To think excess skin removal should be available on the NHS?

[TheGoodEnoughWife]

I know being fat is seen as being self inflicted although I don't agree that it is and that people over eating should be taken as seriously as people under eating. But that isn't necessarily my point here..,

I am very overweight (about 6st overweight but am tall) and one of the things in the back of my mind is that if I lose weight my saggy skin will be awful. The reality is my 'strain' on the NHS being overweight has the potential to be great - surely encouragement to lose weight would cost the NHS less in the long run?
It would be helpful maybe to me and others who need to lose a lot of weight to know that treatment for excess skin would be available to them?

Now I may get flamed about self inflicted and so on but if I drive a car badly and crash I would be treated on the NHS, if I drink like a fish and cause myself illness I would be treated on the NHS, if I go about extreme sports and hurt myself I also would get treated on the NHS.
(I don't do any of those things!)

Any one see where I am coming from?

Some fat people binge. A friend is like this. She eats a normal amount of food, then every few days has a massive binge. That is an eating disorder, but there is no help for it.

Yes I do feel like that Heyday.

But, and trying to give real honesty here, I feel out of control, I feel deprived if I don't have access to food (a throw back to times in the past where I have been really hungry) and a bit like I am hiding behind a layer of fat. I can tell myself I will do things when I am thin or be happy/successful/liked if I was thin but I don't have to test that theory as I never actually get there.

Pretty screwed up really!

I know why you feel that way honestly I do, I used to be fat and thought my life would get radically better when I got to be slim and size 10. Do you know the truth? It didn't. I actually couldn't stop thinking I was fat even though I was size 10.

My advice is to do the best you can and don't put your life on hold waiting for that day that you are slim. I really wish you the best

SallyVating have you thought of going to the press.