This is overwhelming :)

You seem remarkably uninformed from your comments about the foods that RNY folks can eat.
Yes, I did start off with ground meats and refried beans, etc., but I can eat anything I want to eat
after my six years. 

Yes, she should get all the info she can, but MISinformation does a disservice, to not only her but
to you, in that it tends to create some distrust in any of your information.

Posts like yours really ****** me off!!  I am 6+ yrs out from RNY.  I can eat whatever I choose.  I have had no regain and couldnt be happier!!  Do a little more research.

Pablum??  Really??

I had RNY 5 weeks ago and I am doing great.  High blood pressure gone.....diabetes gone....high cholesterol gone........all meds I was taking gone. 

I dont know if RNY is right for you or not, but what convinced me is no other procedure has such a long track record of success.

Actually, the DS is scientifically proven to have much better long term weight loss and maintanence results.

What I mean is the track record for the RNY is so much larger because there are more RNY surgeries done to date than any other types of bypass.  

Well I have lived a bit of both the rny and ds lifestyles. While it doesn't happen to everyone, most RNYers devolop food intolerations, particularly with beef. WIth my DS I can tolerate everything, and I can actually eat enough volume and variety of foods to satisfy my mind, body and spirit with every meal. The cup of food that RNYers tend to eat isn't even an appetiezer for me. Do you want to eat 1000 or 3000 calories a day?

I want to eat 3000 calories a day.  How do think I got this way.

How is eating that many calories a day with the DS not going to catch up with you?

Because DSers malabsorb about 80-90% of the fat they eat.  Butter, cream, cheese anything high fat is basically a free food for us.  And that stays for life, not like the RNY where the body overcomes the slight malabsorbtion.  

And that is why I am going to have the DS! More real life eating. Or is it eating for life? I don't want to diet for the rest of my life.

Am curious...You say that butter, cream, and other high fat foods are basically free foods for you, but what about the affect that all the fat can have on your heart, your arteries and etc?