Here is an article written by Julia Harvey:
You can't pick up a women's magazine without an article about dieting, weight loss and celebrity extremes somewhere in it. Perhaps most troubling of the recent celebrity slimming stories is that of Star Jones. I can't say that I am a "fan" of Ms. Jones because I don't watch the view and never saw her on court TV but she is fascinating, at least the bit of her that I know. Anyone who reaches her level of success is doing something right. It is my opinion however that now, she is doing something quite wrong!
I recall her having been a rather strong 'fat acceptance' advocate but now given her dramatic weight loss she is stressing the reason that she lost weight was to improve her health--that I applaud, but the problem is that she isn't really telling the whole story about HOW she lost so much weight.
I watched her on a cable news interview the other night. I found her to be very likeable and personable--I didn't know that about her before, but I also heard her say numerous times that "her doctors" initiated her weight loss and other such evasive comments. I am assuming, as are millions of other people, that she must have had gastric bypass surgery. WHY won't she come out and say it?
In a way, I am glad that she isn't touting the method as the end all diet secret, because it isn't. But she also isn't making it clear that the best way to lose weight is through healthy eating, exercise, drinking water and positive attitude.
Gastric Bypass surgery in and of itself may "require" healthy eating for a successful outcome, but it does not ensure it. To have a celebrity like Ms. Jones evade the answer as to what "procedure" she had, so as not to become their poster child but to make her weight loss seem effortless and easy will indirectly lead more people to seek that procedure. She did say that forever changing HABITS and PATTERNS is the key to keeping weight off. THAT I agree with Ms. Jones, but I know that I can get just as much weight as you lost off of ANY person, in the same amount of time that it took YOU to lose it and do so without having any surgical "jumpstart" required! Take that challenge and put it on The View! ANY person, any where--
Gastric Bypass is the most dangerous operation being performed today, in my opinion. My husband's uncle spent 10 months in critical care after a post operative complication. Here's an email about a young woman who just had Gastric Bypass performed:
"Julia, I wanted to update you on the girl i told you about while back that weighs 430 pounds.. and had the skin 'apron' removed because of the infections... the one whose mom is way overweight too... well a month agao yesterday she had gastric bypass.. i don't really have time to tell you about it...in detail on what I feel what will happen to her... but to make a long story short... first off; they couldn't even do the surgery correctly because she was too overweight.... they made a long skinny pouch to go the length of her liver cause it was too enlarged (fat) to do what they wanted to do.. first let down.... so far she has lost 55 pounds in a month an she has a good outlook and thinks it will help her and she will get skinny... but on week TWO!!!! week 2... she was already eating "bites" of things that were not allowed yet and PROUD that her stomach could handle it... the week of xmas she ate a BITE of turkey and dressing... and said her stomach "handled it" although she was suppose to be only on liquids... since then she has eaten many BITES of items that she is not allowed to have yet... this scares me casue if she is already eating the things not allowed... sooner or later her stomach will let her have 2 bites... then 3.... then she will be able to "HANDLE" more..... she was gonna die if she didn't do somehting and i am glad she "DID" somehting... BUT.... if she is already doing this.. where will she be next year at this time... if for some reason you feel the need to include this for others to know that once again, unless you change what you KNOW is healthy and what you know you should eat.... your lifestyle wont be changed.."
This email is from a woman who lost 185 pounds with my approach and I never had to cut into her stomach--not once!
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