Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Quitting Smoking vs. Loosing Weight and WLS


Sitting here alone in my office waiting for someone to call and tell me there is a problem leaves so much time to think. So I have been thinking a lot about the differences between quitting smoking and loosing weight. I quit smoking November 1st 2004. Aside from a couple of drags off of someone else’s cigarette a few times the following two days I have not had a cigarette since. Now I say that like it was easy… well let me tell you that was one of the most painful and hardest things I have ever done. I went through many emotions and was pretty difficult to live with for quite a while. I still have issues to this day about wanting to smoke. My son and friends were very supportive and didn’t give me much trouble when I would give them attitude either. They are great.

Now the issue of loosing weight. I have been on many diets over the last decade. Some would have some effect and the weight would come off some would just not work at all but either way I would not only put the weight back on it would come back in uglier places and there would be more then what left in the first place. I finally decided to have the gastric bypass surgery and it happed as some of you may know on 12/21/05.

Ok, let’s compare the two. As stated above quitting smoking was very difficult. Loosing weight was even more difficult and I have come to a conclusion. Maybe some of you have already found this out but for me it is pretty new. When you quit smoking you have the option to never take smoke into your body again. You can cut that off without actually dieing as a result. But when you begin a journey to loose weight you cant just stop eating… that can kill you as it has many people in the world voluntary or not.

Most of you know how disheartening it is to loose some weight and have it come right back. A lot of us have done this for years. So many people have opted for Surgery. Myself included. Did I cheat? Was it the easy way out? To some the answer may be yes. But this has been pretty tough so far. I still have to cut my portions (with some help) I have to make good food choices, and I have to exercise (at least walk daily) the motivation for that is quite nil at the moment. But I look at it like this. So if I cheated (in your eyes) but I think cheating a diet is far better than risking the death of a morbidly obese individual.


Just had to rant abit.

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