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Jeremy Kyle viewers slam the NHS for letting obese woman have £10K gastric sleeve op despite REJECTING therapy for her food addiction
JEREMY Kyle viewers slammed the NHS for letting an obese woman have a £10K gastric sleeve operation, despite rejecting their offer of psychological counselling for her food addiction.
Food addict Lucy was taken on the show but her boyfriend Idris, who said he was concerned that she was secretly snacking, binge eating and making herself throw up even after the life changing operation.
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The mum-of-two was offered the £10,000 gastric operation on the NHS to help her lose weight and managed to shift 10 stone - more than 50% of her body weight - following the successful surgery.
But her fiance sought Jeremy Kyle's help as he worried she was returning to her old ways.
He explained that Lucy could eat a whole roast dinner before ordering a Chinese and then vomiting the food up later.
Idris told Jeremy's researchers: "I care about how she's treating herself but she's letting herself go and I have to be honest.
"She's stopped caring about herself, we're not intimate any more and I believe the way she's eating she's going to get back to where she was.
Lucy, who acknowledged she had a problem, came on the show hoping to change her ways and willing to accept the advice of Jeremy and his team.
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She confessed to relying on food when she struggled with her emotions and said everything she arranged to do with her friends revolved around food.
Lucy said: "I just can't stop thinking about food, I don't know why.
"It makes me feel happy while I'm eating it but then afterwards I feel guilty."
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The situation was beginning to take a toll of the young couple's relationship as Idris admitted to not telling his fiancee that he loved her for the past 18 months.
Jeremy called on the help of the show's counsellor Graham who spoke to the mum-of-two about about her binge eating.
He said: "At the time of bariatric surgery they offered you psychological help and you said no to that. The biggest mistake ever.
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"The biggest mistake ever because there is a reason why people binge eat and if you don't deal with the emotional side of it then we end up where we are today.
"The surgery was successful but you never dealt with the cause and we're not sure of the exact cause of why people binge eat but we do know it is strongly linked with low mood, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and low confidence levels and people binge as a way of coping with those issues."
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Jeremy also chipped in commenting on the expense of the operation which was funded by the NHS.
He said: "There will be people watching this saying: 'You've had the operation but you haven't taken the other necessary step and you're in danger of throwing that back in peoples' faces'. Is that fair?
What is the difference between a gastric band, bypass and sleeve?
The three most widely used types of weight loss surgery are:
- Gastric band: where a band is used to reduce the stomach’s size, meaning you will feel full after eating a reduced amount of food
- Gastric bypass: where your digestive system is re-routed past stomach, so you digest less food and it takes less to make you feel full
- Sleeve gastrectomy: where some of the stomach is removed, to reduce the amount of food required to make you feel full
Graham rounded off by saying: "The NHS is a great organisation and they offered you what you absolutely needed in that situation.
"That is the psychological support to find out the reason why you are binge eating and if you had taken that up you would be in a more successful place than you are today."
Lucy listened to the expert advice and agreed to a term of counselling offered by the show.
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Some viewers however were unimpressed that a patient was able to accept the expensive surgery without agreeing to the accompanying counselling.
On person took to twitter to say: "They shouldn't even do the surgery if the patient refuses the counselling! So still not her fault! #jeremykyle."
While another added: "The NHS shouldn't pay for these surgeries until the [people] have had counselling for their food issues. #jeremykyle."
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