5 shakes and one meal a day....i'm about to scream

At 70 years old, you have surely dieted enough over the years to know that it doesn't work long term, and that one more effort is going to give you the same results that you have always gotten.  True? 

Surgery, on the other hand, gives you a much smaller stomach so that you WON'T be hungry like you are now.  It is SO much easier to control how much you eat when you can be satisfied with a small amount of food!  There is just no way that someone with a normal sized stomach can be satisfied and not hungry when only eating 1/2 - 1 C of food at a time (and much less for the first few months!)

Lora

You're 70.  Are you doing this for yourself or your kids?

You've lost weight on your own before....but haven't kept it off.  What makes you think it would be different this time?

I'm 63 ... Had surgery 5/14.  Best thing I've ever done.  You won't be hungry...believe me.

I am not sleeved but I wish I could say that none of those I know who are sleeved feel hunger! I have a good friend who feels awful hunger all the time, however she eats, whatever meds she takes.  But for the vast majority, hunger does go after a while. The ones who still feel hungry appear to be the exception.

At my age of 63, I know my body, I know my strengths/weaknesses/abilities.  You have had even longer than me to know yours! Your children may be worried for you having surgery and changing your body, but they are being rather patronising in telling you you can do this without surgery! I don't imagine you have been obese all your life and just accepted it until suddenly, one day, aged 70 you woke up and thought "I don't like being fat, I can't be bothered to diet so I will have major surgery!". (In the unlikely event it was like that, I agree with your children!!!)

Diets work. Weight goes. But for almost everyone that weight returns.

Do what is right for YOU.