2007-06-12
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I'm really pissed off right now. Super pissed off. The kind of pissed off that leaves you foaming at the mouth and steam coming out your ears.
I don't know how much I've mentioned it in the past, but I have a friend who swears she can't lose weight because everything fails for her. WW failed (yes, when you don't follow the plan & quit, it tends not to work well.) The gym didn't work (yes, when you go, oh 4 times in a fucking year, results DO vary!) Even the 6 mth. supervised diet with the nutritionist didn't work because she gained it all back in a few weeks (yes, because she went back to her old eating habits plus some!)
So she had a band put around her stomach last week. She had this done knowing (and verbalizing) that she plans to cheat and this is more for when she WANTS to lose weight. It's never been her own fault that she's not lost and kept off weight. It's always the plan that fails. You know, because WW doesn't allow for a double quarter pound burger in their big picture of things.
Now I really do hope she uses this tool the right way and becomes smaller and healthier. That being said I know that even this will not do it for the long term for her. This is someone who was thrilled with one diet pill she tried because she could only eat half a big mac...
Even worse, she works as a nurse on the floor that does these surgeries. She's not an idiot, she's just really in another world about this all.
She just texted me because her sister is now looking into having it done. Why? Because she doesn't want to be the fat one in the family. She needs to gain 20-30 lbs. though to qualify ... hopefully she won't be doing that.
I'm really angry because she is acting like this is the easy thing to do. She still seems to think this is going to be smooth sailing all the way through the rest of her life. Her mom had the old stapling done in the 80s. Now she has had this done. Next I guess is my goddaughter who is 10 and weighs almost 170 lbs.
I just want to scream.
Which I will do on my drive to the gym.