How far would you go?

I really don't know why I bother switching notifications on when I am not notified that you have started a new discussion. As a result I am several cream cakes and countless biscuits fatter than when this discussion was first aired. I don't much mind what Fern Britten does, although I thought that she was a good reminder that it isn't only anorexic stick insects that can get on TV these days. I have tried to lose weight over the years. Now it is very half hearted. In my late teens I genuinely was very toned and muscular. I was a keen oarsman and trained 7 days a week. However, since then it has all been downhill. I have trained, dieted, even starved (for a whole half day) but nothing seems to work. So I now accept that it is not wise to walk past maternity hospitals in case they rush me in and try to induce my clearly late baby! My man boobs really do need a bra, conical or not, to accommodate them and when I jump there is a short lag whilst my skin catches up. With that happy image I shall leave you.

Why the heck would we care its none of our business to worry about another persons weight.If that person saw that it was going to help her then thats fine and ok by me,and I reckon its nothing to do with anyone else one little bit.

I will go for any healthy way and will not take any risk to destroy myself just to lose weight!

Fortunately I'm not too much fat but I think I'd do everything it's necessary to protect my health.I mean that I 'd put also a gastric band if necessary to lose weigh and feel better.

I have all the self control of a ravenous Tazmanian devil, so I guess that if I had issues with my weight someone would have to sew my mouth shut or lock me in a cupboard.

Well I think that Fern looks brilliant,and so what really if she has had a gastric band.Thats no ones business but hers.I wished that I looked as good as she did.

Based on what I have learned about myself from years of thinking about/trying to loose weight, I quit the trying a long, long time ago. I still think about loosing my excess weight, and I periodically dance with the idea of going on a diet again. But the dance is very brief. I know I won't start on any weight loss regime until I know I will keep the weight off once it is gone. To lose pounds and then to regain all those pounds plus the friends they picked up on the way back ... it was just so hard mentally/emotionally. The whole process of loose/gain/loose/gain/gain just compounded the underlying reasons why I am overweight to begin with. And each regain added to my "beat-myself-up-because-I-failed-again" list. My opinion: Unless the weight situation is immediately lift threating, to go through some of these drastic measures to loose weight without addressing why the excess weight is there ... seems like a recipe for disaster (or at least an opportunity for "weight with friends" to return).