surgery in a few weeks ? RNY

My 10 month anniversary is in 9 days! A year ago at this very time, I was making the go/no go decision on surgery. It was the right decision for me. I have lost 100 pounds, I'm at my goal weight, but I can tell you that at this time a year ago, I felt as though I could never lose another pound. WLS has been a game changer. I am just coming to grips with the long term changes necessary around the eating choices I make. (I watch the first video below as a reminder.)

Here are two sources of information concerning the questions you posed:

1--From National Inst of Health:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470459/

This is article is dense reading.

2-- More accessible is a presentation from this doctor. Let me say, this doctor is not my doctor, nor am I getting paid for pointing out his videos, I just find that they are a sound presentation to answer your questions. If anyone else has better overall description of what WLS is all about, please let me know about it.

http://drmatthewweiner.com/should-i-have-a-weight-loss-surgery-procedure/http://drmatthewweiner.com/should-i-have-a-weight-loss-surge ry-procedure/

http://drmatthewweiner.com/how-much-weight-will-i-lose-after-bariatric-surgery/http://drmatthewweiner.com/how-much-weight-will-i-lose-after -bariatric-surgery/

Best of luck with making this important decision.

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I'm going to assume you're in Ohio just because of your name :) I'm in Ohio too FYI. I was very very concerned with regain before the surgery. I'm only 7 months out from surgery so I can't reassure you there but I'm less worried now than I was then because I know that I have followed every single rule since the surgery. The point for the 12-18 months after surgery is to learn these rules and healthy lifestyle so if I can do it now and have the willpower to make the right choices - and A LOT of it IS willpower when I'm choosing between beef jerky and popcorn and can easily choose the popcorn because I know the beef jerky has less carbs and will keep me full longer - then I feel more confident I can do it long term.

Before the surgery I could not have done that. Or if I did it once I couldn't have replicated that choice multiple times. Now I make choices like that every day, many times without thinking.

I didn't have a 6 month waiting period because my insurance didn't cover it so I'm not going to say that it's bad you couldn't follow the pre=op diet. But I couldn't follow MY OWN diets so I'm not one to say anything about that anyway!

I'm very very hopeful that I am not one to have regain. But so far I don't regret anything.

OH and from my own research and more up to date studies I've seen the actual percentage of dumping is lower than what was reported for a while. I haven't dumped once in 7 months although I was super nervous about it.