What You Don't Know About Fat

Hmmm, interesting. I wonder if I would have benefitted from "leptin" therapy.
I used to be obese (5'4" 240 lbs.) I had gastric by-pass surgery 6 years ago and am now 130 lbs. The medical ramifications of obesity are far reaching. I had high blood pressure (now gone), painful heel-spurs which I barely notice these day's and other associated problems.
The majority of people that have this procedure are around 400-500 lbs. Or at least that's what I noticed at the facility I had my procedure done. I'll gladly answer any questions for someone who is considering having this done.

Oh, I forgot to answer the question "what do you know about fat"

It S#CKS! :-)

I know more about fat you eat rather than fat you wear.

MMM bbq'd steak fat!!!!

littlek said:

"I know more about fat you eat rather than fat you wear"

Interesting way of putting it, littlek. I never thought of fat as something you wear, but in a way we do wear it. We certainly lug it around.

Every time I carry a 14 lb box of kitty litter up a flight of stairs, I realize how much of a burden an extra 14 lbs of fat adds to my body.

Fire

I think that also when I carry a bag of potatos up a flight of stairs.
Can you imagine what it's like for someone who's 200 lbs. over their normal weight, taxing on the body.

It must be brutal, paulaj. Congratulations on your own enormous weight loss. I would imagine that it changed your life dramatically.
Would you advise others who are very obese to have gastric-bypass surgery? Have you found any adverse long term effects of the surgery?

Thank you fire. Alot of medical stuff just dissipates. For instance I was quite top heavy and it's the first thing people notice when they see you and you get comments and nick-names you don't need. That type of shape makes sleeping difficult.
There is a huge negative stigma towards fat woman in America. People treat a fat person differently, it's sad.
Plus I tend to lean towards being shy, and feeling unattractive just made it worse.
Even at 240 lbs. I was proably one of the thinnest people that had this procedure. I would advise people not to wait until their 3 to 4 hundred lbs. to have this. If I was a few lbs. lighter I would not have qualified to have my insurance pay for this.
I have not had any long term side effects. But I have read about people who burst their staples because they ate to much at one sitting. If I eat to fast I sometimes get a stomach ache but that's about it.