My friend is 130 pounds overweight. She is in the morbidly obese category. She has always been on the heavy side, but recently in the past 3 years she gained a lot more weight.

She is my best friend so we text all day everyday. I would never ever ever suggest on my own, but she complains constantly that she needs to lose weight, but can’t. It’s brought up every single day. She doesn’t want to diet, and tries to exercise but it’s really hard for her. I know how hard it is to lose weight, I have some weight to lose myself, so I definitely definitely empathize with her.

I looked into the gastric band myself, and I didn’t qualify because you have to be a certain amount overweight. Then it suddenly hit me, that this is really what my friend could use. It would help her lose weight, then once she starts seeing the pounds drop off, that will motivate her to maybe change her diet. Then it would be easier for her to exercise.

Please be aware, I am really not coming from a bad place i swear. I would never just straight up be like “hey, why don’t you get surgery?” I just mean the next time she complains she can’t lose weight (which will probably be later today or tomorrow) I might throw in that maybe she can look into that? Inreally do want to help her because she’s been trying to conceive for a while and she thinks she can’t because of her weight.