there is more to it than sheer gluttony.
I suppose a person weighing 25 stone can also suddenly have a heart attack too. Also other problems related to weight as well. A bypass often cures diabetes as well.
I love ironing - love it, love it, love it. The secret is to get a steam generator iron. It is fantastic, and makes ironing so easy. In fact I can't wait to use it, in above half an hour after I have changed the cats' litter trays - now that is a job I hate.
Seriously, a steam generator iron is fantastic, fast, efficient and iron stuff when they are hanging up too. It irons fabrics you would never normally let an iron near to as well.
As a child we had breakfast, dinner was at lunchtime and supper was in the evening. That was in London. How's that for confusing?
My first husband (I have been married and divorced twice, I love wedding cakes), came from Stoke on Trent, a couple of hundred miles or so from London. His family called them brakfast, lunch and tea was the evening meal. Supper was a 10pm snack.
Very confusing.
The UK is small, but every 20 or so miles the accent changes and although the UK could fit into the size of Texas I think, it is extremely diverse in culture, traditions, behaviour. There is a lot of snobbery about accents too.
50 - lol, well I don't get that many! Personally I think it is rude, and I would always be grateful for any flowers, chocolates, diamonds, furs, holidays in the Caymans etc
I just saw on television this morning that she has been invited to appear on Orprah Winfrey's show in the US due to a lot of interest over there in her. Simon Cowell has stated that if she does go on that show, her album sales will probably do extremely well. I think it is brilliant for her.
Even if she does not win, she will still most definitely get some work out of this. The moment she sang the first note I appreciated she had talent. She is not a 'power' singer, nor operatic, but has a lovely strong deep voice.
I am going to see Faryl Smith tomorrow evening, who was one of the finalists of last year's Britain's Got Talent. She is appearing in the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow with various other classical music acts.
Wasn't that woman amazing - what a shock! Have a look at the link below to find out more and her act starts immediately after the freesat advert. I wish I had a voice even half as good as that.
Younger men than me seem to have a more active outlook, and older men attract me if they have kept their young outlook on life and haven't let their looks go.
It depends what people mean when they say "big." A person who is, say, 30lbs overweight may consider themselves as big, and someone 200lbs overweight may too.
A potential partner may not just consider the aesthetical aspect, but what is also more important are the physical aspects. The scale range of obese to the upper end of super super morbidly obese is wide. There are health problems to consider. For instance obesity can, but obviously not always, can lead to uncontrolled diabetes, cancer, liver damage etc. A person may love someone but has to consider that their partner may not be healthy now or in the years to come. Super obesity makes practical things difficult too. For just a few examples restaurant chairs in some places may break under the strain, theatre seats don't allow much room for normal sized people let alone obese people, public transport seating may not be wide enough, leaving the person sitting next to the obese person sitting with one buttock on the seat and one buttock hanging in mid air.
Severe obesity is sometimes a psychological illness. Junk food and convenience food is addictive.
I used to post on another site, but have stopped going on there because I got really fed up trying to justify my views to people who love to dwell on the negative. I have learnt now to play safe on forums because there are some people who are so bigotted and so set in their ways, that they simply cannot see the other person's point of view - but not just that - they riddicule and make the other poster seem small. It is simply not worth it. I don't want to get upset on forums as it is not my idea of fun.
I was born in London and have always lived here, but I have come to the conclusion that the British are natural wingers. One example is I have a grocery delivery from the same online supermarket on a regular basis and have been having deliveries from them for several years now. I never get the same delivery driver more than once. The ones that complain about carrying the amount I buy up the stairs from the entrance to my block to my flat on the 3rd floor are always the English ones. Other drivers have been several different nationalities, but it is just the British delivery men who moan and say I have bought too much. Other delivery men always deliver with a smile and a greeting. So, do you agree - do the British revel in being miserable???
If she had been drinking then I would guess it is just false bravado and the drink talking. Alcohol loosens the tongue and she may not have been so rude if sober.
I also am allergic to local anaesthetic at the dentist consisting of adrenaline. When I had the injection I started uncontrolebly shaking and my heart started racing. It was very alarming. I need to make sure any future dental work does not contain adrenaline in the local anaesthetic.
I like to chat to younger men because, on the whole, they have an upbeat outlook on life although, of course, I am generalising. However, if it came to a relationship, I would pass, because a younger man should have the opportunity to father children. In other words, I would not get seriously involved and would stop the friendship before it became a relationship.
It's like waiting for a bus. Nothing for an hour then two come along at once. Life is like that - boredom and tedium then life's so busy and fantastic it's overwhelming.
The only thing I am allergic to are those lip balms that are supposed to heal the lips when they are sore and dry. If I use them my lips swell up. And the person who has spots on her arms and neck - do they resemble goosebumps and if so could you have 'keratosis pilaris.' It is very common.
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RE: Gastric bypass
It is certainly NOT an easy option. It is only done as a last resort and affects a persons eating habits for the rest of their lives. One of the advantages is that it can cure diabetes, both types 2 and sometimes type 1.