Anti Weight Loss Surgery??

Weight loss surgery support forums (online) make me uneasy.
I try to participate in them.
I try to be positive about shake-drinking, water overconsupmtion, pouch management (Dear God, do you have any idea how much I can't stand the word "pouch"??) and the whole idea of calling it a weight-loss-journey. I try. Really I do.
But this is not the way to be healthy.
I feel it in my thrice surgeried body.
I know it in my soul.

I just had a few spoonfuls of TCBY frozen yogurt and am nauseated with my heart beating really hard like it's trying to get out of my chest (some of the symptoms of dumping syndrome).

Serves me right.
TCBY is an odious product made from the worst kind of
over processed,
preserved,
faux-healthy,
non-nutritive ingredients.

No wonder my compromised digestive tract can't handle it.
The body works extra hard to try to digest foods that have been tragically de-natured.
A body with a rewired, weakened by WLS digestive tract has to work even harder.

Would I wish this misery on anyone?

Not that I wish obesity on anyone either.
But WLS is not the best way to get lean.

Folks who are pro-WLS will be happy to tell me how I went into this surgery with my eyes open.
Let me correct you.
I went into THREE of these surgeries with my eyes open.
Two bandings and one bypass.
I went into these surgeries because I didn't think I had any options.
At 400 plus pounds, severely diabetic with lethal level sleep apnea, I was desperate.
What else was I supposed to do?

I had no idea about metabolic typing.
I'd never heard of traditional foods or Weston A. Price.
Even though I was suffering from severe adrenal fatigue I had no idea what it was nor would any allopathic doctor tell me about it.

Food allergies?
Inflammation?
"Health" foods with little or no nutritional value??
I had no clue.
Well, I had clues but no holistic picture of how they all tied together.
NO idea that I could get real help without the surgery.

I think these gung ho smiling weight loss surgery forums help to convince other morbidly obese folks that surgery is A-ok as long as they follow the rules.
But if we could follow rules,
we wouldn't be turning to weight loss surgery.
Right??
Folks get these surgeries because they think weight loss surgery is a "Tool" to help them follow the rules, the same rules that have failed them for most of their lives.

This can't be right.
There's no way this is healthy.
I don't believe that a rearranged digestive tract can utilize vitamin pills to make up for the deficit in nutrition from real, natural food.
(I don't believe folks who haven't had their digestive tracts rearranged can take pills to make up for the deficit in nutrition either.)

I think this is an industry built on lies and coercion.
It's all about profit.
The patients are convinced because they're desperate.
They look at the few shining examples of folks who have taken off their weight and believe that weight loss after WLS is equivalent to good health.
Is it??

Now the bariatric shake and supplement industry is booming as it proffers products disguised as protein-just-for-bariatric folks.
Almost all the whey protein shakes on the market are derived from pasteurized whey, a waste product of the factory farming dairy industry, a sickly, malnutritive way of getting food and disrespecting life.
Now the bariceutical industry has found a whole new niche (huge niche) market for their nutritionally bereft products.
It's a sin.

I feel like crap today and I think my grouchy blog reflects that
but I mean it when I say I think the weight loss surgery industry is corrupt.
In the long run these are not procedures designed with optimal  health in mind.
These are surgeries designed for a narrow definition of health and for huge profit.

Folks who are deemed "successful" at WLS are those who take their weight off, follow the rules, and produce acceptable numbers on their blood tests.
As far as real, lasting, health is concerned??
I'm not seeing any focus on that.
Nor am I seeing evidence that a respectable percentage of post-ops are really healthy.

As far as real  nutrition?
I have yet to see anyone in the WLS field talk about it with any seriousness.
The dietitians who "support" bariatric patients are label readers.
They wouldn't know bone broth from Campbells' soup.
They'd rather their patients cripple up and die before they'd consider recommending raw milk.
They judge health by thinness rather than aliveness.

I'm just done.
I've had it.
It's time for a real change.

Step One: change me.
Step Two:  help others change.
Step Three: happily ever after.


*Lisa's Video Pick of the Day*
When's the last time the bariatric community (patients, docs, dietitians) had any serious
conversation on probiotics?
Digestive enzymes??
Celtic sea salt?
Food sensitivities??
sigh
Until I become a certified Nutrition Therapist I'll just listen to the likes of Erin Huggins
and people who have discovered real health and real food!
click here or click below