Whoah!
You might think she's stupid but think of how desperate she must be feeling.
A gastric band is a serious life threatening operation (as with any surgery) and whilst we may not agree with her choices I don't feel we are qualified to call her amongst other things an idiot, stupid, etc
Think of all the people, especially after last night BBC 3 "When diets go wrong" who are going to be sitting with their lofty knowledge of CD now, calling us stupid, idiots, putting our health at risk etc
Its not nice when it happens to us, so I don't think it'll be nice for her either. I considered a gastric band at 15st 6 too, and like this lady was told that I didn't meet the weight criteria. Did I seriously consider coming away and putting on the weight? I have to say yes. Did it make me stupid? I don't know, but was I desperate? I would most certainly say so. I didn't even know CD existed and even if I did, having had years of "safe weight loss" criteria and "healthy diets" rammed down my gullet I'm not sure IF I would have even believed that. I tried CD and had every certainty of it failing, because everything else had. I was desperate.
At the end the day its a desperate person making a potentially wrong decision, thats why the NHS have criteria, as even after having met the weight target they still might not give her it.