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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.
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