Comments on: Just desserts in an appetizer world http://thenightwriterblog.com/2008/12/18/just-desserts-in-an-appetizer-world/ Illuminating fun, faith, family and foolishness. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:30:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hayden Tompkins http://thenightwriterblog.com/2008/12/18/just-desserts-in-an-appetizer-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3184 Hayden Tompkins Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:35:18 +0000 http://thenightwriterblog.com/?p=1295#comment-3184 I find that the older I get, the more I real8ize that you can't 'save' people. Money, or bariatric surgery,won't fix a problem because the behavior hasn't changed. <br /> <br />I have a friend who wants to get bariatric surgery because she is convinced that she 'can't lose weight'. Even though this is the same friend whose diet includes not one vegetable, a bunch of fast food, and soda. Because she won't watch what she eats now, she'll be obsessively watching what she eats for the rest of her life. <br /> <br />"There's hardly a "crisis" in our society today not caused by our unchecked appetites." <br /> <br />Indeed. I find that the older I get, the more I real8ize that you can’t ‘save’ people. Money, or bariatric surgery,won’t fix a problem because the behavior hasn’t changed.

I have a friend who wants to get bariatric surgery because she is convinced that she ‘can’t lose weight’. Even though this is the same friend whose diet includes not one vegetable, a bunch of fast food, and soda. Because she won’t watch what she eats now, she’ll be obsessively watching what she eats for the rest of her life.

“There’s hardly a “crisis” in our society today not caused by our unchecked appetites.”

Indeed.

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