Amazing triumph in weight loss
There’s a woman in the state of Victoria in Australia who’s in my gastric banding group on Yahoo!. She was featured on a tabloid news show in Australia last night because she’s lost 160kilograms. That’s more than 350 pounds LOST with the aid of a gastric band. Note that I said aid of a gastric band and not because of it.
Everyone who has a band, including Kat, will tell you that the band helps but it doesn’t do all the work. We still have to watch what we eat, even though we’re eating less. If we fill up on cake we’re going to get sick.
When she was first banded she weighed 239 kilos (over 500 pounds) and rarely went outside the house. When she turned 30 she decided that she needed to do something to get back into life. Since being banded she’s started walking and now has a job – something she only dreamed about when she was morbidly obese.
Next month she’s going to have surgery to trim all the excess skin off and doctors tell her that she’ll go from a size 12 to a size 10 just by removing the skin. How cool is that?
I’m overwhelmed by the courage it must have taken to make that first step. She’s an inspiration to me. If she can keep on keeping on to lose more than 350 pounds, surely I can lose 30 more.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:55 am
What a great story. Yeah I agree with you, we should watch our eating habit. No matter how many hours you exercise, but if you don’t change you eat..well, losing weight does not work.
Good luck to all of us, I am still trying to lose weight. I need more inspiration to keep me going.
By the way, I am your regular EC dropper in my other blog.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:52 am
A wonderful real live story filled with courage. It’s so easy to sit back and just let things be as they are – even though we know deep inside that the situation can’t go on due to health risks and worse. I was really moved by this lady’s determination to get her life back – heaven knows she will be an enormous inspiration for many in similar situations. That is one cool lady.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
This is a great post. Thank you for pointing out that any weight loss surgery is not an “easy way” out. Even with a gastric bypass surgery, like I had, it is possible to limit any success, or even reverse good results, if you don’t learn to look at food in a different way. While weight loss surgery helps to limit the amount of food consumed at one time, that can be defeated by eating more often.
Again, great post, and thanks for the information.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Wow, what a difference! And the fact that she is now able to work is just wonderful.
I wish her and you the absolute best!
Yes, you do have to eat right still….the surgery is not enough all on its own, it’s said. That’s a great result!
July 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Great story — amazing courage and dedication to go through and definitely an inspiration.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:41 am
This post is a perfect example of Master Yoda of Star Wars ” Do, there is no try.” “What the mind can conceive the body can achieve.”
Exercise can help a lot too.
Thanks for sharing.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:40 am
Hello. Great job. I did not expect this today. This is a great story. Thanks!
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