Bariatric Surgery ?? BPD?? Sub-Arachnoid?? what are they all about?

please treat as urgent

2011-12-30T09:04:00.001Z

Dear Friend,

I am Joseph I.Tan, 72 years old From United State of America. I was a formal Finance Director of JB Trucks Company; My Company had business with BP where i made $8.600,000 usd of which my company has no idea. The total amount was legally deposited in International bank in Malaysia.

However i can't direct the monies to my account because of my illness and high taxation in my country rather I want you to assist me to receive it into your account or company account.

The Bank is ready to dispatch it pending when i present an account where the monies will be remitted. If you can help me in this transaction, I will compensate you with 20% of the total amount and you will also get benefit from the investment as I intend to invest the monies abroad.

If you accept to go along with me,I will appreciate your timely response to my private email;Josephltan18@gmail.com

Thanks and best regards

Joseph I. Tan
JB Truck, 9012 S.
Oketo, Bridgeview, IL 60455,

Follow Rediff Deal ho jaye! to get exciting offers in your city everyday.

Saturday

2011-08-06T23:06:00.001+01:00

Should note I went for the Friday meal with the boys last night. If the numbers arent right on Tuesday then are to blame. Saturday I ended up shopping late on. Jeans birthday on Monday. Happy I got back on track eating has been today. Fruit and water a bit low.

Off to Mums.

2011-08-05T15:18:00.001+01:00

Cereal for breakfast, two hours working from home. Then it's two buses to mums. Pop into Tesco metro for a lighter choices prawn Mayo sandwich. Some fruit and very nice too.

Day 3 still going

2011-08-04T22:59:00.001+01:00

Mostly in the bowel or bladder department. In bed feeling and over 300 kcals short of target. Had a meeting in town. Lunch in John Lewis. Feeling in a semblance of control.

This is the best side

2011-08-04T22:51:00.001+01:00

How does that look?

Graphic dragged in easy.

Try again

Blogsy test here I go again. This is gobblede took to test things. As usual I have tested nowt.

2011-08-04T22:44:00.001+01:00

Water water everywhere - Day 2

2011-08-03T13:46:00.003+01:00

Last night I dreamt of water, every shape, form or presentation. Fizzy sparkling frozen, lakes, waterfalls, kettles everlasting tea urns. When I woke up my bladder was like a space hopper. Goodness me the first few minutes of wakefulness were a challenge.
I reviewed my day and realised it was all the water I drank yesterday well it has to go somewhere. Breakfast and lunch are out of the way. feel satiated need to go for a walk soon and exercise. Motivation nil. Done my first bit of serious work from hem today (for the day job).
Logistical problems around the phones etc remain.
I have been really touched by the good wishes of people on WLSinfo.

Is anybody out there.

2011-08-02T22:40:00.002+01:00

I am stretching my blogging hand for the first time in a while. So much has happened and so little has changed. I still have struggles with demons and live in hope of a daily reprieve. This post tonight from WLSinfo took a lot to write

Anyone who has been here for a while will now I have had a complex history since I had my bypass in 2002. I have ticked far too many boxes in the physical illness section, struggled with mental health issues and cross dependency issues. Looking back its been an interesting journey and I have survived lots and made many good friends. My weight has yo yod and I new since my recent hospital admission that the new pills I am on would increase my already out of control weight. Good friends have been worried but its difficult to mention, and like most here I am a sensitive soul.

The AGM is pressing and I have made a plan to slow down the weight gain or even lose some by then. I am taking a very gradual slow steady approach to this. I have seen other friends struggling with regain, and them making plans, and taking admirable steps.

I have just snook into Tesco under cover of darkness and done "the walk" to the scales at the back. It didnt feel good and I got a bit of a shock.

I have a plan and a programme in place and I face the end of this day nearly feeling positive about food and weight for the first time in a long time. I feel unable to share details about numbers etc yet though if I lose 5 stone by the AGM I may mention it (kidding).

Just vocalising it makes it easier, please dont accuse me of, not practising what I preach, nor obeying what I advocate, the judgemental stuff or scorn doesnt help. I feel a few pound has just dropped of my chest by venting anyway. If I was a finisher I would write a blog or something. Anyway onward and upward.

Anyway one day at a time weighed today 24st 13lbs. I need to face some honest truth about where I am still about ten stone off after nine years. Want to see a shlow down of gain by 4th September and a loss by AGM.

Brochure- Gravitas Ltd

2010-02-02T20:05:00.001Z

Brochure- Gravitas Ltd

Our ebrochure.

Shareaholic for Google Chrome - The best browser add-on extension to share, tweet, bookmark, save and e-mail web pages quickly

2010-02-02T20:05:00.000Z

Shareaholic for Google Chrome - The best browser add-on extension to share, tweet, bookmark, save and e-mail web pages quickly

Weekend, 04 Apr 2009. Pages 14 - 15

2009-04-17T00:18:00.001+01:00

Weekend
04 Apr 2009

Saturday

2009-04-04T10:53:00.000+01:00

On way to Ocean terminal to see brendas boat.
------------------

Away

2009-04-03T10:59:00.000+01:00

10.57 Lime street to blackpool. Jump off at Wigan. Lime street full of fascinators etc for Ladies Day at Aintree. Some shocking sights.
------------------

Twitter

2009-02-21T12:52:00.001Z

Is twitter going to replace my blog?

I really am not sure but its looking possible.

Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Edmonton Obesity Staging System

2009-02-13T23:29:00.001Z

http://www.drsharma.ca/edmonton-obesity-staging-system.html

Setting up snap shooting mode on the G9 « LifeSpy with a G9

2009-02-05T21:05:00.001Z

http://lifespy.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/setting-up-snap-shooting-mode-on-the-g9/

2009-01-23T10:05:00.001Z

Its payday for Jean at least. Its my birthday next Tuesday then Allys on the Friday. I hope I get some mac related goods.

2009-01-10T12:08:00.001Z

Blog needs more posts - I suppose I could write about new year resolutions that I dont make andwoud never keep even if I did.
Me I want to go to gym and learn to swim.

Oscar the Hamster

2008-12-27T00:05:00.001Z

Oscar the Hamster, originally uploaded by kenclarewls.

Boxing Night

2008-12-26T12:20:00.001Z

Well its boxing day - the blog has been bereft of late.
Santa brought me some new speakers - jbl duet 2.0 if you are nosey and a pair of sennheiser headphones proper sortI am made up. I was sick copiously from 4pm Christmas for about 22 hours. Feel relatively ok now.A lazy day today.

2008-12-26T12:17:00.001Z

"It's About Time Products" - Learn the iPhone 3G® - Learn the Switch to Mac® - "It's About Time to Learn the Switch to Mac®"

2008-12-23T00:35:00.001Z

http://www.itsabouttimeproducts.com/Switch_to_Mac/

I may install this on the gravitas imac

In a caff

2008-12-16T14:49:00.000Z

I am waiting for my dinner a geezer just ordered a breakfast. The waiter says beans or toms. He asks for mushy peas.
------------------

King-Size Homer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2008-11-19T22:20:00.001Z

[Collapse]

Wikipedia is there when you need it — now it needs you.

Donate Now »

[Expand]

Support Wikipedia: a non-profit project.

Donate Now »

[Expand]

Support Wikipedia: a non-profit project. — Donate Now

King-Size Homer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

The Simpsons episode

"King-Size Homer"

An obese Homer in a muumuu works at home.

Episode no.

135

Prod. code

3F05

Orig. airdate

November 5, 1995

Show runner(s)

Bill Oakley
Josh Weinstein

"Indian burns are not our cultural heritage."^[1]

Couch gag

The Simpsons are five malfunctioning wind-up dolls who buzz and waddle their way to the couch (or, in some cases, near it).^[2]

Guest star(s)

Joan Kenley as the telephone lady

DVD
commentary

Matt Groening
Bill Oakley
Josh Weinstein
Dan Greaney
Jim Reardon
David Silverman

[show]Season 7
September 17, 1995 – May 19, 1996
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" "Radioactive Man" "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" "Bart Sells His Soul" "Lisa the Vegetarian" "Treehouse of Horror VI" "King-Size Homer" "Mother Simpson" "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" "Marge Be Not Proud" "Team Homer" "Two Bad Neighbors" "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" "Bart the Fink" "Lisa the Iconoclast" "Homer the Smithers" "The Day the Violence Died" "A Fish Called Selma" "Bart on the Road" "22 Short Films About Springfield" "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'" "Much Apu About Nothing" "Homerpalooza" "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
List of all The Simpsons episodes

[show]Seasons
1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20

"King-Size Homer" is the seventh episode of The Simpsons' seventh season, and originally aired on November 5, 1995. Homer despises the nuclear plant's new exercise program and decides to gain 61 pounds (27.6kg) so that he can go on disability. It was written by Dan Greaney and directed by Jim Reardon. Joan Kenley makes her first of three guest appearances as the voice of the telephone lady.^[1] It is well known for Homer's attempt to find the any key on his computer's keyboard.

[hide]

1 Plot
2 Production
3 Cultural references
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Plot

Mr. Burns's exercise program

Mr. Burns organizes an exercise program at the Power Plant that Homer is not a fan of. After learning that someone who is disabled can work from home, (and thus be excluded from the exercise program), he tries to find a way to achieve this 'goal'. Homer soon discovers that any employee that weighs 300 pounds (136 kg) or more qualifies. Homer decides to gain the 61 pounds he needs to reach 300. Homer begins eating excessively, despite Marge and Lisa warning him he could severely endanger his health. With Bart's help, he gains weight rapidly. He reaches 315 pounds (142.9kg) after eating some Play-Doh that Maggie offers him in the absence of other food.

Mr. Burns gives Homer a stay at home work terminal. Homer is given simple duties, yet he still fails to understand his duties as a safety inspector. One day, he leaves his terminal, with a drinking bird to press 'Y' on the keyboard, and goes out to see a movie. Homer is angered after the manager tells him he is too fat to fit in the seats. The manager tells him that if he calms down, he would give him a garbage bag full of popcorn. Homer declines the offer and storms off in a huff, claiming that he is not food crazy and that overweight people are as hardworking as anyone else. He returns home to find that, in his absence, the nodding drinking bird fell over and that a nuclear meltdown will take place at the plant. As he is unable to stop it via the computer, Homer tries to run, skateboard, and drive to the plant, all of which fail as a result of his obesity. He eventually gets to the plant by stealing an ice cream truck. Homer arrives at the power plant and climbs up to reach the shutdown button, but ends up accidentally falling onto the gas store, blocking the release tube with his behind. As a reward for stopping the "potential Chernobyl", Mr. Burns gives Homer a medal and guarantees that he will make Homer thin once more. He does so by paying for Homer's liposuction to return him to his normal girth after traditional exercise fails.

[edit] Production

The writers of the episode wanted the title of the episode to make Homer sound proud about his weight, so they decided to name the episode "King Size Homer". The production staff also thought that Cary Grant would have been ideal for the 'Classy Pig' but as he passed away nine years before the episode was aired, they used Hank Azaria for that voice. The original ending for King-Size Homer was going to have Homer feeling bad about his obesity, and therefore become thin for Marge, but that idea was scrapped in early production.^[3]

[edit] Cultural references

While Homer is in the clothes store, as the camera pans with Homer, we see two mannequins wearing identical outfits and riding on bikes. These are based on Billy and Benny McCrary, the world's heaviest twins who weighed 700+ pounds each. They would appear again in the same season in the episode The Day the Violence Died as witnesses.^[3]
Homer thinks that he can order the soft drink Tab by pressing the Tab key on the keyboard.
When Homer goes to the theater, a movie theater patron insults Homer by suggesting he see the movie "A Fridge Too Far," a reference to the film A Bridge Too Far.
When Homer tries to hitchhike to the power plant before it melts down, he flags down a car and yells incoherently through the window, causing the driver to speed away in confusion and fear. This is a possible reference to a similar scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
When Homer vents gas from a nuclear reactor, the gas destroys crops of corn. A farmer looks and says, "Oh no, the corn! Paul Newman's gonna have ma' legs broke!" This is in reference to the legend on Newman's Own popcorn products, in which Newman threatens anyone who might try to steal his popcorn (in the original airing of this episode, the closed captioning had the line as "Jolly Time is gonna have ma' legs broke!", but this has been fixed for syndicated reruns).
Near the end of the episode, Mr. Burns remarks that Homer turned a "potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island," referencing two of the nuclear power industry's worst disasters.

[edit] Reception

In 2008, Empire placed The Simpsons at the top of their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" and noted "King-Size Homer" as the show's best episode.^[4]

Despite the numerous laughs at Homer's appearance in the audio commentaries, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote: "this isn't one of the best episodes. Homer's at his most irritating and childish here - you really want Marge to beat him up."^[2] During the DVD Commentary, the production staff say that this is a "Classic Homer caper"; one of the best of the season.^[3]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Richmond, Ray; Antonia Coffman (1997). The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family. Harper Collins Publishers, p. 228. ISBN 0-00-638898-1.
^ ^a ^b Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian (2000). "King-Size Homer". BBC. Retrieved on 2007-03-06.
^ ^a ^b ^c The Simpsons Season 7 DVD Commentary.
^ "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". Empire. Retrieved on 2008-03-29.

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

"King-Size Homer"

The Simpsons portal

"King-Size Homer" at The Simpsons.com
"King-Size Homer" at TV.com
"King-Size Homer" at the Internet Movie Database
"King-Size Homer" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Size_Homer"

Categories: The Simpsons episodes, season 7 | 1995 television episodes

Views

Personal tools

Search

Toolbox

Languages

The psychological effects of gastric bands and stomach stapling - Times Online

2008-11-18T10:15:00.001Z

The psychological effects of gastric bands and stomach stapling - Times Online

Books for schools

Navigation - link to other main sections from here

Skip Navigation

From The Times

July 12, 2008

The psychological effects of gastric bands and stomach stapling

Slimming by surgical procedures are increasingly popular but the underlying emotional problems are harder to shed than the pounds

JOHN NAISH

Stomach-shrinking operations have captured the headlines recently, with the post-operative death in June of 29-year-old Suzanne Murphy, who wanted to lose weight so she could play with her young son, and the daytime-TV star Fern Britton's earlier admission that her dramatic weight loss was due to a gastric band rather than willpower. But amid the arguments about vanity and surgical safety, one of the most crucial dangers is ignored - the huge psychiatric toll of these operations.

The numbers having NHS stomach surgery leapt by 41 per cent between 2006 and 2007. Parliamentary figures show that there were 3,459 such operations last year, up from 2,448 the year before, but the total does not include the soaring number of private procedures performed in Britain and abroad. The most common operations in Britain are gastric banding and the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (see box).

But amid the rush to slim by scalpel, doctors and patients are ignoring the fact that it isn't an easy cheat. While thousands of people do benefit, one operation in five fails because of a patient's significant psychological problems - the problems that led to their obesity - remaining unaddressed. The alarming way that many of these failures manifest themselves as binge-eating, severe depression, suicide or addictions is making experts increasingly sceptical.

Guidelines on who should have surgery

Guidelines by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recognise this potential for difficulties. They state that patients with psychological contraindications should not be considered for stomach surgery. But clinicians say this is often ignored. The story of the 19st (121kg) Suzanne Murphy, who died after suffering a huge reaction to stomach-stapling surgery at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, seems to exemplify this.

Sheila Connor, Murphy's sister, says that they both developed weight problems very young when they started comfort eating after their father died. She says that Murphy was bulimic before she became pregnant five years ago, and her weight had plummeted to 5st. After her son was born her weight spiralled, but she was never given proper psychiatric help for problems with food. "She was only given slimming pills, but whenever she got down to a certain weight, the problems kicked in," says Connor. Then Murphy had the ill-fated surgery.

John Morgan, a consultant psychiatrist at the Yorkshire Centre for Eating Disorders, began tracking obesity-surgery patients at St George's Hospital, South London, nine years ago. "Since then we have been turning out follow-up studies saying that psychological issues are powerful predictors of postoperative results. About a quarter to a fifth of patients who have surgery have bad outcomes, particularly if they have a history of binge eating, bulimia, depression or anorexia.

"If you are eating because of a need in your brain rather than a need for stomach satiety signals, having your stomach reduced is not going to solve that," he says. "In fact, having your stomach reduced will mean that you can't placate yourself in your usual way, so you can keep resolutely eating until you effectively reverse the operation by displacing the stomach band or creating a pouch in your intestines."

Patients cheat by liquidising food

A report in Pulse, the newspaper for doctors, highlights a problem called "soft calorie" syndrome, where patients cheat by consuming semi-liquid food that passes through the gut restriction. Nutritionists report stratagems such as melting Mars bars and liquidising McDonald's meals.

American psychologists have discovered how significant numbers of surgery patients become alcoholics, binge-shoppers or sex addicts. Melodie Moorehead, of the JFK Medical Centre in Atlantis, Florida, calls the problem "addiction transfer". She reports in the stomach-stapling journal Bariatric Times that people who have attributed all their problems to being overweight can suddenly realise that their emotional difficulties are not as easily shed as their excess pounds. Many of the patients become obese because they are compulsive eaters. When the eating stops, they develop another compulsion.

New research indicates that the neurological causes of compulsive eating may be similar to those of other self-destructive addictions such as cocaine addiction and alcoholism. Other studies suggest that obesity may protect against other addictions. A survey of 9,125 adults in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that obese people are 25 per cent less likely to abuse drugs. In 2004, Florida University researchers published a study of 298 women showing that obese women drink less alcohol than average. The researchers suggest that food and alcohol trigger the same reward sites in the brain.

Morgan adds: "There is also something we call multi-impulsive eating disorder, which affects a minority of patients who not only overeat, but also cut themselves or take drugs or alcohol, because their instability of personality leads them to do these things when faced with difficult emotions. Frankly, addressing these psychological problems can be necessary, but it's barely sufficient on its own. Obesity surgery basically involves retraining someone's behaviour, and that can take years." This is often ignored, he says. "Booming demand means that services are being developed that are like plastic surgery. But it's just not like breast augmentation.

"There are some good centres in the UK that focus on comprehensive treatment to address both mind and body issues. But there are many more where people don't really know what they are doing. I would like to see services be given minimum standards before they can start operating. There needs to be access to eating disorder experts and budgets for the significant minority who need postoperative support."

Samantha Scholtz, who gives NHS patients pre-surgical psychiatric assessments at the Imperial Weight Centre, Charing Cross Hospital, West London, cautions that post-surgical support is often lacking. "The first few weeks after the operation, people are very emotional.The effects of the surgery, not being able to eat, and losing weight all cause depression and anxiety. Six months down the line, more depression arises. Often this is because their expectations have not been met. The body image is often not great. There is a lot of loose skin and it is cosmetically not a good operation. But sometimes it is sold that way."

Scholtz, the lead author of a study in Obesity Surgery on postoperative complications in 37 patients, adds that suicides right after surgery go up. "You have to prepare people to have realistic expectations. The benefits are primarily for their physical health, diabetes and blood pressure, but not body image. Obesity surgery is good for certain people. But they need the right follow-up and support."

Around the country, patients have similar difficulties. At the MSN online gastric bypass support group, "Calavandrial", from Hull, had an operation five months ago and has lost 4st. But she feels thatshe is getting a "raw deal in the postoperative phase", and adds: "I'd have liked some counselling for my 'inner food fiend'. My doctor refuses to support what he calls 'experimental surgery' and my surgeon has retired with no replacement. To say this situation is getting me down is putting it mildly."

In similar vein, "Stamperlou", on the Mini-Mins support forum, reports: "The surgeon gave me a card for a support group on the web that I could never access and a flyer for some group meetings that were held 20 miles away."

Complaints such as this are particularly disturbing in the light of research underlining the importance of postoperative support. A report last year in Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases says that support groups can make a significant impact on weight loss, especially after six months when the rate of loss from surgery normally begins to decline.

But no matter whether support is given or not, there is strong evidence that unless patients are properly screened, long-term failure rates are far higher than surgeons tend to admit. In a study of 317 gastric-banding patients, by the Hôpital du Chablais, in Switzerland, investigators found that, after seven years less than half the operations could be called a success. The 2006 study, in Obesity Surgery, concluded that gastric banding "should no longer be considered as the procedure of choice for obesity. Until reliable selection criteria for patients at low risk for long-term complications are developed, other longer-lasting procedures should be used."

Backlog of 60,000 patients, say doctors

This caution has fallen on deaf ears. Now that bariatric surgery has been approved as effective by NICE, NHS primary-care commissioning groups have an obligation to fund it. And enthusiastic proponents want to see many more operations as soon as possible. The British Obesity Surgery Society, for example, claims that there is a backlog of about 60,000 patients needing a gastric bypass - and more NHS surgical training and resources are needed to catch up.

The British Obesity Surgery Patients Association describes the growth rate in NHS-funded bariatric surgery operations as "woefully inadequate". But given the psychiatric evidence, it may be wiser to consider carefully the long-term emotional fallout from all these operations - and to develop effective ways of preventing it before weighing in with even more.

Weightloss surgery - the facts

In the 1950s, doctors in America reslised that ulcer patients and cancer survivors often shed pounds after having parts of their stomachs removed.

Surgeons in Minnesota began to experiment with operations that were designed solely for weight loss. Their early approaches have been abandoned because they proved too risky, but refinements have led to the most common weight-loss surgery techniques - gastric bypass and gastric banding.

The gastric bypass

The Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, or gastric bypass for short, includes stapling off a golfball-sized pouch from the rest of the stomach. The small intestines are re-routed so that food no longer passes through the upper portion of the gut. Patients can't eat as much because their stomachs are smaller, and fewer calories are absorbed because food doesn't remain in the intestines for as long.

Gastric banding

Weight loss is less rapid with this reversible procedure. An adjustable silicone band is fitted around the upper part of the stomach to create a pouch. This fills quickly with food, which passes slowly into the rest of the stomach. Patients can eat only small meals and they feel fuller sooner. The band can be tightened or loosened by injecting or removing fluid from a balloon on its inside surface. Injecting fluid tightens the band; removing fluid loosens it. Both procedures are done through an access port under the skin.

Other types of operation

Other versions of bariatric surgery are carried out sparingly, including operations to staple the stomach or to remove a large portion permanently (sleeve gastrectomy).

Risks

Some are common to any surgery, such as infections or blood clots in the lungs. Others - including bowel obstructions and leaks in the new connections - are related directly to gastric bypass surgery.

Hide the form

Also in Health

Also in Life & Style

Explore Health

Expert Advice

Health Features

Mental Health

Alternative Medicine

Child Health

Health Club

Health comment

The pornography of child violence is turning the story of Baby P into a modern penny dreadful

More...

Janice Turner

Post a comment

Costa

2008-11-14T15:43:00.000Z

Is it bad when the woman who serves me knows my coffee order.
------------------

2008-11-09T16:29:00.001Z

Still trying to get blogger widget working on my dashboard

Apple Genius bar

2008-11-07T17:45:00.001Z

Off to the genius bar with Jeans Ipod touch. Didn't get satisfaction 2bh. Then again mood I was in probably pistols at dawn may have helped. After the brass I have pumped in to the apple coffers this last month I expected more. So we shall see. If I have to go back I shall demand satisfaction.
Amazing how smug they all seemed on my way out. Consoling myself with a pot of tea in the John Lewis espresso bar while the traffic settles.
------------------

Apple Genius bar

2008-11-07T17:23:00.000Z

Posthelwaites Lear

2008-11-07T13:59:00.001Z

The review in the guardian isn't sparkling. Think I am glad I haven't got tickets.
------------------

Reuters - BSkyB and Virgin Media settle channels dispute

2008-11-07T13:53:00.001Z

This article was sent to you from Ken.clare@blueyonder.co.uk, who uses Reuters Mobile Site to get news and information on the go. To access Reuters on your mobile phone, go to:
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com

BSkyB and Virgin Media settle channels dispute

Tuesday, Nov 04, 2008 4:34PM UTC

By Kate Holton

LONDON (Reuters) - BSkyB and Virgin Media have agreed a new deal to carry each others' basic channels, they said on Tuesday, following a highly public row in 2007.

BSkyB channels such as Sky News were taken off Virgin's cable platform last year after the two sides failed to reach an agreement over pricing in a public spat which dominated the headlines and angered many of Virgin's customers.

Shares in BSkyB were up 7.2 percent on the news and Virgin Media shares, which are listed in the U.S., were 17.3 percent higher at 1535 GMT.

"As part of the agreements, both Sky and Virgin Media have agreed to terminate all High Court proceedings against each other relating to the carriage of their respective basic channels," both groups said in the statement.

BSkyB and Virgin said the Sky basic channels would return to the cable service on November 13 and under a second agreement the Virgin Media TV basic channels such as Living and Bravo would continue on Sky.

The agreements include fixed annual carriage fees for the channels with both suppliers able to secure additional capped payments if their channels meet certain performance-related targets, they said.

"I believe this agreement represents a fair deal and is the right thing for our customers," said Virgin Media Chief Executive Neil Berkett.

"We recognise the quality and popularity of Sky's channels and look forward to welcoming them back to Virgin Media's TV service," he said. "We are also pleased to secure Sky's continued carriage of the VMTV channels until June 2011."

The BSkyB Chief Executive Jeremy Darroch said he was delighted to see the Sky channels returning to the Virgin Media platform.

(Reporting by Kate Holton; Editing by David Cowell)

Tea in Starbucks

2008-11-04T17:14:00.002Z

Bloomsbury Brunswick centre - cool.

Posh cake shop

2008-11-04T16:22:00.000Z

www.patisserie-valerie.co.uk

Most enjoyable.
Non disclosure agreement prevents discussing what I purchased.
------------------

HENRY

2008-11-04T12:57:00.000Z

http://www.henry.org.uk

Sounds like it is worth a look.
------------------

On my home.

2008-10-31T15:43:00.000Z

Therapy was intersting will be going back again.
------------------

On the train to therapy

2008-10-31T13:08:00.000Z

Quite literally. Going to Hartford for Human Givens Therapy. Sleep is still pants. Been to see my long suffering gp frank he agrees I am better. Start therapy and see him in two weeks. I got some blood sugar testing gear and sticks to see what's happening when I have these hypos.
------------------

2008-10-31T11:17:00.001Z

2008-10-31T01:24:00.001Z

Now I have bought a macbook too. 13" screen old fashioned white but it is as far as budget would stretch.

2008-10-30T02:05:00.001Z

Blogging from my new mac book the laptop dream version of my mac world

2008-10-25T20:25:00.001+01:00

Going to see a chap from here on Friday
http://www.hgi.org.uk/index.htm

2008-10-24T19:37:00.001+01:00

Seyying up the iMac is a good mental challenge. Be glad when its done.
will get there

2008-10-24T10:35:00.001+01:00

Went out for a meal last night with Steve Terry and Tommy. Oh how we laughed.

2008-10-24T10:34:00.003+01:00

2008-10-24T10:34:00.001+01:00

The notice board.

2008-10-23T11:14:00.001+01:00

A harbinger of gloom. Breast cancer survivors victims of family suicide survivors. Bloody hell I fee worse.
------------------

Once again sat in the GP

2008-10-23T10:18:00.000+01:00

Back to where I have spent so much time in recent years. Waiting to go and see Frank. October is often bad for me its a busy month and I often feel a seasonal swing coming on me.
Yesterday email was up the pole. Blueyonder was down nationally, and I didn't seem to get much through the gravitas account. There is always the chance no one sent me anything but I prefer the technology is goosed explanation.
A questionairre from the receptionist about standards of service.
------------------

2008-10-22T20:53:00.001+01:00

I love my iMac and despite the steep learning curve it is fantastic

2008-10-22T02:31:00.001+01:00

Support group tonight at greenbank went well.They have a new coffee machine which is v. good. The suppliers are - double espresso good.
http://www.rijo42.co.uk/

2008-10-20T11:25:00.001+01:00

Working on the website.
Been to a maes mums funeral - nice service nice church.
Now grafting at the iMac

2008-10-20T02:09:00.003+01:00

Ally found my passport BTW. It was in her bedroom

2008-10-20T02:09:00.001+01:00

Want to stay up all night playing with the iMac is this a bad thing. Cant. got to go to a friends mothers funeral tomorrow am. Day off work.

IMG00183.jpg

2008-10-18T23:07:00.000+01:00

Dave and Maria at daves 40th party.
------------------

2008-10-17T12:25:00.001+01:00

There are men scraping the tarmac off the road outside. I was awoken at 9 to move the car- its a tough old life.

2008-10-16T11:53:00.001+01:00

Got to go see mum drop WLSinfo stuff there for storage. Then hotfoot to town to town to meet Ally. Then back here. Gym tomorrow I think.

2008-10-16T10:20:00.001+01:00

Just had an iChat conference with Conor live from Gravitas it was peachy. Got to go to mothers to drop stuff off then go to town to see Ally.
Busy Busy Busy.

2008-10-16T10:19:00.001+01:00

Now using a dashboard widget on my iMac to post this it is unbelievable. A steep learning curve but well worth the climb for sure.
I love the Mac.

IMG00180.jpg

2008-10-12T23:11:00.000+01:00

Fox at macdonalds
------------------

EMDR

2008-09-29T14:37:00.001+01:00

http://www.emdrassociation.org.uk/index.htm

Today I spoke to an EMDR therapist.

Ken

Flying home.

2008-08-29T19:03:00.000+01:00

Its been a great couple of days with the team from web integrations. They have really helped me focus on the work required to take the website forward and improve the quality of our content side. Bob Euan and Liz are a great team and it was a pleasure working with them. The hotel was primitive in the extreme. Redeemed mainly by the pleasant lady who served brekkie. Mobile phone and internet connection were pants. Still I enjoyed the rest. Looking forward to going home. 2 years today. Feels good. People who matter know what that means. Next week sees the 6 year anniversary of my bypass. Another big milestone. Planning another visit to gustav klimt tomorrow with dinner out. Sunday ruth and paul here so a busy weekend.
------------------

IMG00152.jpg

2008-08-27T16:18:00.000+01:00

Stonehaven the view from the ship inn.
------------------

Touch down Aberdeen

2008-08-27T15:11:00.000+01:00

If anything feeling a little hyper. Manchester airport better organised than the shitshed coach station named after john lennon. It was faster cheaper smoother more organised. Now sat in the back of the cab mobile for stonehaven. Reassured to see cab driver doesn't know where we are going either. Good to see Mick last night looking bronzied and refreshed from a week in Majorca. Anyway here for 2 days training with Pip by Bob and Liz on our new content management system Sitellite.
Got weighed yesterday down 2.6 pound so pleased with that. Now last 4 stone plus since starting me preop diet. Need to get back to the gym again.
------------------

Basin st Blues.

2008-08-25T17:20:00.000+01:00

Bank holiday and trying to get sleep hygiene sorted. Been going to bed to late and sleeping in. Been doing me no good. In to work tomorrow and off to Scotland on Wednesday. Come back Friday night. Going to revisit the Klimt exhibition before it closes on Sunday. Got plenty of wlsinfo and gravitas stuff to sort. Professional membership website content and gravitas website improvements to work on. All go. Looking forward to meeting bob and liz up at web integrations at stonehaven. No sat in costa listenin to willie nelson and wynton marsalis in costa. Trying to do some of the physical thing.
------------------

I saw a Venezuelan firefighter in Tesco.

2008-08-25T02:44:00.001+01:00

Assuming Caracas is in that country and Bomberos is the word for fire fighter. Must be part of the world fire fighter games.
------------------

Thursday am

2008-08-21T09:53:00.001+01:00

Up early. Legs achingl beyond belief. I guess yesterday I walked a helluva lot. And without crutches. Guess I am using muscles I didn't know I had after being in that plaster of paris.
------------------

Return of the banana splits

2008-08-18T22:11:00.000+01:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7567840.stm

complete with tune - wow

On the 86C

2008-08-14T15:34:00.001+01:00

Girls gone shopping. Me on the bus. Watching the world. Nearly home now.
------------------

Results lunch

2008-08-14T15:26:00.001+01:00

Just been to ill forino. For lunch delicious italian gaff in duke street it was recommended by Mick. I will be going there again.
------------------

A Levels

2008-08-14T11:07:00.000+01:00

Ally has excelled again. 4 A grades french english theology and general studies. We are extremely proud. Of that there is no doubt.
------------------

The royal

2008-08-14T11:04:00.000+01:00

Sat in fracture clinic waiting. What a pain in the bum. Had an xray which thanks to modern NHS IT was not done as a film but sent electronically to the clinic. The system prints me a chit to hand in and I hobble away. Intercepted by sister in clinic. Who looks accusingly and exclaims "is this yours. " Innocently I said yes - the name on the chit betrays me. I am not mrs patricia macintyre. I do though ask what she has and whether her prognosis is better than mine. Identity theft seems an option for a few minutes. In the meantime the A level news comes in.............
------------------

Trip to Stonehaven

2008-08-12T22:26:00.001+01:00

Going up to see our web hosts Bob and Liz at http://www.webintegrations.co.uk/

Going to stay at http://www.belvederestonehaven.co.uk/ and flying up on a http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/index.aspx plane from the land of manc.

Yet more complaints

2008-08-09T16:10:00.001+01:00

That I haven't been blogging. Truth is I have been mad busy. Was lecturing in Leeds. Came back busy at work. Busy on website doing my utmost to get all done even with a broken leg. Involved in two projects I had to sign non disclosure agreements about. So they remain secrets for now. All will come clear one day. Not that exciting really.
Ally gets a job with Liverpool PCT for the summer doing stuff based at Earle Road medical centre. Dublin based work takes up a lot of my efforts. Involved with the web space and radio advertising big time. I hate not being able to drive have to rely on Jean, Conor for work, and friends for meetings. Writing this for the museum conservation centre having just seen a great exhibition Stewart Bale photographs called Metropolis. Closes tomorrow and I was keen to catch it. Jeans birthday yesterday so a lot of birthday foccused activity. Yesterday saw debut of Sophia my great niece and goddaughters child. She is delightful pictures on flickr.
------------------

Lazy days

2008-08-03T11:52:00.001+01:00

------------------

First on MSN, GOOGLE, YAHOO

2008-08-02T06:29:00.000+01:00

"If your site is seen first on the search engines, you're the
one people will tend to contact. It's that simple."

Discover a better way to be seen on the major search engines.
A way that over 14,000 companies have already discovered.
Their sites are ALWAYS seen at the top of the major search
engines, WITHOUT the exorbitant pay per click charges.

With us, your site, and not a banner or link, is ALWAYS
seen first, with no pay per click hassle.

We can provide you this same advantage. This Network
is based on proven search toolbar technology with over
31.7 million downloads. For those who have downloaded
the WebMenu search toolbar, these clients are seen 100%
of the time at the top of the major search engines !!

Our usual placement goes for six months, but if you register
with us between now and Tuesday, we'll also give you an
additional six months at no extra cost. We offer guarantees,
including a money back guarantee. We will also include our
Click2Call service at NO additional cost, if you order today.

Ask about our free sponsored link program, which will be
included with your order if you order during our promotion.

I can be reached at my office, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Pacific time. Please feel free to call me.

Best regards,

Robert Sexton

Director of Business Development, StarPosition
Phone: 800.481.2979, ext 2001
Direct line: 949.215.0022

If you do not wish to receive future emails, simply reply to
this email with REMOVE in the subject line. Or, reply via
postal mail to the following address:

Customer Service
16787 Beach Boulevard, #742
Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Please allow three business days to be unsubscribed via the above link,
or ten business days if you reply via postal mail.

First on GOOGLE, YAHOO, MSN

2008-07-30T08:39:00.000+01:00

"If your site is seen first on the search engines, you're the
one people will tend to contact. It's that simple."

With us, your site, and not a banner or link, is ALWAYS
seen first, with no pay per click hassle.

We can provide you this same advantage. This Network
is based on proven search toolbar technology with over
31.6 million downloads. For those who have downloaded
the WebMenu search toolbar, these clients are seen 100%
of the time at the top of the major search engines !!

Ask about our sponsored link program, which is included
with your order!

Our usual placement goes for six months, but if you register
with us between now and Thursday, we'll also give you an
additional six months at no extra cost. We offer guarantees,
including a money back guarantee. We will also include our
Click2Call service at NO additional cost, if you order today.

I can be reached at my office, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Pacific time. Please feel free to call me.

Best regards,

Kathleen Daigle

Business Segment Analyst, StarPosition
Phone: 800.481.2979, ext 2003

If you do not wish to receive future emails, reply with REMOVE
in the subject line. Or, reply via postal mail to the following
address:

Customer Service
16787 Beach Boulevard, #742
Huntington Beach, CA 92647

Please allow three business days to be unsubscribed via the
email reply, or ten business days if you reply via postal mail.

Sprain my arse its fractured

2008-07-24T01:04:00.000+01:00

Broken leg. Feels crap can't drive hate it.
------------------

Tall ships from Radio City Tower

2008-07-24T01:01:00.000+01:00

------------------

We are a great uncle

2008-07-24T00:59:00.001+01:00

Baby sophie
------------------

The Pain The Pain

2008-07-11T11:22:00.002+01:00

It got worse overnight. I succumbed to going to Garston Hospital walkin centre.
I was triaged and told it was probably ligaments. Sent for x-ray and waiting a long time to be treated. Took a long time telling them all the meds I am on and my medical history.

Monday continued

2008-07-11T10:59:00.002+01:00

So after the art gallery (well recommended) we hobbled across St Georges plateau rather flashy pictureand tried to gain access to the heritage centre which sounds good but was shut.Bit more details there.
the rain was coming down so we limped across the road past the penny farthing (looks like its still a dive). Past the Royal court and along the side of st Johns. Looking for a brew/coffee and primarily a seat we end up in the met quarter. My foot is blooody killing me its swollen and painful but I hardly mention it. We toy with the idea of a rip to the walk in centre then but its late so I let the rest and the coffee do a bit. A small walk around the met quarter see 4 bananas then its over to the 08 shop and then into Liverpool 1. I am impressed. I take a mineral water in Debenhams cafe.
Eat in La Tasca then I am off a meeting.

Last night a friend made a request

2008-07-11T10:55:00.002+01:00

he wants to see more posts in the blog. He cant be bothered with Twitter, the pictures provide only minor diversion he wants something a bit more meaty to bite into at lunchtime. He works in the city centre in a very posh building in a lovely environment, one could suggest better uses of his lunchtime but who am I to judge.
Anyway I always say (like any good performer I dont do requests)- but with with a regular readership that can be counted on the fingers of Homer Simpsons right hand I have to keep them sweet.

Liverpool museums - Art in the Age of Steam - Walker Art Gallery exhibition

2008-07-07T23:22:00.000+01:00

Liverpool museums - Art in the Age of Steam - Walker Art Gallery exhibition This was on too.

Liverpool museums - Ben Johnson's Liverpool Cityscape 2008 and the World Panorama Series

2008-07-07T23:21:00.000+01:00

Liverpool museums - Ben Johnson's Liverpool Cityscape 2008 and the World Panorama Series Went to see this today. Very good

IMG00115.jpg

2008-07-04T00:18:00.000+01:00

My sprained ankle. Ouch.
------------------

Forbidden snack

2008-06-25T10:46:00.000+01:00

Been to the gym bought some snacks jane confiscated this dried fruit. Its all banned.

------------------

The Camera is out and so is the Sun

2008-06-21T10:36:00.005+01:00

Ally and I are off in pursuit of Superlambananas. We find some see our results On Flickr
I play with Geotagging on my blackberry. We enjoy some time with a good walk around the city.

Travel Insurance that includes cover for pre existing medical conditions and for those over 65 and 70.

2008-06-07T00:07:00.000+01:00

Travel Insurance that includes cover for pre existing medical conditions and for those over 65 and 70.
Might be useful

Homemade Cakes and Desserts Bakery in Liverpool

2008-06-06T18:27:00.000+01:00

Homemade Cakes and Desserts Bakery in Liverpool Went here tonight for some cakes.

ASO part 2

2008-06-03T12:20:00.000+01:00

Steven Cummins - Environment determinants of food purchases: inside and outside of the home.
------------------

ASO conference

2008-06-03T12:14:00.001+01:00

------------------

ASO

2008-06-03T12:14:00.000+01:00

Obesity and the built environment.
Awards - Denise Robertson. Metabolic cross talk between the colon and adipose tissue.
Catia Martins - the effects of exercise on appetite control.
Nick Cavill Building health:challenges and aopportunities.
Martin Birley. Health impact assessment in practice.
Amelia lake measuring the food environment.
------------------

ASO

2008-06-03T11:57:00.000+01:00

ASO conference

2008-06-03T11:52:00.000+01:00

------------------

Surgical Review Corporation

2008-05-26T12:30:00.000+01:00

Surgical Review Corporation
Interesting reading

ScouseVeg » The Egg Cafe - Newington Buildings, Liverpool

2008-05-10T23:34:00.000+01:00

ScouseVeg » The Egg Cafe - Newington Buildings, Liverpool

Road to Revision

2008-04-27T12:47:00.001+01:00

Its been a long slow journal my weight log diligently kept till I really started gaining shows a interesting journey. I can support this with pictures too. No doubt my blog tells some of the truth too. I lost 16 stone in year one. I became an exercise junkie. I loved it< and fully embraced a complete lifestyle change. It seemed the more I did the more I could eat and the more I would lose weight. The next stone in about the same period. The following year an acute obstruction, peritonitis and pneumonia took me down to 15 something. I didn’t look good. They put me on a diet to build me up. After two years of eat less being my mantra they started to chant eat more eat more. I can remember being in hospital being ravenous and eating what I wanted (with the staffs permission). M&S trifles became a firm favourite. I had dumped a handful of times in year one, but sadly no more.
My mental health which has never been great rumbled along in various stages. I had a hypomanic episode in year one followed by a depressive episode. A diagnosis of Bi-polar followed swiftly, I was reluctant to accept this initially and did so at my peril. I eventually became 100% compliant on medication. Anti depressants and sodium valproate. I was to suffer the effects of the black dog of depression on several occasions since and live aware it may be round the corner.
I tried to get back into exercise with some success, its positive virtues made sense, it did lift my mood if I could be bothered to get there.
I turned to increased amounts of alcohol, for its pharmacotherapeutic effect and paid scant regard to its calorific value. As a positive, my passion for malt whiskey which I had abandoned before my op never returned.
My full time employment ceased I felt blessed to be pensioned off due to ill health. My mental health was making working at senior manager level in a high stress environment unsustainable. I got a new post at a very junior admin level part time giving me all the positive virtues of work with none of the downsides.
In March 2006 I suffered a fit, later to be diagnosed as the first sign of a sub arachnoid haemorrhage, I underwent minimally invasive neuro surgery, and was back at home before I knew what had happened. I lost my driving licence and I was constantly fatigued and plagued with severe headaches. I took the maximum dose of pain killers ranging from paracetamol, through codeine to tramadol. Alcohol seemed to help my sleep pattern, though looking back that was an illusion.
I was officially told to put my feet up and not to exert myself – for once advice from professionals which I complied with 100%.
I was angry, why had this happened to me? What had I done to deserve this. I tried as ever in my life to rebel, to do the opposite of best advice. I thought I knew what was good for me.
It took five months to come to my senses, I had little insight into the mess I was in. My mental health tetered, my personality under went changes. I was supported admirably over this couple of years by a clinical psychologist who helped me learn.
I decided to stop drinking in August 2006 and sought help from several agencies, friends, and professionals to help extract me from one part of my situation. In check date I underwent a weeks management in the neuro unit to treat my headaches. It involved cessation of all painkillers, intravenous infusions and caffeine free diet. It worked despite my scepticism.
My spiritual health has been a factor in this journey. I have been a Christian since 1990 and have had three dalliances with organised Churches and 1 fellowhip. My belief and values are stronger than ever, though still I am far from perfect and see myself as a work in progress. I believe that good works and deeds will help oneself often more than who you help and it continues to be part of things.
My self esteem (a lifelong problem) remains in a buoyant state. I often feel that I have a switch with only two settings – full on and full off. If I join a club I want to be a big part, achieve great things. I have traditionally found long term commitment impossible I set up WLSinfo with a plan to withdraw after 6 months and maybe I am changing for the better in that I continue to commit. I don’t know all the answers in fact I think I know less now than when I started, but life feels a whole lot better today than it has for a long time.
I have just got up to review this, count words and make a cup of tea. There seems to be a major omission. Apart from passing reference to trifle food doesn’t seem to get a mention. Thats unfair it obviously played a major part of the picture of regain. My omission, or initial denial is something I have often seen in fellow suffers from obesity. Even some less enlightened Health care professionals sneer at the 34 stone patient who claims to survive on lettuce. I believe at my biggest my inability to discuss this was through self disgust and even a disbelief that I could do such injurious things to myself. I believe those feelings are compounded by being a health care professional and by having lost the weight once before. I have heard talk about the slimmer of the year syndrome, where successful dieters gain the weight. The spotlight of exposure and the media make it worse, and in February I turned down a TV appearance because of my appearance. Even the action of sitting at the front of a group or on a stage can put pressures on.
I have heard an eminent professor say we are all obesophobic and harbour negative attitudes to fat and fat people. That applies even to obesity professionals and extends to patients (even the ex obese) themselves.
I have faced some hard harsh comments about my weight and have tried to deal with them honestly and openly. Some still hurt.
Even now I continue to prevaricate my portion sizes grew exponentially. I could devour a three course meal, or a complete fish and chip supper though feel full. My passion for cakes and sweet things had exploded. In the last few months I could open a packet of biscuits and not stop till the last had gone and I had eaten a days food, and full knew each morsels calorific content. I know what its like to full disgust afterwards too. To eat so fast I would be looking for leftovers, to make special stops on the way home from work.
Buying new bigger clothes became a nightmare, I remember the delight when I started shopping at the normal shops after my first op, but felt it more deeply when forced back to my old internet suppliers. Fortunately friends helped in this situation.
It became a spiral put on weight feel crap eat more put on weight feel crap. Fortunately I had continuous after care and was being monitored. I needed help.

Post op man

2008-04-03T22:47:00.001+01:00

My Belly afterwards - note the fetching ventilating gastrostomy tube

Preop Man

2008-04-03T22:37:00.001+01:00

Apple - iPod touch My new purchase

2008-04-03T21:58:00.000+01:00

Apple - iPod touch It is a dream. bit miffed I had to buy 12 quids worth of software and a case. They were out of stock on the 8gig so I had to buy the 16gig - shame

Waiting for Ally

2008-03-28T01:57:00.001Z

First night at work for the girl. Finds me sat outside the echo arena.
------------------

PureText Home Page

2008-03-20T11:19:00.000Z

PureText Home Page

Bariatric Surgery ?? BPD?? Sub-Arachnoid?? what are they all about?

please treat as urgent

Saturday

Off to Mums.

Day 3 still going

This is the best side

Blogsy test here I go again. This is gobblede took to test things. As usual I have tested nowt.

Water water everywhere - Day 2

Is anybody out there.

Brochure- Gravitas Ltd

Shareaholic for Google Chrome - The best browser add-on extension to share, tweet, bookmark, save and e-mail web pages quickly

Weekend, 04 Apr 2009. Pages 14 - 15

Saturday

Away

Twitter

Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Edmonton Obesity Staging System

Setting up snap shooting mode on the G9 « LifeSpy with a G9

Oscar the Hamster

"It's About Time Products" - Learn the iPhone 3G® - Learn the Switch to Mac® - "It's About Time to Learn the Switch to Mac®"

In a caff

King-Size Homer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

King-Size Homer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents

[edit] Plot

[edit] Production

[edit] Cultural references

[edit] Reception

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Views

Personal tools

Navigation

Search

Interaction

Toolbox

Languages

The psychological effects of gastric bands and stomach stapling - Times Online

Navigation - link to other main sections from here

The psychological effects of gastric bands and stomach stapling

Slimming by surgical procedures are increasingly popular but the underlying emotional problems are harder to shed than the pounds

Have your say

Also in Health

Also in Life & Style

Explore Health

the archive blog

Health comment

Most Read

Costa

Apple Genius bar

Apple Genius bar

Posthelwaites Lear

Reuters - BSkyB and Virgin Media settle channels dispute

Tea in Starbucks

Posh cake shop

HENRY

On my home.

On the train to therapy

The notice board.

Once again sat in the GP

IMG00183.jpg

IMG00180.jpg

EMDR

Flying home.

IMG00152.jpg

Touch down Aberdeen

Basin st Blues.

I saw a Venezuelan firefighter in Tesco.

Thursday am

Return of the banana splits

On the 86C

Results lunch

A Levels

The royal

Trip to Stonehaven

Yet more complaints

Lazy days

First on MSN, GOOGLE, YAHOO

First on GOOGLE, YAHOO, MSN

Sprain my arse its fractured