Random Poll o' the Week: Believe it or not?

like above... I believe the surgery will work for me, but it has taken a lot of work to even START believing I will work for it

Failure is NOT an option. Period.

WLS absolutely worked for me - I shifted 120lbs in just under 7 months.  

Now it *helps* me work for me ...    I have no doubt that if I wasn't now working with it, I could regain a considerable amount of weight as well as lose my currently healthy state!

I didn't believe it at first. Logically I knew it would, but in my head, for whatever reason, my rationality refused to work and I thought it wouldn't. Now I've list about 60 lbs since surgery and I KNOW it'll work for me, but like it stated above, I gotta put some effort into it too. I work out almost everyday and eat right. So far, it is working!

 I hope and pray that it will work for me. I see the surgeon again on June 12 to get my date. I am scared and excited all at the same time. 

I knew I was going to lose weight with RNY, however, my biggest fear is regaining the weight. Will it work for me??? I don't know.

If the guy I am currently dating ends up being "the one" (and I truely in my heart, believe he is) then it has already worked for me. I know, I know...but honestly I don't think we would be together if I hadn't had the surgery to lose the weight. I look at pictures of myself at 350lbs and *I* am disgusted with how I look, and I'm not shocked I wasn't dating.

If I can maintain, that will mean that it is continuing to work for me.

At about 6 months out I was talking to my surgeon and I told him that I rarely got hungry and he told me that if a patient can say they aren't hungry then he knows the surgery has worked, that was the best he would hope for.
It took me a while to figure this out.  WLS has it's place and it's place is to assist me to do what I need to do to lose weight and hopefully keep it off long term.  It's place isn't to lose all the weight by it's self and certainly won't help me keep it off if I don't do my part.  As I have said before, I can have a whole tool box full of tools but if I never use them then they are useless.  It's like I am getting ready to join the community center down the street to use their gym and pool but just because I have a membership doesn't mean I will actually use it.  I have to get off my butt and do the work.

WLS did work for me.  It took the weight off.  Now the work is on me, and some days it's easier to do the work than others.  In the longterm, if I end up regaining a significant amount (I already did regain 35 lbs, but have lost it again), WLS hasn't failed me, I've failed me.

So far it has worked for me, but I have 67 lbs more that I would like to lose and 9 months of malabsorption left. I haven't been able to exercise as much as I would like (bad knee), so my loss has been slow but steady.