# Weight loss surgery dopers: I'm coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246 "2006-04-04T13:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/21 "2006-04-10T02:51:31Z")
> [@DarkButterfly](#): > > Mom i don’t think u could lose weight your just fat! Oh come on. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/22 "2006-04-10T03:45:30Z")
> [@DarkButterfly](#): > > Mom i don’t think u could lose weight your just fat! Is this a joke? ---
**Author:** ![ThreadPirateRoberts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@ThreadPirateRoberts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreadPirateRoberts)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/23 "2006-04-10T03:52:35Z")
not a joke my mom is just one fat lady ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/24 "2006-04-10T04:14:53Z")
> [@DarkButterfly](#): > > not a joke my mom is just one fat lady **DarkButterfly** , I realize **norinew** is your mom, but this isn’t the place for this kind of post. Personal issues between posters are not allowed here, for one thing. For another, your lack of support for your mom is appalling. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/25 "2006-04-10T04:24:30Z")
Hi, norinew – count me in among your admirers. Can’t wait to hear about your success. And don’t pay any mind to the nay sayers, no matter WHO they are. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/26 "2006-04-10T04:29:32Z")
> [@DarkButterfly](#): > > not a joke my mom is just one fat lady No, she’s one very COOL lady. At least in my view. ---
**Author:** ![ThreadPirateRoberts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@ThreadPirateRoberts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreadPirateRoberts)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/27 "2006-04-10T06:22:08Z")
Honestly everyone she weighs like 350 pounds. This surgery might help but she is still gonna be fat. She will never be skinny. This has nothing to do with personal issues the women is fat god. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/28 "2006-04-10T10:31:54Z")
**Guin, Tenar, featherlou** , thanks for the kind words! (and, **Gingy** , thanks for having my back!). **DarkButterfly** , I’m not gonna drag all of our stuff onto the boards, and if you continue to do so, it might put your membership here in jeopardy. No, I’m not junior modding, just that, because you’re kinda new, I’m letting you know that this kind of stuff is not taken kindly. You know damn well, because I’ve shown you enough before and afters, that people even fatter than me have lost _all_ of their excess weight with this surgery. And just in case you didn’t realize it, **Guin** and **Ginger** are both perfectly aware of just _how_ “queen of fat” I am. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/29 "2006-04-10T10:54:34Z")
> [@DarkButterfly](#): > > Honestly everyone she weighs like 350 pounds. This surgery might help but she is still gonna be fat. She will never be skinny. This has nothing to do with personal issues the women is fat god. Guess again, sister. Me at 334: [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Me-preop-yellowjacket.jpg](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Me-preop-yellowjacket.jpg) Me at 210: [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Pamela-lavendershirt-sitting-2005.jpg](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Pamela-lavendershirt-sitting-2005.jpg) Me at 180: [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Pamela-2.jpg](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Pamela-2.jpg) Do some research before you start spewing. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/30 "2006-04-10T11:36:05Z")
> [@VCNJ](#): > > Do some research before you start spewing. Thanks for the back up, and _damn_ you look good! But the fact is, she knows the stats. She’s seen before and afters of people in my size range and even larger (in fact, I’m 320, which I just told her last week. Either she has no head for numbers, or she’s being deliberately mean-spirited; pick one). She’s met the now-thin-by-anyone’s-standards **OpalCat** in person. Fact is, she _knows_ she’s spewing. And I know _why_ she’s doing it, but I’m not going to drag the family’s dirty laundry onto the boards now that she’s a member. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/31 "2006-04-10T11:40:50Z")
> [@Veuve\_ClicquotNJ](#): > > Guess again, sister. > > [deletia] > > Do some research before you start spewing. > > VCNJ~ I can show the same stuff, except I’m at work at the moment. I’ll post before and after tonight… ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/32 "2006-04-10T11:42:22Z")
> [@Veuve\_ClicquotNJ](#): > > Guess again, sister. Oh, and I forgot… **Veuve** , darlin’, how you doin’? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/33 "2006-04-10T11:45:27Z")
**norinew** - permission to smack **DB** upside the head a few times. We support you even if she doesn’t. Best of luck for your WLS and the journey after. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/34 "2006-04-10T11:46:00Z")
Just want to wish you the best of luck, **norinew.** I hope everything goes well. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/35 "2006-04-10T11:55:11Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > **norinew** - permission to smack **DB** upside the head a few times. We support you even if she doesn’t. Best of luck for your WLS and the journey after. Permission granted! And thank you. This isn’t really lack of support on her part. It’s just her throwing a little hissy fit. Y’know when five-year-olds have temper tantrums and tell you they hate you? It’s like that. > [@VunderBob](#): > > I can show the same stuff, except I’m at work at the moment. I’ll post before and after tonight… Oh, goody! I _love_ before and after pics! 🆒 **BiblioCat** , thanks! I appreciate the support! so nice of DB to bump the popularity of this thread like this, huh? ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/36 "2006-04-10T13:00:30Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Oh, and I forgot… > > **Veuve** , darlin’, how you doin’? 😉 lol I am fabulous, of course! 😃 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/37 "2006-04-10T13:03:17Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Thanks for the back up, and _damn_ you look good! But the fact is, she knows the stats. She’s seen before and afters of people in my size range and even larger (in fact, I’m 320, which I just told her last week. Either she has no head for numbers, or she’s being deliberately mean-spirited; pick one). She’s met the now-thin-by-anyone’s-standards **OpalCat** in person. Fact is, she _knows_ she’s spewing. And I know _why_ she’s doing it, but I’m not going to drag the family’s dirty laundry onto the boards now that she’s a member. That’s OK, norinew. It just chaps my hide when people spout off biased & totally baseless information about a surgery that can and has improved so many lives. And thanks for the compliments. The smaller size is an added feature; I’d have this surgery every day of the week for the rest of my life even if I _NEVER_ lost a pound - as long as I could feel as good as I do right now. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/38 "2006-04-10T13:14:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Honestly everyone she weighs like 350 pounds. This surgery might help but she is still gonna be fat. She will never be skinny. This has nothing to do with personal issues the women is fat god. **DarkButterfly** , consider this a warning shot across the bow. Not quite an official mod warning (so it won’t be recorded), but it does need to be taken seriously. Now that you and your mom are both members of this board, you’ll need to keep any personal problems between the two of you off-board. The SDMB isn’t meant to provide you (or anyone) with a platform to take shots at other members–regardless of family connection. If you can’t resist taking shots at **norinew** , perhaps it’s wiser for you to avoid her threads. If this happens again, you will be warned. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/39 "2006-04-10T13:28:50Z")
> [@VCNJ](#): > > That’s OK, norinew. It just chaps my hide when people spout off biased & totally baseless information about a surgery that can and has improved so many lives. I know _exactly_ what you mean. It seems like weight loss surgery is a lot like pregnancy in that, once you anounce it, people feel free to throw out the most horrific things they can! If I hear _one more time_ about some guy whose father-in-laws ex-wife’s niece had the surgery, and they screwed up, and now she’s fifty pounds heavier than ever before, plus they ended up putting her toenails in esophagus and it costs her a _fortune_ to get a pedicure. . .I’m gonna puke! ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/40 "2006-04-10T13:38:28Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > I know _exactly_ what you mean. It seems like weight loss surgery is a lot like pregnancy in that, once you anounce it, people feel free to throw out the most horrific things they can! If I hear _one more time_ about some guy whose father-in-laws ex-wife’s niece had the surgery, and they screwed up, and now she’s fifty pounds heavier than ever before, plus they ended up putting her toenails in esophagus and it costs her a _fortune_ to get a pedicure. . .I’m gonna puke! lol Someone on the online support group was asked “So…how do you eat now that you don’t have any intestines?” :eek: VCNJ~ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246.md?page=3)