Will weight loss surgery work for me?

I feel like I've done every diet on the market.  I'm worried I will have surgery and still have the same issues lose then gain again.  Its a yo yo effect.  I'm also worried it won't even help me as I'm wondering if my body now has gotten so used to dieting that I will have to almost starve to lose weight.  Has anyone been where I am?  Have you had surgery and did it help you to loose weight?

I think most of us have had some of your concerns at one point or other prior to surgery.  You sound very confused.  I went with a bariatric practice that included the surgeon, nutritionist and a psychiatrist that all worked in conjunction with each other. Meeting with each of them helped alleviate my worries and helped to answer my questions.  Find yourself a good bariatric practice. It didn't cost anything for my preliminary meetings. I ended up getting the sleeve.  (Although they offered RNY as well).  They can help you determine which surgery is best for you.  I can tell you that the surgery worked for me, as I have lost 65 pounds in almost 6 months and I am very glad I had the surgery.  Good luck to you!  

Read all you can on this site, talk to endocrinologists and bariatric surgeons.  Investigate the various types of surgeries, (but for GAWDS sake don't do the band), and then make your decision.

I'm ten years out and it's the best thing I've ever done for myself.

I think everyone has the same doubts, but wls DOES work.  Is it simple?  Yes.  Is it easy?  Kinda.  But you've got to be motivated to be responsible to yourself for your health.

Do you want the chance?  

Hi Kerri,

I know the feeling. I tried every diet, pill, and plan out there to loose weight.

I lost 70lbs with the Lap Band and kept it off for 7 years. I had really bad reflex with the band, had to be unfilled, and gained back all the weight. I was then revised to the sleeve in March. Since the sleeve surgery, I have lost 29lbs. Thats within 6 weeks! Best decision ever!!

WLS is a tool and requires you to work. You have to work hard to follow the plan but if you do this, the weight will come off and stay off.  Many people will tell that WLS is the best thing that ever happened =]

The truth is, you can eat around ANY weight loss surgery and gain the weight back.  You have to be 100% committed to following the rules your surgeon gives you.  

Surgery does give you the "tool" of having a much smaller stomach, which means you can't eat too much at one meal.  If you follow the eating guidelines you are given, it works.  You will lose weight!  If you keep following the guidelines, you will keep it off too.  I am 5 years out and I am still within 5 pounds of my lowest weight.  I still measure everything I eat because I don't trust myself to eyeball the proper portion size.  I follow the rules and only eat the foods I need to stay healthy.  I'm one of the few that doesn't ever feel hungry.  I eat by the clock and only what I measure out.  You have to be willing to give up the crap food that made you obese and re-learn how to feed your body properly.  

Surgery does not stop you from eating a little bit, all day long (grazing) which will lead to weight gain.  It does not stop you from choosing the wrong foods to eat. They operate on our stomachs, not our brains.  It's up to us to do the "head stuff" and figure out why we became obese in the first place and make the changes so we never go back to that life.  Finding a therapist to be a part of your support team is really important.  The head stuff is the hardest part of the journey.  

I would have RNY again in a heart beat.  It saved my life.  Do I miss doughnuts?  Yes, but not so much that I would go back to 270 pounds to eat them.

Your absolutely correct I agree with everything you wrote.....I have read and heard lots of ppl say the would do it again. I have just started the process of my weight loss journey, I pray it will work for me....I have a good support group with my family and friends !!

Dieting too much does damage your metabolism, but RNY has been shown to have a resetting effect. When you eat less, your body becomes more efficient with the calories you feed it, but this does not happen after RNY. My friend was unable to lose weight on a medical diet of 900 calories a day after many years of dieting too much. Since her RNY two years ago, she lost all of her excess weight and is now a size 2. Weight loss surgery is the best chance to stop the yo yo cycle.

http://www.stonehearthnewsletters.com/obesity-chronic-diseas e-largely-biological-causes-cannot-cured-just-diet-exercise/ medical-errors/#sthash.OosYSMKg.dpbs

Actually, that DOES still happen after RNY.  Because of the many months of drastically decreased caloric intake post-op, ome people end up with a lowered metabolism than they had before surgery, which makes it harder to maintain the weight loss.

Lora

I imagine almost everyone on here has spent years failing to lose weight or losing it and failing to keep it off. Surgery is a last resort after years or decades of cyclical obesity. 

Unfortunately, no surgery is fail-safe.  All of them can allow people to eat round them. With them all, we can fail to lose weight. None of them, for example, stops us consuming liquid calories. Even byass only stops around 30-40% of people eating sugary foods.

But this board is full of pre-surgery " failures" who are now long term wls "successes".  Read widely, choose he surgery which is right for you, and your chances of losing weight and keeping it off are good. Surgery doesn't make it easy, but it makes it easier. 

Just wanted to share a link where you could do some research. https://asmbs.org/patients