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Obese teen credits surgery for weight loss

jeffcagle:

If you want to read this article as it was originally intended, go ahead and click the link above. I just included what I found to be the most interesting points. I’m sure I’ll be called unsympathetic, and the emphasis below is obviously mine, but this is how I read this article:

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“I’m a junk-food person and because I’m a couch potato I don’t like to get off the couch,” she said. “It’s also kind of just like my genes: Both my parents are heavy and that’s just the environment I was raised in.”

Now, she said, she is well on her way to becoming a healthy teen and adult. She works out playing the Wii video game and walks every day with her brother after school. She is eating a high-protein diet.

“This surgery is a tool in your tool box to becoming healthy,” she said. “It is not the quick fix. You need a lot more. You need to exercise you need to make the right food choices.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it does seem to me that surgery was a quick fix in her case. She went so far as to admit she didn’t like getting off the couch.

I just get so sick of reading these stories with the tone that we are supposed to feel sorry for the morbidly obese. Especially when they ADMIT that they are lazy and that, you know, losing weight is hard work. At some point you just have to decide what’s most important in your life: the comfort of junk food, or your health.

On a somewhat related note because it has to do with being active, do you want to know what the greatest thing I heard today was?

As I pulled into my driveway after a 16-mile bike ride, one of my neighbors was walking by and said “Hey Jeff, you just inspired me to get out on my bike.”

That makes me feel better than any compliment I could have received.

OH BUH-ROTHER. Here we go again.

So what is it that you want Jeff? Every other week you’re blogging about how you have no sympathy for the obese and 9,000 other things that basically boil down to: hey fats, stop being fat. So here we have an article about someone taking steps to lose weight, admitting that much of her weight problem was of her own doing (but really, being so young, 90% of the blame is on her parents), and using something that might have promoted her inactivity (video games) as a tool for weight loss - you’re STILL bitching.

Forget the tone. FUCK the tone. The fact is that she’s getting healthy. Maybe not by methods you would choose but who cares? Bariatric surgery is NOT a quick fix. She’s well aware that she needs to put in the effort. So what, you only want people to be healthy via the Jeff Cagle method of biking 16 miles around the suburbs? Insert over the top eyeroll and hairflip.

Also, this girl is FOURTEEN years old. Fourteen. At least she’s taking fucking initiative. When I was fourteen all I wanted to do was watch TRL and talk on the phone for hours on end and eat Rap Snacks.

truth. ps, those bike shorts with the butt and crotch padding don’t make you look like you take this “biking lifestyle” seriously. they make you look like a giant d-hole.

Source: jeffcagle