to say, well actually no you dont.

[OutOutLetItAllOut]

posted a while ago about a friend who was having a gastric band.
background, she was 17 stone. through lack of exercise and eating everything that sat still. she kept saying she didnt know why she was big, but it was not her fault. went to dr, who told her to try xyz, she didnt, went back, lied, said she had done all they asked of her. they eventually gave her a gastric band. she done nothing to loose the weight properly, until they said she had to be under 16 to be allowed the op.
well she has had it.
and now she is driving me mad.
she eats constantly.
all shit.
then moans.
im trying to loose weight, the 'normal' way. and she keeps telling me she knows how hard it is.
no love you dont.

I'm aware of some of the issues, Kewcumber.

I think that for people for whom all else has failed and it is the only, and I do mean only option, after counselling and after assessment of THEIR OWN COMMITMENT TO THE PROCEDURE, that it may indeed be a good use of funds. They go on to lead productive and useful lives and contribute? Excellent.

They continue to eat like there's no tomorrow and moan that they're still fat, after having used the colossal resources required of the NHS, in order to have the procedure? THAT IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!!!!

You make me sound like a massively judgemental and uncaring person Kewcumber, but if I had a choice of cancer drugs for kids or gastric bands for this fat waste of space of a woman......I know what I'd spend my money on.

End of.

Thumbdawitch.....am gloriously customised, now!

Thanks

Kewcumbe was responding to the lady wo told me to fuck off and then fuck off a little bit more when I said it was a waste of resource totally twisting my words to claim I said all fat people can fuck off.

"So the NHS doesn't treat anyone with sporting injuries, or smokers with bronchitis or lung cancer or people who sprained their ankles by being careless or people in car crashes when they were the one driving and caused the accident, or people who cut themselves whilst making the soup"

These are good points. Wrt smoking however I think they pay for it in tax.

However if you look at the figures huge sums are spent on obesity, not just gastric bypass but other obesity ailments.

I think priorities should go to people who don't have a choice -- the old, the disabled.

I am getting fatter as I stand here and type. Why? I know the answer. It's a choice. At some point I'll have to take a more difficult choice if I want to change that.