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Thanks dasloaf

Thanks Russ.

Same as above.  2+ years and no regrets.  I do wish that I had known more about food addiction and compulsive overeating before hand though.  Still, I wish I had done it sooner also.

Thanks Scott. Did you have a problem with food addiction/overeating afterwards?

I will say that reading/lurking/posting on the mens forum has helped me quite a bit.  I love having the man's perspective as compared to a woman's perspective (don't get me wrong, nothing against a woman's perspective, but as they say, "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus" - enough said about that.  It seems to me anyway, that the men are much more posititve in terms of their experiences and their success.  My experience on this forum has led me to believe that men do much better with the surgery than women do.  I don't know if it has to do with exercise or body mass (muscle versus fat in women/men), but I know I feel very positive about what I am fixing to do to my body on Feb. 28, 2008.  I look at how far out some of these guys are and I am completely amazed and flabergasted.  The before and after pictures - what can you say beside WOW.  I am so close to accomplishing something that seemed so insurmountable months ago.  I definitely don't feel alone as to how I felt for years, the guys stories and blogs have always kept me thinking positively - kind of like saying to myself "hang in there, look at how good these other guys look - you can look that good too".        Taz

+1000 That is exactly my feelings. Very well said Taz.

I'm only out about 8 months now but have no regrets.  Still a little nervous about longer term but using this "honeymoon period" to retrain myself and build some good habits. Brian

Thanks Brian.

I am only three weeks post-op and have already crossed the I would do it all over again line. I have no complicatons (Praise the Lord) and hope not to have any in the future.  Since I earnestly began this journey after Thanksgiving last year I have lost over 80 pounds.  I wear suits all the time and can no longer wear the ones I was wearing two months ago, even my olders suits are getting loose on me, all I have left are my college suits and then I will have to start buying new ones.  Friday I just walked (Doc won't let me jog yet) my first 5k.  Everything is getting better every week.  My three days in the hospital had some tough moments, but I would already do them again to get what I have so far. Before reading your post I just ate Sunday dinner.  With my family after church Sunday dinner has always been a huge meal.  As I began my meal in my plate in front of me was a 3.5 oz broiled piece of fish.  Now let me tell you if my wife had served me that before I got serious about weight loss for a Sunday dinner even double the amount of fish and all the bread, veggies, salad, and desert I would have been mad for such a lite Sunday dinner.  Can I tell you I am full and more than satisfied and I am still staring at 1 oz of fish (which by the was very good) and there is no way I could eat it.  I am so pumped about my wls surgery. Jason

Having had it only 6 weeks ago, I certainly can't vouch for the long-term view, but almost every GUY who I've ever heard of having it loves it.  Women do seem to have different views and issues, perhaps they have more unrealistic expectations. I'm down 75 lbs as of today from my 2007 pre-op peak in mid-late October.  I'm also getting over the little hump I had in the past couple of weeks -- just had to get used to solid foods.  No problems at all the last few days.  Already dropped from size 64 to size 60 pants, and they were tight 2 weeks ago, now are just right, probably too loose in a few more weeks.  I've got pants in EVERY size all the way down to 44's, so I'll be able to blow through my closets and storage and finally get rid of things.  I'm saving ONE pair of 64's for the photo some day when I reach goal, and the rest of the "fat clothes" go! Today for dinner, I had an entire turkey dinner in a SMALL cereal bowl, and couldn't even finish that -- a tablespoon of each thing, maybe two of turkey.  It was amazing, my 83 year old mother, who we have to nag to eat, has been eating bigger meals than I do now, and she gets to turn the tables and now yell at me to eat. Worst complication to date:  While I'm losing weight, my poor dog is packing on the pounds because he is getting the benefits of my anorexia, and I slip him all the stuff off my plate I should be eating, but just can't.  We've taken to calling him "blubberbutt" around here.  He'll hopefully run it off in the spring, he's still  young, only 2. And, I'm VERY happy to say, for the past few days, I've gone back to eating a LOT (well, relatively speaking, if you consider half a kiwi fruit a lot) of fruits and vegetables, with no trouble at all.  Also had some pasta the other night, which seems to be a problem for lots of people, and it was trouble-free.  I would be willing to give up a whole lot of other things before I'd give up my produce!