Topic : Obesity

Thanks for the tips on those websites, I am going to look them up as soon as Survivor ends. 

I do feel somewhat alone as though some of my decisions may be wrong, like maybe I should take him off the meds but at the same time I am afraid that if I do he will suffer even more, he's labelled already at school because the doctors refused to listen to me when he was 3, so it is confusing.  However I will look up these sites a.s.a.p.   I am uncertain who that doctors is you mentioned I don't remember seeing him on the show, but if he is with Dr. Phil I am sure he is one of the best.  Thanks again ,  Nancy 

Is it the gastric bypass or lapband surgery? The lapband by the MD in Orlando is the only procedure that I know of that is, essentially, outpatient and is a matter of putting a removable/adjustable band around the stomach. It's had great results. It's $17,000 is cheap compared to the gastric bypass, which cuts the intestines and reroutes things, depending on the surgeon. 

Hi. A response that I've found myself saying when they don't even make a comment, they just believe they have the right to stare a me: ye olde "Take a picture, it lasts longer". 

I have been overweight all my life going from one diet to the next i did well for awhile and lost over 80lbs.  And then i got preagant with my son and quit smoking.  I went from 190 to over 300lbs.  I cant  belive that i have allowed my self to get this for.  I know that i need to get this weight off i cant do anything anymore it hard to keep up with my 18month old son.  Yet i keep putting it off and keep watching the scale go up and down.  I have thought about surgery but my family does not feel that i should do it.  I know that i need something to help i just cant get moved to get it off like before. 

I dont understand why my son should not be engh to want to lose the weight yet i cant seem to do it My dr has put me on phentermine hopeing that will give me the push that i need.   I am sure hopeing that it does because i can not affered to put on anymore weight. hopeing for the best. 

Help!!!! 

I am in need of some serious help!!!!   

I have just turned 43.  I have been both mom and dad to both my boys for over five years.  I say over five years because even when I was married, my ex-husband was not much of a father to them, only when he felt he needed to beat them, stab them with a fork, screw driver, or whatever he had in his hands. 

I am seriously over weight, I have always had a weight challenge all my life.  I need and want to change. 

My oldest son is 19 and weighs about the same as me, although I think he may be bigger now.  He now wears a size 52x30 mens pants.  He is so heavy, his legs looks like they are buckling inward.   

My youngest son is only 12 years old and weighs about 200 lbs, and has been recently diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver.  His doctor said that he most likely had steatoheptitis (a fatty liver) undetected, that developed into cirrhosis.  His doctor said that he needs to lose 105 lbs. and needs to start with losing 5 lbs a month non stop.  He also said that my son is looking at having type 2 diabetes with in a year or two. 

He and his brother were doing so well for the first few days, and now it is a hard battle for me to keep them up.  I need to help them by losing weight myself.  I need the support and I need some helpers to help me with this battle. 

Please, I am losing this battle with them, and I can't afford to. 

Losing my kids to obesity is too high of a price to pay. 

I am hoping to move out of Michigan and to California, by February of 2006.  I want to live where is does not get as cold of winters as it does here.  I need to live where the skies are mostly blue, instead of Grey full of snow clouds. 

I am hoping that Dr. Phil will help us.  I am begging Dr. Phil to help us.  I will do whatever he tells me to do.