Benefits of gastric bypass persist for 12 years

very interesting, thanks for sharing

Some of the suicides could be malabsorption of depression meds or needing a new revised prescription. I wonder if some was from reaction to loose skin? I'm not looking forward to it...?

One very real problem is that so many people blames their problems and issues on obesity. They decide that, if the obesity was gone, all of their problems and issues would also go away. That somehow, their lives would be some version of perfection. Or at least close to it.

Then they lose a tone of weight and find out that almost all of their non-health related issues are still there. Maybe they are still not in the sort of relationship they wanted. Or without children. They never got the job or promotion they thought was denied them because of obesity. All of those sorts of things.

Lost expectations can be emotionally very hard. The only thing we can really control after weight loss surgery is weighing less.

I get you. But I get them too. I was denied a promotion because of my weight. I'm sure it was because the other applicant was someone I knew and not as qualified as I was. Either it was my weight or the fact that I was a girl. Have recently had to turn down a job because of my weight when I actually saw what the job entailed I knew I couldn't do it. Hopefully they'll look at my application again in the future after I've lost some more weight. However, I do Blame A lot of my problems on weight. I don't blame them all on it. I don't expect my life to be perfect after I've lost weight but I know it'll be better... That's all we can ask, right?

The rates of long term weight regain in every published study I've seen so far are so depressing. It really is a lifelong struggle to keep the weight off and you basically have to be a vigilant unicorn to keep it all off long term. I am going to unicorn!

Yes, you have to be vigilant-- but even with the regain statistics, WLS still dramatically increases your odds of success.

Yes even with the wonderful, new advantages WLS offers us who've struggled so hard with obesity, vigilance is absolutely necessary. As is commitment. As is discipline.