So I’m running late for my exercise class, and I meet a woman in the YMCA locker room. Seems it was her first day as a member, and she lost the key to her locker and was waiting, half-dressed, for someone to cut it off.
While I’m rushing to get dressed, and she’s waiting, she tells me she’s getting ready for bypass surgery. She’s already lost 30 lbs, and needs to lose 5 lbs more to have the surgery. I told her how I lost my weight, and we commisserated over the agony of loose skin after major weight loss.
I was already really late for my class, so I hurried off. And I didn’t ask this question, because, well, I had known her for all of 5 minutes and I didn’t want to be rude. But I was really impressed that she’d lost 30 lbs, and couldn’t help wondering if she was being relatively successful without the gastric bypass surgery, why was she going to do it? Why not just see where it would take her?
Believe me, I know how hard it is to lose weight, no matter what route you take. The misery that will make you do ANYTHING to lose. Most people who want or need to lose weight don’t take any route, or they do and they backslide. Shoot, here’s an article from the NYT talking about how people can’t lose weight even if you pay them to, or even if they need to pay you if they don’t.
So I wasn’t rude at the gym (I hope!) but I can be rude here in the privacy of my own blog, right? For those of you who had to lose weight in order to do gastric bypass, how did you do it? And why did you go ahead with the weight loss surgery when you were being successful? I would imagine it’s an issue of health?
