I happened to see a photo of Carnie Wilson today and it hit me. It’s so obvious. The definitive response to shut down any idiot who insists that weight loss surgery is the “easy way out.”<\/p>\n
She failed.<\/strong><\/em> Carnie Wilson was a weight loss surgery failure. She gained a load of weight back and had to get a lap band over her already sliced n’ diced stomach. So if you can fail at weight loss surgery, that must mean you didn’t do what was necessary to be a success. And if there are things you have to do to avoid failure and be a success, you must have to work at it. Therefore weight loss surgery must not be this lazy, no effort, easy way out. Quod erat demonstrandum<\/em>.<\/em> Seems quite obvious to me.<\/p>\n Alright so the smart ass says to you, “Yeah well if they failed then they’re really lazy, they’re complete screw ups!”<\/p>\n “Ah-ha!” you respond. “If they failed because they’re really lazy, then to succeed, they must have had to work really hard at it. So it was never easy, there was always effort that had to be made to be successful!” At this point the idiot may begin to blather about degrees of laziness to which you should simply tell them to shut up and go get themselves a wheatgrass smoothie or something since they’re such a paragon of healthful living.<\/p>\n If something is an “easy way out,” well then it’s easy. As in, a sure thing. Can’t fail. But you can<\/em> fail with weight loss surgery. You can gain weight back. Even all of it if you really fail. OK let’s be honest here. A person could be lazy about WLS. Which would mean doing nothing. As in, eating nothing. That is possible for some people after surgery. Funny thing. Getting your stomach all cut up and stitched into some different configuration tends to kill your appetite. Imagine that. Sounds so easy, doesn’t it? Think a fat person should just stop eating? Well then chop their stomach up! EASY!<\/p>\n Hey and you know what else? Weight loss surgery can fail at any time. If a person has WLS and stops doing what they have to do to stay successful, they’ll fail. They can gain the weight back at any time. Years later. Forever! So it’s never an easy way out. There’s always some effort that has to be made.<\/p>\n How about if somebody tells you all the fat people are getting surgery now because it’s so easy? There are an estimated 200,000 weight loss surgeries being performed per year in the US. The CDC reports that about 6.3% of the US population is “super obese,” that would put them at a weight high enough to consider WLS. Those figures would mean that only about 1% of the people who might qualify for WLS are actually getting it, so haters, unwad your panties! Fat people aren’t going by the multitudes for the easy way out so they can keep stuffing their faces with cheeseburgers, are we clear on that?<\/p>\n Really, you don’t have to convince anyone of anything. Let’s all be WLS PRO-CHOICE<\/strong>. If you and your doctor determine it’s the right choice for you, then it’s your right to make that choice. Nobody else gets a say-so because they don’t live in your body.<\/p>\n You folks out in the field! Know someone who’s got that “easy way out” opinion? Give them the “yeah but people can fail if they don’t work at it” response. Let me know how it works out. You can claim you thought of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I happened to see a photo of Carnie Wilson today and it hit me. It’s so obvious. The definitive response to shut down any idiot who insists that weight loss surgery is the “easy way out.” She failed. Carnie Wilson was a weight loss surgery failure. She gained a load of weight back and had … <\/p>\n