Topic : 06/15 Biggest Reunions Ever

I don't understand these people, why do they think having gastric bypass surgery or the lap band surgery will help them any?  To get these surgeries you have to change your eating, you have to exercise, if they can't do it on their own now the surgery won't help them.  I know first hand because I have had the lap band surgery done.  I was not 100 lbs over weight when I had it done which normally you have to be, I had it done to help my diabetes.  I was not a fat child, actually very thin, I gained weight after having 10 back surgeries, the most I ever weight was 240 but never stayed at that weight for long, but did stay around 190-200 for some time, but I never ever used excuses for myself being overweight or blamed other people.  Probably one of my biggest problems was that I didn't like being kept down and laying around and I didn't give my back time to heal like I should of, I was very stubborn and wanted to get out of the house and go back to school and work, maybe if I had listened to my doctor I wouldn't of needed so many surgeries.

It just blows me away when these people say they can't afford the fruit and vegetables they like but they can afford fast food, pasta, pizza, cheese, etc.  Just excuses and they have no one to blame but themselves.  The one lady just uses her daughter as a slave, I feel so sorry for her but I do not feel sorry people who let themselves get this way and I am sorry I don't care what all the experts say about it being an addiction, it is laziness more than anything.  These people are fooling themselves if they think surgery will help them, they have to work on controlling their eating and changing their eating before any surgery will help them.  I know someone who had gastric bypass and she wouldn't give up soda's and she gained back all the weight she had lost and probably weighs more than she did before she had the surgery.  I had my lap band done in October and I haven't had one single soda since then, I was never one that really ate a bunch of junk food and I hardly ever eat fast food, but I did like my soda's but I didn't go through the surgery for nothing, but I just don't think these people have the will power to loose on their own so the surgery won't do them any good.  Just my opinion, and I hate to be mean and say this but I just don't feel sorry for people who let themselves get this big, there is no excuse for it, but laziness.

The 500 pound woman infuriated me.  How can ANYONE treat their child like that?  I can not imagine how this teenager felt.  Torn between wanting to be a kid and the obligation of helping her lazy, apathetic mother urinate in a bucket.  Disgusting.  As a mother who has battled with her own eating disorders, etc.  My *child* was enough for me to want to better myself.  This woman treats her child like a slave.  It was truly disgusting.  I hate to say it but this woman is the kind of person who will NOT change unless she is left with no one, hitting rock bottom.  She uses her child to be even more unhealthy and her child doesn't even realize it.  This child needs to be taken from the mother and the mother put in assisted living until she can get her life togehter and realize that her child is not some 2nd class citizen.

As for Bob.  I absolutley loved him!  He seems like an awesome man who truly wants to change his life and better himself in any way he can.  I wish him the best and I know he can do it!  Good luck!!!! 

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Ash

i feel exactly like you do. i am truly disgusted by her. she needs to get off her lazy a@! and do something. there is nothing medically wrong with her she is just LAZY. she reminds me of one of the large people at the supermarkets or the zoo who use power chairs. you have to move your body or you will never improve your weight or your health.