CNN: Surgery helps woman drop 140 pounds, 10 dress sizes

In article , Petula says...

snip from the article:

"Despite the rapid weight loss, surgery wasn't an easy way out. Hill says
she still has to plan her meals and eat properly, and one of the biggest
downsides is that she has difficulty digesting some starchy foods.

"I can't eat bread, potatoes, rice," says Hill. "I have to cut up
everything into pencil eraser-size [pieces] and chew, chew, chew."

Looks like she is having to low-carb even with the surgery. She should have cut
out those items from her diet in the first place and avoided the surgery.

There is a co-worker of mine who lost over 200 lbs. with the gastric bypass. He
is still way overweight--and it appears that he has regained some of the weight
he originally lost.

In January he is undergoing another surgical procedure--(maybe they are going to
"bypass the bypass"?).

I've lost 55 lbs. this year. The first 20 lbs. took 8 months of skipping meals
and starving. The next 35 lbs. came off since August when I got smart and
started LCing. I expect to drop the final 35 lbs. or so in 2008 doing LC. I
can't eat rice, potatoes, and bread, either.

Unfortunately, people look for the quick fix (surgery, pills, etc.)

Going forward, I'm looking to get off my prescriptions and continue to be on the
path of good health.

Mark