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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should post on Reddit progress pics thread and give others inspiration.[/quote]

I don’t think getting your stomach surgically shrunk down so that you are forced into malnutrition state and drop 100 lbs in a year should be “goals”

That state of malnutrition and quick weight loss results in sagging skin, bone density loss, and and muscle wasting.

Slow and steady weight loss naturally is the best way to go

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You don’t know what you’re talking about. The data has shown over and over that without surgical intervention, big weight loss is not sustainable long term without bariatric surgery. It’s the best chance that very overweight people have at being thin if that is their goal. [/quote]

Going from very fat to very thin in a short amount of time has negative health effects too- they just show up later.  [/quote]
Sweet jesus, [i]stop talking[/i]. You don’t know anything about obesity or bariatric surgery. Currently, bariatric surgery is the one and only gold standard for treatment of obesity. That’s a fact. When it is successful and people are following the post-surgery diet, the weight pours off. In fact the weight that one loses in the first year after weight loss surgery is the majority of what they’ll lose. It’s [i]supposed[/i] to pour off. That’s the point of the surgery. [/quote]

It pours off because you physically can’t stuff yourself.  Duh.  But please don’t think cutting your stomach in half and surgically alternating your digestion doesn’t have its own set of negative health consequences.  Anyone that is able to lose weight through their own will and lifestyle changes should absolutely do that.  [/quote]
I’m the PP to whom you’re replying and seriously, you’re ignorant about this. No one is claiming that bariatric surgery doesn’t have lifelong consequences, but, you know, that whole “solving obesity” thing is chief among them. And if you knew [i]anything[/i] about bariatric surgery, you’d know that it does involve will power and lifestyle changes. They won’t [i]give[/i] you the surgery unless you can adhere to the diet and lose a certain amount of weight prior to the surgery.

And finally, did you know that in a certain percentage of bariatric patients, their diabetes goes into remission immediately after the surgery? It has nothing to do with “not physically stuffing” yourself, it has everything to do with the fact that diabetes, obesity and endocrinology are complex issues not reducible to “EaT lEsS, mOvE mOrE! CaLoRiEs In, CaLoRiEs OuT!”[/quote]

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