Chantal Sarault / Chantal Al-Refae / Foodie Beauty - Delusional drug fiend hamplanet mukbanger from Canada trying to be a glamorous online influencer. Pathological liar, huge bitch, narcissist, animal abuser

[I call shenanigans]

Can somebody with that many failing organs qualify for something like WLS? Ignoring her mentuhls, could someone that unhealthy get elective surgery? (I’m assuming WLS is elective).

So by controlling her diabetes by Monday, she means deleting everything health related and moving on as if nothing happened?

Yes, but not if it's the liver. Pre-op diet is about shrinking the liver by getting rid of all of the fat. A fatty liver is fragile and during WLS needs to be lifted as it stops access to the stomach. Lifting a fatty liver causes it to break, so no surgeon will operate on a patient with NAFLD. I've heard of folk having to do a liquid diet for 6 months simply because that's how long it took to reverse their fatty liver. No way in Hell will Chantal manage to shrink her liver

Diabetic nutritionists are bullshit. No, I'm serious. At least in Ontario, they want you to eat somewhere around 350-400 NET carbs per day. They're also obsessed with low-fat foods (e.g., skim milk) which have the highest amounts of sugar in them. Also, they tell people that maple syrup is fine to consume.

Unfortunately, that is pretty standard. The major Diabetes bodies in the UK and Australia (not sure about the US) still push high carbohydrates and low fat for diabetic patients. Some dieticians have accepted it should be the other way around, but as long as the national diabetes councils are pushing high carb/low fat, diabetes is going to remain the huge problem it is today.

I suspect she's just gotten, or is planning to get a new referral for a weightloss specialist... and just thinks that puts her on the list. She's been to a weightloss clinic before (lasted two visits from memory) and couldn't stick to the diet then. Maybe she thinks her prior referral will get her back to her list place in the queue, but if anything, it will make them go harder on her. It goes without saying that she's failed the pysch evaluation before she even gets there. It's pie in the sky, and not worth anyone getting MOTI over. Jaw wiring isn't an answer (even if they still do it), because there are ways around that for her. The quickest solution for her would be an Obera Balloon, but I have no clue if that is covered under the Canadian Health system. I believe it is under NHS in the UK, but I know it isn't under public health in Australia. It would be a very temporary solution for her to lose weight quickly, but once it gets removed (I think it's a 6 month maximum before it has to come out), it'll be party time again. I suspect if it was an option in Canada, she may well have already be offered it, because although expensive ($8000 in Australia), it's an easy insertion and removal that don't require a general anaesthesia.

The way she talks about ozempic like it's some magic weightloss bullet is so amusing. Even at 5% loss, she's not realising that is just 20lb (if we go by what she says she weighs). That's a drop in the bucket, and won't be enough to qualify her for WLS. Even that 5% comes off as part of the three pronged approach where diet and lifestyle changes are made with the medication.

Edit to add: A quick google (she's not worth more of my time than that), she could get an Obera Balloon inserted in Toronto for $9000. We know she "deserves" to get everything for free though, so she wouldn't even consider it.

 

[chesticle_udders]

Just for fun I looked up ozempic, and the possible side effects are horrendous. JUST STOP EATING!!!!

• Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer. Tell your health care provider if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, hoarseness, trouble swallowing, or shortness of breath. These may be symptoms of thyroid cancer. In studies with rodents, Ozempic® and medicines that work like Ozempic® caused thyroid tumors, including thyroid cancer. It is not known if Ozempic® will cause thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in people.
• inflammation of your pancreas (pancreatitis). Stop using Ozempic® and call your health care provider right away if you have severe pain in your stomach area (abdomen) that will not go away, with or without vomiting. You may feel the pain from your abdomen to your back.
• changes in vision. Tell your health care provider if you have changes in vision during treatment with Ozempic®.
• kidney problems (kidney failure). In people who have kidney problems, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting may cause a loss of fluids (dehydration), which may cause kidney problems to get worse. It is important for you to drink fluids to help reduce your chance of dehydration.
• serious allergic reactions. Stop using Ozempic® and get medical help right away if you have any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including itching, rash, or difficulty breathing.

 

[krazy orange cat]

The only hope for Chantal is JillyJuice. Hell, it's even a Poop Cult so she would fit right in.

 

[nutritionsituation]

People in her youtube comments keep telling her to "check into in-patient right away!"

Serious question: Is that even an option?
Is there some Canadian adult fat camp/hospital she can just "check in" to live for few months and have her food restricted 24/7?

I've heard of "weight loss retreats" in Thailand, but they're just fancied-up yoga camps. And they're even kind of expensive for Thailand.

There are definitely higher end rehabs that would take Chantal, especially in the US, I just think they are cost prohibitive. They're not the sort of places that do payment arrangements, and they cost in the 6 figs sometimes. I think Chantal should look into Mexican bariatric medical tourism.. way more cost effective, and she has an interest in travel, and won't need to jump through the hoops of the Canadian system.

 

[DeeShmee]

How it works in Ontario is this
* GP refers to government funded bariatric surgery program
* the program sends you a information package
*you fill out the package, send it back. *You are then scheduled for info sessions. You must attend all of them.
*You go through months of appts with social workers, dieticians and psychologists and at the end they decide if you get approved. Part of being approved is losing some weight by following dieticians instructions.
You’re scheduled for the procedure which could be months from approval date.

So my kiwi farmer friends, Chantal will drop dead before she gets WLS.

It takes about a year from first referral to actual surgery and that was a pre- covid timeline.

Many hoops to jump through and follow up with for 3-5 years post surgery.

Sometimes if it’s to intervene in dire health or extreme mobility issues not losing weight ahead of time won’t disqualify someone.

The pre-surgery diet of mostly shakes and 1 small meal of greens a day for 2-3 weeks is not optional.

So yeah she might have her GP refer her quite quickly even, but whether she would attend each session before/after surgery is pretty much a solid no.

 

[DolphinLife]

She treats hospital ER visits like an outing. She comes back so gitty and refreshed and ready to talk about her loathsome journey of IVs, tests, blood work, diagnoses and stories about all the patients who have some issues of their own. She talks about them like an immature fucking idiot of a retard toddler. It’s not my fault you guise, it’s my illness’s fault. Mmmm, yeeeeaaahhhh, but you caused your illnesses. We shouldn’t find it too surprising that Clotso’s major concern is if she’s not stuffing her repulsive maw she won’t have any content. Spoken like someone who’s truly concerned with her failing health. Not. Even she admits in not so many words that she’s boring, has no hobbies, no interests, no friends, no boyfriend, no intellectual curiosity, no interest in the outside world, no sense of adventure, no insIght and a whole slew of other no’s. She’s gotten exactly what she deserved. Because she earned it.

 

[thenewclassic]

Yes, but not if it's the liver. Pre-op diet is about shrinking the liver by getting rid of all of the fat. A fatty liver is fragile and during WLS needs to be lifted as it stops access to the stomach. Lifting a fatty liver causes it to break, so no surgeon will operate on a patient with NAFLD. I've heard of folk having to do a liquid diet for 6 months simply because that's how long it took to reverse their fatty liver. No way in Hell will Chantal manage to shrink her liver

Unfortunately, that is pretty standard. The major Diabetes bodies in the UK and Australia (not sure about the US) still push high carbohydrates and low fat for diabetic patients. Some dieticians have accepted it should be the other way around, but as long as the national diabetes councils are pushing high carb/low fat, diabetes is going to remain the huge problem it is today.

That's so interesting to hear, I guess every doctor/surgeon is different. Maybe location too? Not sure. To my knowledge, the first thing they want to do is immediately operate on a person with NAFLD especially because there is currently no actual treatment for fatty liver other than weight loss. The reverse rate of NAFLD in obese patients after they get bariatric surgery (gastric bypass to be specific) is currently at 95%.

As for dietitians, I can't speak for other countries but based on the new information that keeps coming in for dietitians in the US, a low-fat diet isn't something that is looked up to anymore. Full fat everything and whole grains are what they are starting to push for. The once so often promoted food pyramid has changed drastically in the past couple of years. Also, I'd say Canada is really behind in obesity and how it should be treated based on the things we're reading from those who live there.

 

[I call shenanigans]

Just for fun I looked up ozempic, and the possible side effects are horrendous. JUST STOP EATING!!!!

• Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer. Tell your health care provider if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, hoarseness, trouble swallowing, or shortness of breath. These may be symptoms of thyroid cancer. In studies with rodents, Ozempic® and medicines that work like Ozempic® caused thyroid tumors, including thyroid cancer. It is not known if Ozempic® will cause thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in people.
• inflammation of your pancreas (pancreatitis). Stop using Ozempic® and call your health care provider right away if you have severe pain in your stomach area (abdomen) that will not go away, with or without vomiting. You may feel the pain from your abdomen to your back.
• changes in vision. Tell your health care provider if you have changes in vision during treatment with Ozempic®.
• kidney problems (kidney failure). In people who have kidney problems, diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting may cause a loss of fluids (dehydration), which may cause kidney problems to get worse. It is important for you to drink fluids to help reduce your chance of dehydration.
• serious allergic reactions. Stop using Ozempic® and get medical help right away if you have any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including itching, rash, or difficulty breathing.

I just happened to watch a video on Ozempic before looking at this thread and they were clear that while the warning is there for thyroid cancer, it was only in rodents. Supposedly the mechanism for this doesn't apply to humans, as the particular kind of thyroid cancer is extremely rare in humans. They also stated that the issues with eyesight only apply to patients who already have diabetic retinopathy, and this particular complication applies for any medication that results in a quick reduction in A1C. Supposedly this can be alieviated by a slowing of the A1C reduction through smaller doses. It's evidently been tested and believed to be the best of the GLP-1 antagonists on the market.

It's not usually the drug of first choice though, so I'm surprised her doctor would prescribe that before trying the much cheaper alternatives.

 

[DolphinLife]

5 years? Hmmm....she's not going to last that long. Her body is breaking down organ by organ, system by system.

What might scare her, is what scared me straight--developing double vision for several weeks.

Imagine trying to live your life day to day when you are walking around with double vision. It was frustrating, inconvenient and fucking scary. Once I got the sugar under control, my vision returned to normal.

How do you think Chantal would react if her vision got fucked up that way? Talk about a bitch slap of reality.

She might fall down those stairs in that luxury deluxe villa.

 

[L. Ron Hubbard's Cat]

It's not usually the drug of first choice though, so I'm surprised her doctor would prescribe that before trying the much cheaper alternatives.

If she has private insurance (this exists in Canada and is often used to offset prescription prices) and she has a history of non-compliance, a weekly shot might start to look appealing, even if it's not usually the first line treatment.

 

[frenchie pouteene]

She has not been and has no intention of going to see a bariatric surgeon. This is like the Mcdonalds video, she gets these fantasies in her head and when she is at the end of the road "in her head" (she has been at the end of the road quite along time) but in her delusions she thinks that WLS will fix it all and will be her only option. As most everyone here has stated she would not loose the required weight and she would def not pass the phyc evaluation. She can't commit to a diet for 1/2 a day let alone a month.

This is just her:

1. Looking for sympathy
2. The red wig was because her hair is so filthy and also she probably can't find her hair soot amongst all the shit, in the Luxury Apartment.
3. She is deflecting about the backlash from her "home cooked scratch kitchen vegan healthy take out" - It was made in a scratch kitchen godammit!
4. She dreams about WLS being the cure all for her and now and again she has this fantasy. She is going to show us, oh boy is she going to show us.

All she wants to do is eat shit, have 3 phones, 1 to record lives, the other to order uber eats while recording the lives and the other who fucking knows.

But she is a complete lost cause, she will never change and in 2 years time (if she is lucky to last that long) we will all be here discussing her latest lunacy.

 

[I call shenanigans]

If she has private insurance (this exists in Canada and is often used to offset prescription prices) and she has a history of non-compliance, a weekly shot might start to look appealing, even if it's not usually the first line treatment.

She did talk quite recently (a couple of months ago at most) about getting insurance to cover something like severe illness...I don't recall her wording. I can't imagine it would allow for pre-existing illness to be covered though as most insurers are onto that. Maybe she was deliberately delaying her diagnosis so it would be covered. If so, I can't see her getting away with it as her insurer would want her family doctors report, and there would definitely be prior blood glucose readings requested.

 

[Pudgy Bear Claws]

I know we'll never find out but I wonder why her doctor is supposedly starting her on Ozempic rather than Metformin, which is more common. She's touting the weight loss side effect but people lose weight with Metformin too and it's easier to take (pill vs. injection).

Edit: ninja'd by @I call shenanigans

 

[marjoram]

She did talk quite recently (a couple of months ago at most) about getting insurance to cover something like severe illness...I don't recall her wording. I can't imagine it would allow for pre-existing illness to be covered though as most insurers are onto that. Maybe she was deliberately delaying her diagnosis so it would be covered. If so, I can't see her getting away with it as her insurer would want her family doctors report, and there would definitely be prior blood glucose readings requested.

As I recall it she was gonna get LIFE insurance, which is it's own kind of hilarious.
I guess death could be considered a severe illness.

 

[Gonna Eat You]

LOL@people seriously thinking about her future having WLS in it, & telling us the pros & cons of that surgery.
Do you guys not know Cuntal by now? This is just part of her usual cycle.
She’ll be stuffing her gaping maw with McDonalds soon enough whilst telling us all to fuck off & not watch if we don’t like it.

 

[Smoovy Jay]

I believe she got life insurance (who the fuck knows why) and health insurance. Even though Canada has universal health care, things like prescriptions, dental and optometry aren't covered however many people get it through their work. Let's pretend Chantal is a functioning adult, she's self-employed and getting additional health insurance is just a smart thing for self-employed people to do. I did laugh when the idiot was upset because she just got the insurance but it didn't cover her prescription. I think she was too stupid to understand what a deductible is. The only thing she doesn't fail at is being stupid.

Why does she admit to her failures (in this case, poutine and pizza)? She could just not mention it and continue with the charade of eating healthy but no. I don't get it. I know she loves getting sympathy but more than being a smug bitch? Or is her mind so vapid, it's best not try to understand?

 

[BobLoblaw]

And, we're live...

 

[Gilles De La Tourette]

Slightly off topic of the weight-loss-or-not-weight-loss-surgery saga...

... Is this fucking Hi Marissa!!! name is in fact... MariSa?

Did she change her name at one point in time, and was at first a Marissa, or Chantal is just Chantal?
Do she really so fucking don't care that she missread the name of one of her more devoted fan (I guess she should have had a penis in order to hope to climb the social ladder of Chantal's Cour) for months
And is MariSa so flattered to have been noticed by the Reine Mère that she don't correct her own... name?

This can't be true but I would love to.
Please.

 

[Shaye]

And, we're live...

She just pulled a fake eyelash out of her medication bottle. I nearly threw up

 

[Kungfu Jim]

Don't know where you are, but that isn't the case around here. Lots of tiny Philippine nurses in the mix, and they're all (whatever their ethnicity) busting as on their shifts. There are some who could stand to lose some weight, but this kind of generalization isn't good.

I have to disagree. I work at my city’s biggest Trauma 3 hospital and literally 95% of nurses ARE overweight. Even more PL (sorry!) I work on a medical unit and the majority of nurses are more so at their computers adding notes and updates for their patients. Unless it’s time for med rounds or the occasional rapid response or code blue, a lot of CNA’s or aids bust their asses than nurses. BUT, that’s just my perspective at my hospital.