[pghwlssupport] Dr. Phil..... (fwd)

September 17, 2003

Crossposted with permission...

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Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:41 PM +0000

Subject: [pghwlssupport] Dr. Phil.....

I wanted to let you all know that I was offended and outraged when

watching Dr. Phil's show today and am encouraging anyone interested

to email him with your thoughts. Here's what happened: He had a

group of people on and the title of the program was Weight Loss

Challenge. He's going to follow them and coach them for 10 months on

a weight loss program. For the most part, the show was informative

and everything seemed ok until towards the very end when he told one

of the participants, " IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT, HAVE YOUR

STOMACH STAPLED. " I just completed an email (website is drphil.com)

telling him how sadly misinformed he is about weight loss surgery and

that I was surprised that someone of his stature would make a

statment like that. The statement just made me furious, because I

have seen and heard and read (through all these postings) what

everyone goes through on a daily basis. It isn't easy, it takes

work, and HELLO....you still have to follow a DIET!

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Apparently Dr. Phil is a big old fraud - there is some expose out there on

him - beat his first wife, has shady credentials, and some other stuff -

he's basically just a real good BS-er and snowed Oprah into getting him on

her show. Not sure if a letter-writing campaign will make a difference to

him in light of all that, but I plan on giving him a piece of my mind

anyway.

Sally

298 (BMI 49)/-139/159

Goal: 145-150ish

lap RNY 7/10/02

Dr. Quinlin/Pittsburgh

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