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Mar 7 00:04 UTC 2006

Bariatric surgery is not a decision for everyone - and just to be clear - you
can put weight back on after having it (says she how has put back about 20
lbs.).  

The risks never scared me that much.  I figured I had just as much a chance
being hit by a car on M Street than I did from dying of that surgery.  It's
part of the reason why I had so much pre-surgical testing - to see what might
be a problem.  That being said, it's not for everyone.

I have a million thoughts on the morality associate with fatness.  I think
that I wouldn't tolerate someone saying something in front of me eating a an
ice cream cone - but then, I'm a bitch on wheels sometimes - I might start
my list of comebacks with "Wit me, fat can be cured - with you, stupidity can
not".  

Do I think yo-yoing is good?  Of course not.  Nor does any doctor.  And I can
anecdotally back up Lynne's statement about doctors favoring weight over
cigarettes - my mom was told by her doctor that he didn't care if she put on
a little weight if she wasn't smoking.  I think I sat up and really noticed
what my doctor was saying when he told me that I had hypertension, heart
disease, diabetes and arthritis in my family - the  extra weight would not
help me, it could only hinder me.