If that is the case then my god things have moved on in 10 years and no-one I or the wls group attached to a private hospital provider (BMI) I attend and help run would ever be contemplating a meal out at 7 days post op. If she is then she is an idiot but I suppose she thinks a hero. If they gifted it to her then well done Emma it cost me £13500 10 years ago and yes I paid it myself. Plus I had it done by the Fat Doctor Shaw Summers on TV so the best of the best. Add on £35,000+ for skin removal (arms, legs, tummy back neck) and you have done very well Mrs Drew. Lets see if you are just 10lbs heavier than your lowest weight in 10 years time. My lowest was 10st 7lbs and my god I worked at it but I hit every problem known to man but still I worked hard to get past it. 10 yrs on I have been up and down but I aim for 11 stone maybe plus 7-9lbs and I hit it 90% of the time.
If she had had the gastric bypass gifted then she has concealed the pre-op diet very well she has continually posted about meals out. I checked via our WLS network after seeing that post and to date no-one could tell me their experience was of not doing the pre-op diet for liver shrinkage. I only had time to ask 6 WLS surgeons but they all said no and gift a procedure they just didn't understand the cconcept. If this is true and it is not yet validated, then she is doing wls a mis-service. I am also unsure why a private provider would need to gift a low level influencer like her a procedure. My experience is that so many are refused by the NHS that they have a wide pool of folks who take on high levels of debt to get the procedure done. I know she is type 2 diabetic and would be a priority for NHS funding but only if she jumped through all the hoops. She doesn't as we know so did some provider think she would be a poster child for their provision? She will be in the first instance as a bypass should lower her diabetic problems but long term only maybe. This has actually shaken me a lot and yes it isn't proven yet however if this is true and she has been gifted this and didn't follow the usual pre-op path then I have to ask why?
If this all turns out to be true Emma Drew I am coming for you. I see so many well deserving folks get turned down and I am only too aware that many will never have the money to go private and are continually being turned down by the NHS. Believe me your 15.1K followers will pale into insignificance against my reach in the NHS. If its true buckle down and get it done and never waste a penny invested in you.