Late Night Television... > Long

November 13, 2006

I was lying in bed last night unable to sleep, it really wasn't that

late, but I had dozed off and then woke up for some reason. I

flicked between the channels and ended up seeing the end of some

silly plastic surgery show on Lifestyle Health, and that show was

followed by one called " the 635 pound woman " . What a story!!!!

Her name was Jackie and she lived in south usa. She had a wonderful

girl who was per home nurse and this young girl kept her mobile and

moving, to a certain extent. This girl also was a huge help in

getting her to a doctor in Virginia who was prepared to do bypass

surgery on her. It was an ordeal and half. The surgeon was

fantastic and I am going to try and do some research and find out if

he has written any papers because the words he used to describe an

over eater applied to us all.

Anyway, after months of recovery and all sorts of monumental

problems including malnutritian in a 200kg woman, which needed tube

feeding, wound problems and still problems with immobility, she was

eventually able to get home. She was a darling and I hope that she

will succeed.

This doctors comments amazed me. He called us over eaters who

definately have to have a " fix " . We are addicted and no amount of

councilling or dietary advice is going to help us over eaters. It

is not like alcoholism where we can stop... he said, ask an

alcoholic to have just three drinks a day - most alcoholics can't.

But, foodies need nourishment and we have to put food in our mouths

to live. He actually would like to meet a head doctor or dietitian

that can make us change our ways. He said that we need wls to give

us hope and to prove to ourselves that we can loose. Most over

eaters are always going to be over eaters, and even if we cut what

we put in our mouths in half, our bodies are not going to believe

it, and basically it will not accept that, therefore we will not

loose. We need to actually get up and move, and move a lot to start

the system working again, and the problem with super obesity is that

those very large people cannot move, hence the wls sometimes taking

a long time to kick in.

I figured the moral to this story is - move, move, move... even if

we don't feel like it, even if it is to the letter box and back 3

times a day - move!

Mel

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