To the Critics...

Just to clarify some things for the critics (probably the nicest term I can use there)...

My partner has not and will not pay for me surgery. What little I get in FTB is put towards paying that off.

I do Zumba three times a week (at home, using videos) and use weights and a resistance band probably 4-5 times a week in the evenings. I'm sorry my arms are not as skinny as you'd have hoped. Good thing I am doing this for myself, and not for you.

I do not spend all of my time at home - I am out of the house most of the weekend, and am also out of the house from 6.30am-5.30pm 3 days a week due to college. On the two weekdays I have home, I run errands and do assignments. I also do Zumba on these days (and 1 day a weekend as well).

My fringe and my personal style is really of no concern to you, but I suppose after I did manage to lose weight (after you were so adament I wouldn't), you've got little else to bitch about so cheap shots about that is about all you can think of. For what it's worth, my fringe is a pain in the arse and I'm eager to grow it out myself.

I am prettier than the girl who cracked onto my partner. If it wasn't so wrong, I'd post a photo of her to prove it. Anyone with eyes would agree I am more attractive. I rarely comment negatively on the looks of other women... but if some girl thinks she can tell my partner to leave me and go out with her instead, I have no problem pointing out the obvious - that she is delusional if she thinks he'd ever consider her when he's got me instead.

I may look like a man to you. A man in a bad wig, perhaps. That's fine if you think that. Saying it somewhere you know I'll likely find it says more about you than me, however. (Of course you knew I'd find it - I get so much traffic from your forum thanks to the fact you link to my blog, why would I not take a look to see why I'm getting so much traffic?).

My daughter is divine, and I adore her... and brag about her often. Of course I vent about her too - I'm pretty sure that's common for anyone with children though. It shows how much class you have to pick on a child though. Classy.

I must say, that I find it amusing that since you're all so certain I'm little more than an attention-seeking whore, you're the ones who direct the most traffic to my blog, and also who hunt me out all over the internet... thus giving me this supposedly much-craved attention more than anyone else. I wonder if you loathe me so much, why do you find me so interesting? Of  course, I expect you'll deny there's any interest in me... and yet, why discuss someone regularly if you have absolutely no interest in them?

I may not have gone about weight loss in a way you agreed with - but I never asked for you approval. This blog is not aimed at general public so much as people considering gastric sleeve surgery. It contains the things I wanted to read about when I was researching the procedure for myself (as well as the info I wanted post-op). My blood pressure has lowered dramatically, I have lost weight, and I am exercising and thus fitter than I was previously (would never go as far as to suggest I am fit though!)... so by all accounts, the sleeve has served it's purpose for me. I'm unsure as to why this has caused such negativity... but I suppose failure is what bitter scrags would prefer.

Thanks to all of the positive attention this blog has recieved though, and that I have recieved myself amongst those in the sleeving community. I hope that this blog has helped you, and I apologise for this particular post. I had wanted to avoid the topic on the blog itself, but decided I may as well respond to some of the accusations and hopefully it's answered a few questions for those of you who are not the types I've referred to above.