Finally Getting Fit

A while ago, I heard the word ‘liposuction’ and was surprised when I had an ‘oh, hell no’ reaction. Why was I surprised? Because I had no information whatsoever. I didn’t know how it worked, what the doctors did, or anything about the process, really…

And so I went on a quest for knowledge. I asked around at all my weight loss support groups, on my blogs, and even on my work forum

The number of responses has been fantastic. Thank you to everyone who voted and/or commented.

I was expecting the results somewhat, but I was quite surprised at the strength of the responses.

More people than not are saying that they would have weight loss surgery and 65% percent of the people who voted said a straight yes.

I grew up with the mentality that anything that wasn’t worked for with blood, sweat and tears isn’t something anyone deserves to have. Thus, for a long time, weight loss surgery seemed wrong to me.

Then I started meeting people who couldn’t lose weight. They faced their addictions, their psychological ties to food, ate right, exercised, and yet they couldn’t lose the weight. Were they to be condemned because their bodies didn’t work quite right?

I feel much better having a wider vision of what weight loss surgery is, how it works, and what life is like for people afterwards. I hope you feel the same.

If you haven’t voted, please do so and feel free to comment. The conversation is still going and you are definitely welcome to let me know your opinion at any time.

You hear about it all the time. From women getting boob jobs on their lunch breaks to the ‘extreme makeover‘ generation completely changing their looks through various procedures and surgeries.

Given how hard it is to lose weight, it’s no wonder a lot of people look to weight loss surgery as a quick and ‘easy’ solution to the whole weight loss thing.

I’ve been asking around on my other sites, and now I’d like to ask you – would you ever have weight loss surgery of any type?

I used to think my answer was a simple one: No.

However, as I keep working at losing weight and talk to other people, I find that I can’t say a simple ‘no’ anymore.

What if you find, due to some twist of fate or a medical condition, you simply can’t lose the weight? You eat right, exercise every day, all the things that should help you with a slow and steady weight loss…and one or two years later you’ve lost nothing.

Would that change you from the against side to the for side? Would you ‘keep on truckin’ with tradition or try weight loss surgery?

On the other side, there are, of course, who don’t try traditional diet and exercise and go straight for the knife.

What do you think? Where do you draw your line in the sand? What do you think about people who don’t have the same line as you?

Vote in the survey and leave your comments! I’m very interested to see what people have to say.