I’m currently watching a show on DSTV (satellite television) which is called “The Fat Doctor.”
The show is about a physician which do gastric bypass surgeries on Morbidly obese people, to give them a second chance at life.
The show is interesting to watch. If you ever were obese, you will understand where these people come from, many confessing how they are addicted to food, how food are ruling their lives and how they can’t stop obsessing over food.
Many people have their own opinion regarding people who do take this route to weight loss and I had too but after watching this show, hearing these people’s cries to how they want to stop but can’t, make me sympathize a bit better now towards people who choose this route to weight loss.
I too was there where they were. I too was addicted to food. I too could not stop thinking and obsessing over food.
The one woman said: She just want to zip all of the fat open and step out of it. I too felt like this.
For many, diets don’t work. For others, like me, it does. I’m not here to judge these people, choosing a route which many people have so much to say about. At least they are searching for a way out of it and if it is surgery, then so be it.
People who have a weight problem, have a problem with food. They are food addicts just like addicts of alcohol and drugs. Obese people can either lose the weight by themselves or they need help to do it, like these people who opt for gastric bypass surgery. Other addicts (alcoholics/drugs) do it by themselves and others need help by going to a rehab. Bypass surgery are like a rehab for these people.
Watch the show – it’s really an eye opener regarding gastric bypass surgeries and how food can be a burden.
My heart goes out to these folks who, unlike drug addicts, wear their addiction on the outside and are often on the receiving end of prejudice and discrimination.
Very nice presentation of a difficult problem. Surgery is not an easy answer, but it is a better option for those who have serious medical problems or will have them if they are unable to solve it any other way.
I’m glad you did not need to go that route.
I can empathise with people who decide to have the operation! My mum was morbidly obese and had countless health and mental issues as a result. She had the operation and it did give her some hope and a better quality of life. Sadly weight problems continued to be with her until she died at the far too young age of 53!