Big Pete
Steve,
I caught Oprah’s show yesterday and saw Pete. He looked great. I’m trying to
remember which man this was. There were 2 men, one that weighed over 500lbs and
another around 350lbs.
The heavier man looked great and said he never knew what Mickey Mouse looked
like because he had not been out of his home in over 20 years, he went to
Disneyworld and finally got to meet Mickey (that was too cute of a story). He
cannot walk that well due towards knee cartiledge damage because of his weight
and needs to go in for knee surgery some day. I think he now weighs around
240lbs? Some where in there.
The other gentlemen that lost over 100 lbs (conventional way) looked great also
and went on his first date in over 20 years.
I kept thinking to myself, knowing how I had gained back all my weight when I
dieted the traditional way and gained more on top of that, I hope this man keeps
it off. Sometimes, we have no control over the grehlin and leptin hormonal
factor and the body wants to go back to it’s fat status. The good thing about
WLS is we decrease those odds tremendously.
Hope this recap helps.
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August 25th, 2005 at 9:31 pm
It’s an interesting thing about those hormones. Morbidly obese people have
a higher level of leptin AND ghrelin than smaller folk, and ghrelin levels
dr9p like a stone and stay down after WLS. I haven’t seen any studies
about leptin postop, does anybody know of any?
Jane Harper
Every complex problem has a solution that is simple, direct, plausible, and
wrong. — H.L. Mencken