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If you're anything like me, part of your standard loop of channel surfing includes TLC, Discovery and A and E which all have some quality reality programs. In a recent posting I confessed to gaining inspiration from a variety of random sources. One of those happen to be Matt Roloff of the TLC program Little People Big World. The guy is incredible and despite all his obstacles he goes about life as if they don't exist. If you're ever feeling sorry for yourself or think the deck is stacked against you, walk in Matt's shoes for a day. Anyway, TLC and others all seem to be including programs about obesity and some of the extreme proportion. I guess there is a new show called Big Medicine that focuses exclusively on gastric bypass becasue it's being advertised heavily and came on following LPBW. Ok, I got sucked in. Initially, I was annoyed by the lead in of all these massively obese people saying things like 'it's my only hope' or 'this is the only thing that can work'. It's irritating becasue eventhough the majority of your stomach is removed, you still need to be able to demonstrate some level of discipline or the weight will ultimately come back which is almost never reported on. The good news is the father and son surgury team who worked with 4 patients last night at least went into detail that there is a system and the prospective patient must demonstrate the abiltiy to lose some weight prior to the operation on a liquid only diet. Kudos to 1 guy who lost 100 lbs on the liquid diet. My natural question is, why couldn't he harness that same discipline with regular exercise and good nutrition? I mean an all liquid diet, now that's a challenge. I was also pleased to see that 1 patient who was over 400 lbs did not make the cut because she couldn't stick to the diet. I'm not happy that she didn't get it but rather that they are not simply selling surgury as an easy fix. Healthy Jumping... Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites         
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