We have all heard it before: diet and exercise are the best way to control weight. Unfortunately many of us have genetic components which interfere with our ability to control our weight. If given a choice between fat and thin – who would choose to be fat? We all eat for a variety of reasons – some are hunger, and others are emotional. Weight loss surgery is still the best way to address weight issue in those of us that deal with chronic hunger on a daily basis. Most of us are able for a time to ignore and work through the hunger, but the end result is we feel deprived and irritable that we simply can’t fill what feels like a basic need (unrelenting hunger).
When I am fat, living in my body is similar to living in a house that is on fire, my blood sugars are high, my blood pressure uncontrollable, and my joints hurt making exercise difficult. If your house is burning down, it is sinful or "taking the easy way out" to jump out the window? I think if it saves our life, it is the only sane way out. The same thinking applies to weight loss surgery – if it saves my life and improves the quality of my life, why should I remain miserable and suffer with weight?
Do we ask people with hearing loss to not wear their hearing aids because if they try harder maybe they can hear? Do we ask people to not wear their glasses, to squint and work harder to see? Well I was born hungry. I don’t think it is reasonable to ask me to suffer with chronic hunger to make me a better person; it only makes me irritable and difficult. Why should I spend my life battling something I can’t win when weight loss surgery presents a viable solution that will enable me to live a normal life?
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