After reading Norma's post about the fatties up-in-arms about not having a plus-sized sexy Ursula (blech..), I felt the need to jump on the up-in-arms bandwagon too.
Did you know they give surgery patients a food discount card? I find this so many kinds of ridiculous it's not even funny.
I can just picture the commercial now:
Announcer: Hey Jane Doe! You've just had life-saving, last resort gastric bypass surgery because you are so overweight it's caused diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure! What are you going to do now?
Jane: I'm going to GOLDEN CORRAL and get a smaller sized buffet with my certified gastic bypass patient card!
Don't get me wrong - I love the idea of being allowed to eat kid's meals, I think everyone should allow that. But the discount to the buffet.. no so sure about that one.
From what I know about most weight loss surgeries (my lifelong BFF has RnY gastric bypass and has maintained a 180 lb loss for four years), the foods one can and should eat are VERY limited. Of course, unfortunately, a great deal of WLS patients ignore that and go right back to gorging, eating crap and seeing what they can get away with. This is just gross. If Golden Corral were the last food on earth, I would happily let myself and my kids starve.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't 170 on the scale mean that half of you is gone ? That is awesome !!
ReplyDeleteIt's sad, those doctors aren't supportive of their patients. Of course the corporations are only interested in profit, but I find this sort of program predatory.
ReplyDeleteWow! That was a funny post:) What are you going to do now?
ReplyDeleteJane: I'm going to GOLDEN CORRAL and get a smaller sized buffet with my certified gastic bypass patient card!