[stuartj]

Seems a good thread to post this.

A few weeks back, a long time friend of my wife had stomach sleeve surgery which reduced her stomach size to, apparently, a ¼ of cup. She weighed 142kg (312pds). We have watched over the last 10 years as her weight ballooned. Interestingly, she is a vegetarian. Her vices seem to be carbs. Fried food, pasta, bread soft drinks and sweets.

This woman, obviously, has a dysfunctional relationship with food, and now needs to develop another dysfunctional relationship with food which will allow her only 500 calories per day. She was explaining this to me over breakfast a few weeks back, that 500m cals is how she will lose weight, and I wanted to say...."why dont you not have the invasive, dangerous (everything is dangerous when you're obese) expensive surgery, and just do the 500 cals per day, you dosey mare?" but my wife had put me on notice.....

We are stopping people from killing themselves from over eating by surgically removing most of their stomachs. Its radical surgery and creates digestive and 'system' issues for the rest of the persons life. All because someone cant stop eating donuts. This is a quintessential first world problem.