What did you expect surgery to do for you?

I expected to make a healthy life change that'll last forever and lose weight in the process.

I expected to be transformed from the "Cinderella without the fairy godmother" who was slave to the evil stepmother and ugly stepsisters, to the "Cinderella with the fairy godmother" who wore glass slippers to a ball. I expected to find my Prince Charming and I expected to live happily ever after. Oh, damn, you weren't looking for the fairy tale version of weight loss expectations were you?

I expected to lose weight by eating less, develop a more normal relationship with food, get healthy, get moving, and become an active participant in my life. Check, check, check, and check. Expectations met, some exceeded, and some will always, always, always remain a work in progress.

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I expected it to :

-get me off all diabetic medicines
-allow me to control my sugars naturally
-control portion size


and the taboo

- I expected it to make me skinny the morning I woke up from surgery.   wishful thinking right! lol

 I am expecting the tool ( the Pouch) to help me with my new healthy lifestyle.
To introduce this to family and Friends as well. 
To walk, run, play with my kids. 
To take up one seat on the bus, also a great self esteem about me.
Add years to my life also, because the way I was going was not helping.
I just want to walk a couple block and don't need to sit for little to catch my breathe.
     

 Honestly, I am one of those that needed RNY versus any other type of WLS to break the sugar cycle.  Not because I thought I would dump, but because I did and still do assume I WILL dump if I eat sugars.

I don't eat them because of the THREAT of dumping, but it's still purely a choice I make daily to abstain.  With any other WLS I could still make that choice, but I probably would not be as successful without the assumption of dumping hanging over my head.

What I really expected it to do for me was give me time.  Time and motivation (through pain, dumping, etc) to reset my bad habits and relearn a new way of eating.

It has.  And I'm glad.

I expected the surgery to:

1.  Solve all of my financial problems.  And provide a personal assistant to pay all my bills and do all my paperwork.
2.  Make my house be immaculate, and stay that way.  Without my effort.
3.  Provide me with a personal chef, who creates delicious spa food for me 3 meals a day.
4.  Make me look like I'm 25.  (I'm 51.)

That about covers it.  

Oh!  And I want my own personal massage therapist, too.  That can be arranged, right?

 1.  Allow me to feel full on smaller amounts of food for an extended period of time;
 2.  Limit the production of ghrelin for at least a period of time so that I could actually lose my 110 pounds or so;
 3.  Assist me in resolving my pre-diabetes, mild sleep apnea, and alleviate the arthritis in my knees and neck.

I did want the surgery to assist me with sweets, and it has, since I do dump.  However, I didn't want to dump.  I wanted the limited ghrelin production to accomplish the task, since I know that nothing can actually make you stop eating something that you totally crave except you.  

I did do a lot of self searching before I had the surgery to make sure that I wasn't setting myself up for failure.  I needed to know my food issues...  and make sure that I didn't expect surgery to eliminate them, because I "got" that my food issues were in my head, not my stomach.   Since my food issues are related to a lack of self care, and not from emotional over eating, I've got a ways to go.