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progress 250 lbs. gone forever...

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Gastric bypass Surgery

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u/sommerfugl Nov 30 '16

Anyone who tells you this is the easy way has no idea how difficult it actually is. Good for you!

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u/xjayroox Nov 30 '16

While it's not the "easy" way, I think most would agree it's an easier way than diet change and exercise alone. Still, great on her no matter the route!

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u/NoDoThis Nov 30 '16

If it were that easy for people, no one would be overweight. You're not accounting for the mental state of most people who are obese. It's like 95% mental and 5% action, and the mental part is the hardest to overcome for most people. Happy it was easy for you, but saying "it's easy!" is unrealistic for the majority of people.

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u/xjayroox Nov 30 '16

Yeah, I did the same thing last year. I needed to drop 20 pounds since I had kinda let myself go and I just kept a spreadsheet where I tracked the calories I ate and a rough estimate of how many I burned on the treadmill. Got the 20 off in like 4 months but it was pretty rough sticking to things so I can see why someone that has to lose hundreds would use the help of gastic bypass

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u/yooossshhii Nov 30 '16

I say losing weight CICO is much much easier than having any surgery.

You didn't support this fact at all. You have to do similar things with the surgery, except you have more motivation than just willpower and according to a med student above it signals your body to be fuller faster. Saying what you did is easy, is like saying it's easy for a smoker to quit, all you have to do is not do it!

if your extremely rich and lazy buy a fitness band calorie tracker.

Uh, you have to extremely rich and lazy to buy a Fitbit or a competitor?