Very Upset Right Now

[funinthesun00 157]

I think only 5% if people that lose weight through diet and exercise keep it off. The remaining 95% regain the weight. That is the reality. I wish more people in the fitness industry would get their heads out of the clouds and realize this.

[sramos89 260]

After a lifetime of struggling with my weight and hating myself as a result of that failure. The sleeve has given me my first opportunity of freedom. I was telling a friend tonight I feel free of the control food has over me. With every other diet I would go to bed so hungry and miserable thinking and missing food. I am not hungry now, I am not a slave to that and I felt like a weak, unlovable, uncontrollable, awful person. I am gaining my self respect back. Your co-worker may know about exercise but she does not know about losing weight because if she did she would understand how much deeper this issue is and never have said what she did to you. I thank God for this surgery.

[Catracks 865]

I would have told her about the surgery just because I feel that she is ignorant. We are statistically MUCH more successful and who in the heck has money to pay a trainer for the rest of our lives?

For me, it's not the exercise - it's how I eat. The exercise keeps me fit, but it really has a tiny affect on my weight. If it were mostly exercise, I would not have lost the weight. I need the restriction period.