Fern lost weight due to diet and exercise. So what she had surgery and didn't say - it was still all her hard work. How would you feel if someone said CD was an "easy option". There is NO easy option when we're dieting. We still have to resist the voices and food and there are always threads on here from people who have succumbed - tell them (myself included) it is easy. I don't think any of us overeat because we were hungry and, whilst helping, not being hungry is not the be all and end all.
Would you come out and tell the world if you knew you would be slated for it? I would have thought this place would be the last place she'd've been slated. Everyone on here ought to understand what the woman has been through.
I am here because I feel it is my last chance before I have to have surgery too. Fern passed that point and did it in desperation - don't knock her for making a difficult and very, very brave decision.