Does anyone regret their surgery?

When you are ready to make the change or changes, and are committed you will do it.  Make sure you are ready this is the key.  Is it hard, whichever direction you will follow.  Help is available to assist you.

I am more than two years past surgery and couldn't be more content.  Former insulin user by the way.  

I wish you the best.

Ken 

What I did was go through all the preliminaries of the surgery, which is a lot.  If while doing that you can stay on a 500 calorie diet and lose a chunk of weight, that would be your answer.  However, if you're like me, who has spent their whole life yo-yoing up and down from diets, always regaining what I lost and then some, you won't be able to do it.  I think it also depends on your age.  I was over 50 and past menopause.  Losing the 100-plus pounds I needed to was virtually impossible for me, especially since I couldn't exercise without being in pain because of my weight.  But I don't think I would have been open to it at a younger age, I always thought I could beat it.  Having the surgery, for me, was one of the best things I've ever done for myself.  There are many aspects that aren't pleasant...the two-week fast beforehand; the two-day hospital stay not feeling well at all; the initial feeling of "what the f%$#k did I just do to myself? and the dramatic change you have with food.

 However, I was ready to do something extreme that would work because I knew I couldn't do it myself any more.  I'm down 100-plus and have been maintaining that for the past year.  I feel and look better than I have in years.  I'm cherishing being, for the first time in my life, at "goal" and not taking for granted wearing the same size from one season to the next.  I don't think I could have done it without the surgery.   Having the gastric bypass surgery, my stomach is substantially smaller and is a huge aid in losing and keeping the weight off.  You still have to exercise and make healthy choices, there's never any getting around that, but doing so at a good body weight, having a "tool" that makes you feel full faster, being physically active, and feeling good about yourself all help enormously with motivation.  I never forget I can go back to what I was if I stop doing what got me here.  More than anything, vanity aside, how much better I now feel physically was worth the price I paid, by a long shot.  

Good luck with your decision. 

There's a whole board of people *****gret their surgery here.

Many of us did not get the results from dieting that we do post op.  Our bodies need a kick in the pants so they no longer work against us.

Have you researched a procedure called the Duodenal Switch? Even though you're a lightweight, the DS might be a better choice for you since you mention having diabetes. The DS works so very well in resolving (or preventing) diabetes that surgeons in Europe even do the intestinal part of the DS on NON-obese patients!

I actually did that from april 2013 to January 2014 and while I did lose a lot of weight in that time (160lbs)  I also starting having health issues, if I scraped myself the scars weren't healing and my hair started falling out and my skin got so dry from the malnutrition.  Now I've upped my calories from the 500 to 1100 to lose the weight that I gained back after being forced to get off of the strict diet and then drowning in a major depression episode, which I think has a lot to do with the flux in hormones from being so strict and then changing it drastically again.  Would I do it again, knowing what I know now?  Probably not, because this april would've been 2 years since I started and I could've lost all of my weight slower, but in the healthier way without all the health issues.  I think if you're not able to stick to a healthy amount of calories to lose weight, surgery is probably your best option, because even if it makes you eat a very low amount of calories at least you'll have a team of health professionals to monitor you and make sure you are the healthiest you can be.

You won't be able to maintain a diet like that pre-surgery.  After surgery, for the first year, you won't be able to eat more than that.  After about a year, you will have learned how to eat less and exercise more, so that even though you will be physically able to eat more, hopefully you will be smart in your choices and things will level out.  I had my surgery in 2011 and at this point I can physically eat pretty much normal size, but not huge, portions, but I've learned how to eat healthier and maintain my lower weight, but it takes effort. The first year after surgery is when you will lose the most.

Not possible or we would have all done it.  The surgery changes so much that I am not the same person when it comes to meals.  This procedure saved my life.  I lost hundreds of pounds over 15 years and ALWAYS my body said ...no ma'am gain it back now. This tool is amazing.  Don't mourn those ol' eating disorders that are worm -tongueing  you..  Make a break for happiness