This might be a strange question. But is there an option that doesn't cut as much of the...

What is your concern with the standard operation?

What's your concern about the standard size?

once you're a year or more out, you'll most likely be able to eat more like a standard "light eater" than the couple of tablespoons of this & that like you do right after surgery. I doubt many people observing me eat would guess that I've had WLS (although it would have been really apparent the first few months post-surgery). I have plenty of naturally thin friends who are "light eaters" who eat about the same amount as I do. The days of half a large pizza or a fish fry with french fries, cole slaw, and a dinner roll are long over, but I can do a light meal for sure (e.g., last night I went out with friends to a restaurant and had a 4-oz grilled chicken breast, about a half cup of steamed broccoli, and a cup of ginger-carrot soup. I probably would have stuck to the chicken breast and broccoli if I was eating at home, but as an occasional restaurant meal, what I had was fine).

My advice is to get as " radical" a surgery as you possibly can- you see the equation is weighted against us. We are only meant to lose 50% of our excess weight... so scheme,scam, do what you have to do to get the surgery you need.,

What is your actual question? When you say "cut", do you mean "remove"? Or are you talking about the size/length of your sutures?

The VSG (Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy) and the DS (duodenal switch) remove part of your stomach. The RnY (Gastric Bypass) cuts your stomach also, but doesn't remove anything. You are then left with a "blind stomach" which I suppose could be reattached if medically necessary.

Personally, I had a near-total gastrectomy for other reasons. You'd never know it though which is why I'm wondering what you're most concerned about.

You're going to see lots of opinions here and it's your responsibility to make the best choice for you. The "radical" surgeries require pretty extensive vitamin supplementation for LIFE. If you know that you aren't apt to be compliant in medical stuff you'd better factor that into your decision. Your stomach will stretch again with time - hopefully not to the size it was preop but it will stretch. I'd be way more worried about vitamins than I would about the actual size of your stomach.

A common misconception is that you'll be eating like a little bird for the rest of your life.

I don't think any surgeon would "do a halfsie"'at a patients request. That sounds like a serious case of malpractice.

Mine did -and I do have a large pouch. From the beginning I was able to eat normal size "light" meals. I still eat normal size portions - but because they're not that dense calorically I maintain my weight pretty much.

I did regret asking for a larger pouch size literally days from my surgery when i realized it wasn't going to make that big a difference meal-size wise. Yep, I would have preferred the tablespoons- half cup meals.

I've heard people say that size doesn't matter.

LOL!! You?ll never hear an honest Grrl say that !