Most people who use this site have issues with food, and most have an addiction that only overweight people considering this op will understand. In a perfect world having this op will change not only our lives but our love/hate relationship with food. It would make things so much easier if the surgeon were to do something to our brains at the same time.
We all have idea pre op and early post op days that we will do everything we are told and never eat anything bad again, however we are not saints and as my very successful surgeon says the beauty of having a bypass is nothing is forbidden forever. You will after a 12-24 months return to eating normally and be like everyone else, that is why getting into good eating habits is essential in the honeymoon period.
This site never advoctae that anyone goes against their surgical teams advice. This would be so much easier if everyone up and down the country were given the same advice, even with some surgeon giving out different advice to different patients.
We have enough bullying, taunting and hate from people out there who talk to us like we are thick and lazy, we don't need to be doing it amongst ourselves. Today was the first time ever since joining this site in nearly 20 months that i have felt like not wanting to be a part of it as I ashamed of some of the behaviour that has gone on. If I'm feeling like that imagine what people looking at this site for the first time must feel. P
Please can we draw a line under this and move forward and get back tho being the supportive, friendly and happy forum it was at the beginning of the week?
Many thanks