@Thatwaslulu
I know that Tom Kerridge had bariatric surgery. So did I and he had the appointment after mine in the follow up clinic, we were both waiting ages in the waiting room as the consultant was running late. I get irrationally annoyed when I see him on telly these days because he lied about it. I understand that his medical history is his own business but he out and out lied in a lot of detail when asked about it, instead of saying he didn't want to discuss it.
More to the point, he's made a fuckton of money from a book punting out low carb and then a TV seriesplus another book punting out high carb/low fat (because the rules for TV don't allow anything else).
But I suppose nobody will buy a diet book that says 'Actually, you're going to feel uncomfortable at times, especially when you're likely to be eating to make yourself feel better about your shit life/abusive husband, and no, you can't just carry on eating All Your Favourite Foods just like before. By the way, your shit husband will probably attempt to sabotage you in a thousand different ways, accuse you of doing it to pick up men, suggest you have another baby (so you get bigger again) and the odds are that you will split up by the time you're 3/4 of the way to the right weight for your body, as he'll think that sabotaging you will mean that you remain grateful for his existence. And if not, you'll realise that he's the problem, not you and get shot of him. Either way, your odds for a happy future together aren't brilliant if he's the one who actually benefits from you remaining obese'.
Bariatric Surgery isn't an easy, permanently fixed solution - it's easy for people to stretch pouches, have all the things they are not supposed to like drinks full of sugar, drink chocolate shakes, find out what doesn't cause them to dump and have tons of that, concentrate upon slidey foods - same way when jaw wiring was thing, people would liquidise chocolate bars. It's shit to say that it is easy - and it's equally shit to deny it because you a) make more money that way and b) because you want to be seen as 'better' than somebody else who has had surgery.
Personally, I'm just recording what I have. 12-1350 kcals a day, 1700 on a particularly manic week. I'm still a fat bastard and I'll be stunned if when I finally have the six monthly 'you're a classic case of diabetes waiting to happen any second now, so only have cake and pies and chocolate biscuits once a week' appointment (I don't eat any of those and my blood results are, despite my obvious fat bastardness, absolutely normal, by the way), I've lost an ounce. But that's probably due to still hearing my mother's words in my head that ''the only way to lose weight is to starve yourself for years on end, and then you'll look disgusting, so you might as well not bother'.
If the Practice Nurse (who as you can tell, did put my back up in telling me I eat specific things I genuinely do not like) has the joy of saying she told me so and I am finally diabetic, I would quite happily take the medication that is associated with a decrease in appetite. Got to get your help wherever you can.