Gastric Bypass on This Morning

[Undecided]

Is anyone watching ? I missed the beginning. It was the girl who was in the papers recently.

 

[Clare*]

Hi Undecided , ive just watched it , The programme are going to help her with psychological help ... i would watch it on itv catch up if you can , there was too much for me to write it all here .... I hope she can cope in the future. what heartache x

 

[brad scott]

yes i watched it and felt it made wls look bad thats only one girl (who i do feel very sorry for) but there are hundreds of people on here that have had great success me included and no one ever hears about that do they xx

 

[sydenham]

it is so sad as the young girl clearly has issues. So much as happened in her short life and its obvious that she has made some poor choices. In the newspapers, several readers made issue of the fact that she had "*****" tattooed across her shoulders. But is this just more self loathing? She looked pitiful, painfully thin and very little hair. You have to feel so sorry for the fact that she must have somehow missed out on the love and support of people around her and knowing that she was the youngest in the country, maybe the team should have continued their input for many years.
I hope she manages to recover and wish her well.

 

[Clare*]

Totally agree ... i wonder how we could spread the word for pro surgery ? magazine ? mind you, could have dodgy consequences , maybe thats why we dont hear much ? xxx

 

[starr]

i agree brad, theres a couple of threads about this ,and i just feel sad for such a sad girl who has some real problems and hope she gets the help she obviously needs ,but didnt feel a connection with the story and my journey,thankfully x

 

[msunique]

I saw this and thought a bypass for a 16 year old is all wrong!, I am sure at that age they could have provided her more support, from psychological to fat camps etc. I have had the op but at 35 I feel I was mature enough to make that choice for myself but at 16 she is still a child and I am sure if she had someone "holding her hand" to re-educate her with eating and exercise habits this could have been avoided.

I know how hard it is dieting (dont we all!!!) but if I had someone cooking my meals for me or encouraging me to cook my own healthy meals and showing me how to prepare fresh wholseome meals and someone to kick me up the bum to get out of the house and exercise and get me away from the everyday bad routine maybe I wouldnt have needed it to, but with a family its a big no no but at 16 it could have been done.

I wish her all the best and hope she overcomes the anorexia xx

 

[The Chopster]

Hoping to catch this on I player

 

[phatmomma]

I saw this and thought a bypass for a 16 year old is all wrong!, I am sure at that age they could have provided her more support, from psychological to fat camps etc. I have had the op but at 35 I feel I was mature enough to make that choice for myself but at 16 she is still a child and I am sure if she had someone "holding her hand" to re-educate her with eating and exercise habits this could have been avoided.

I know how hard it is dieting (dont we all!!!) but if I had someone cooking my meals for me or encouraging me to cook my own healthy meals and showing me how to prepare fresh wholseome meals and someone to kick me up the bum to get out of the house and exercise and get me away from the everyday bad routine maybe I wouldnt have needed it to, but with a family its a big no no but at 16 it could have been done.

I wish her all the best and hope she overcomes the anorexia xx

I didn't see the show so have no idea what you're all talking about. I do 16 is way too young to choose to have major surgery unless your life depends on it, as i said i don't know who you're talking about...

I would say i think a 16 yr old girl would eat healthy if someone cooked all her meals for her. I also think she'd be off out with her mates and eating the rubbish they eat too. Us people with weight issues learn all the tricks, eat the cake in the car and drop it in the bin outside or up the road, hide the biccie rubbish, buy two of what you fancy and take one home after eating the other.... Kids are even sneakier, so no i don't think she'd have done it on her own without one heck of a dangling carrot.........

 

[weeble]

Phatmomma - she was 34 stone at 16 and had already had angina attacks. I think the reason they did the operation was because her life was being put at risk by her weight. She came over on the segment as not very bright and really struggling to answer the questions. I just think she needed a lot of psychological support and they gave her the bypass and left her too it.

 

[DietingDeb]

I don't even know where to start with this one, her parents split up when she was a baby, well there are well over 60% of school kids in that situation at this time. They gave her the op coz if they didn't she was going to die and now the NHS have let her down yet again because they haven't got her the right shrink - well the £300 it would have cost her for the lovely tattoo on her back could have paid for a bit of therapy of her along with her other tattoos.

It makes me so angry that she is taking no responsability for anything that has happened in her life, we all have problems some worse than others - she basically starved herself whilst she was pregnant if that wasn't the trigger to make her eat then nothing is really. It's not nice that her baby died but why get pregnant when you know you are anorexic and it will kill or badly damage your baby.

I am all over the place with this one, the bypass saved her life . . . she has no gratitude for the surgeons who tried to save her life or the doctors who have tried to help her in the past.

They are trying to portray her as this weak little girl who has had it so hard - well the tattoo on her back shows she is hardly a sunday school candidate

It just makes the whole process the rest of us are going through look like a joke, we all have our problems the thing is we all have to learn to act like a grown up and deal with them and I am afraid that my view is that if you are old enough to have a child then you are old enough to take responsability for your actions.

I hope she does get better and go on to have a good life but not at the expense of making a mockery of the hard work the rest of us are having to put in to getting our health back.

 

[Louise1]

I've been off work recently and watching loads of day time TV for my sins.
I didn't realise how common it was for post-oppers to suffer from anorexia and bulimia.
I'm going down the NHS route so I have access to CBT & psychiatrists. I acknowledge I need to know why I'm this size. Unless I sort out any psychological issues I have then they may transfer..
I'm glad the NHS now provide this as park of the surgery package. Clearly bariatric surgery can bring other demons to the surface that my fat may be hiding!!
xx

 

[kurvykaren]

Hi
I missed this yesterday but want to watch it but cannot get it on catch up or online.

If anyone can post a link to it I'd be grateful.

Thanks

 

[Louise1]

Her story was in Closer or Reveal last week too hun. You might find it there.
xx