Lap Band Users: More to Love?

Lap Band patients already have plenty of negative and “last straw” (as in “last straw that broke the camel’s back”) moments in their lives.

If you read any of the hundreds – if not thousands – of personal journals and Lap Band blogs, you will find many “last straw” moments that convinced the author the time was really, really at hand for that long-delayed visit to a Lap Band doctor.

These wretched moments include:

• Seeing your wedding pictures in which you are a 40 BMI bride.
• Seeing a vacation snapshot of yourself in a bathing suit
• Having to ask for a seat belt extension on a plane
• Getting stuck in an airline seat
• Getting stuck in a movie seat
• Breaking a chair at somebody’s home or in a restaurant
• Relating to “Shallow Hal”, a movie in which the very obese female love interest is embarrassed every possible way known to science

And now, if there’s not enough motivation, humiliation and last straws to drive more people to that lap band surgery appointment, another motivator is being added, in prime time. no less!

Presented for your viewing pleasure is More to Love, which premiered in late July; it’s yet another bachelor reality program with a twist – the characters could all have all been cast for a series about gastric bypass.

The bachelor, 300+ pound Luke Conley, meets and greets two dozen women introduced for his possible romantic pleasure. The potential love matches tip the scales from 180 to 280.

We know this because every time a candidate for mid-summer romance comes along, her weight is also flashed on the screen.

In the other Bachelor program, the dramatic tension that drives the series is fear of rejection.

The dramatic tension driving More to Love is fear of still more rejections.

The plus size dates are quick to shed tears and admit to “never having had a second date.” Fun, huh?

The rest is the same old, same old: a mansion, limos, tuxes, formal gowns and a drawn out elimination process that produces a sea of tears and will cause the phones of weight loss surgery doctors to ring off the hooks the next day.

Or will it? Tell us what you think!