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10-22-2009, 03:26 PM
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#1 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,212
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
 |  Seeking the "easy way" ...
What’s the “easy way” to lose weight and get healthy? Well, since many of our co-workers, friends or families are such experts, I thought I’d do a bit (a very little bit) of research on-line to see if WLS really is the “easy way”. Quotes 1 through 6 are copied word for word from popular websites. Only the fonts have been altered.
Go down this list and see if you can figure out which way to lose weight is NOT the easiest!
1) “Since we first introduced The Negative Calorie Diet™ back in 1997, literally hundreds of thousands of satisfied weight loss customers continue to lose millions of unwanted pounds every day simply by following the program…”
2) “"The New Cabbage Soup Diet" (St. Martin's Paperback, 1997) claims to "help change your life forever," by showing you how to rapidly lose weight, while keeping you full and satisfied. It promises a weight loss of up to ten pounds or more if you follow the seven-day diet plan.”
3) “The Cave Man Diet - suggests eating more unprocessed foods, increase protein, reduce bad fats, increase good fats and take supplements to compensate for the depleted soils our food is grown in.”
4) “G.I. Diet:, At last a diet that is a practical, simple, healthy, long-term approach to dieting and weight management.”
5) “Lose up to 10 pounds in 48 hours! Success is only 48 hours away. Lose weight naturally, while you detox, cleanse and rejuvenate your body. An ideal jumpstart to any diet.”
6) “Welcome To Hollywood Diet
Lose Weight! Cleanse! Detoxify! Rejuvenate!
The 1st and Original 24 & 48 Hour Hollywood Miracle Diet
Lose up to 10 pounds in 2 days or up to 5 pounds in 1 day
(Results May Vary).”
OR …
7) Pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to reach inside you, cut your stomach off, cut your bowels off, then re-attach everything in a way that nature never intended. Spend months learning how to eat again. Spend the rest of your life eating abnormally small amounts of different foods than your co-workers, friends and families eat. Smile politely and put up with remarks such as “You need to put some of that weight back on”, “You’re cheating doing it that way”, “You’ll never be able to eat ‘real’ food again” and “When can you start eating normally again?”
Anybody choose #7 as the easiest? I didn't either. I chose #7 for myself and my wife because it works!!
CT
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Dare to live your dream!!
If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant
"Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda
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10-22-2009, 04:44 PM
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#2 (permalink)
| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mississippi
Posts: 4,904
Weight Statistics 3/18/2008 (dieted all my life) Start Date:
9/30/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
292 lb Start Weight:
192 lb Current Weight:
189 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
3 lb Lb Left to Lose:
34.2465753425 % % Lost:
2 years Goal Date:
Body Mass Index44.3935986159 BMI Start:
29.1903114187 BMI Current:
28.7342128028 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Nope that does not sound like it is easy but One thing for sure unlike those others this one will work if you follow the plan. It is not for everyone but if you are brave enough to go for it... hang on for your life to change.... for the good.
__________________   Love to Share , Health to Spare, and Friends that Care!
23 pounds lost before surgery.
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10-22-2009, 05:02 PM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Cub Reporter
Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Lansing, Michigan
Posts: 79
Weight Statistics April 2009 Start Date:
August 3, 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
255 lb Start Weight:
175 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
80 lb Weight Loss:
25 lb Lb Left to Lose:
31.3725490196 % % Lost:
June 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index43.7658691406 BMI Start:
30.0354003906 BMI Current:
25.7446289062 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Amen CT!!!
__________________ Started my WLS program in April 2009, I lost seventeen pounds prior to surgery.   | |
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10-22-2009, 05:02 PM
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#4 (permalink)
| | Big Loser
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Wichita Falls,Texas
Posts: 115
Weight Statistics April 1,2008 Start Date:
July 14,2008 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
316 lb Start Weight:
161 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
155 lb Weight Loss:
-14 lb Lb Left to Lose:
49.0506329114 % % Lost:
July 2009 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index52.579408284 BMI Start:
26.7888757396 BMI Current:
29.1183431953 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I didn't find #7 the easiest. I chose #7 and i'm still working hard on mine. I'm like CT it works for me and my daughter.
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Wichita falls,Texas
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10-22-2009, 07:56 PM
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#5 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, Okla USA
Posts: 2,549
Weight Statistics 05/17/02 Start Date:
05/17/02 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
355 lb Start Weight:
190 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
165 lb Weight Loss:
15 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.4788732394 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index59.0686390533 BMI Start:
31.6142011834 BMI Current:
29.1183431953 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Yeah...it just cracks me up when people talk about it taking the 'cheaters way" or "you chose the easy way out" etcs..!!!
Shoot..how many of us dieted to the size we were pre op!!! I know I did!
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(lowest body weight/size) --BREE
- Strength in body is fleeting, but MY strength is from the LORD whose strength never weakens...
--------------------- open RNY 5/17/2002 -166 lbs(-200 at lowest) 8 years post in May 2010
Open major abdominal surgery 4/6/2010 for internal hernia release, extensive scarring removal & Appendix removal
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10-22-2009, 08:26 PM
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#6 (permalink)
| | WLS Guru
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Troy,NY
Posts: 424
Weight Statistics forever Start Date:
August 5th 2009 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
319 lb Start Weight:
216 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
103 lb Weight Loss:
66 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.2884012539 % % Lost:
sometime in 2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index51.4823232323 BMI Start:
34.8595041322 BMI Current:
24.2079889807 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Right there with ya brother!
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10-22-2009, 08:29 PM
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#7 (permalink)
| | Guru In Training
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Swedesboro, New Jersey
Posts: 288
Weight Statistics oct 21,2008 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
278 lb Start Weight:
159 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
119 lb Weight Loss:
9 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.8057553957 % % Lost:
2010 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index47.7133789062 BMI Start:
27.2893066406 BMI Current:
25.7446289062 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodAitkens
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i agree with you guys give me number 7
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10-22-2009, 09:34 PM
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#8 (permalink)
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Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,212
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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If you have to deal with any of those ignoramuses who insist that we're doing something underhanded with WLS, print this out and make 'em read it before you take the conversation anywhere with them. We did this to take charge of our lives, let's take charge of the conversation. If we let them define the discussion, we're on defense all the way uphill!!
And will someone explain to me why on earth it would be cheating to do it the "easy way" if we could find one that worked?? Where did that idiotic idea come from??? Don't all those other ways promise that they are "easy"? Why aren't they bad??
I guess I'll never understand this one!! 
CT
__________________ da perfesser
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Dare to live your dream!!
If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant
"Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda
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10-22-2009, 10:10 PM
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#9 (permalink)
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Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Floyd County Virginia
Posts: 9,219
Weight Statistics September 19th 2007 Start Date:
September 19th 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
363 lb Start Weight:
170 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
193 lb Weight Loss:
53.1680440771 % % Lost:
12/31/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index52.0793877551 BMI Start:
24.3897959184 BMI Current:
24.3897959184 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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I need to print this out CT. You hit the nail on the head.
__________________ Remember Tough times never last Tough people do... This Ribbon is for our Lady Lisa and all the women that fight this ugly disease. RIP Jerry my friend
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10-23-2009, 01:38 AM
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#10 (permalink)
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Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tokyo, Japan
Posts: 23,801
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At the least, you got your money's worth with #7, I bet the only things that get slimmer and trimmer with the others are your wallet and bank account   | 
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