Xpost: Need help deciding!
I totally understand your concerns and I think MOST of us had some of those SAME concerns post-op.
Let me try to explain what surgery did FOR ME.
RNY took away my PHYSICAL ability and DESIRE to eat and especially OVEREAT (binge). It did NOT take away my emotional attachment to food. I had to personally work on that and I continue to work on that every day.
There are days even STILL where I tell myself, "This would have been a binge day." I tell myself that it WOULD have been a binge day... as in it WOULD have been a binge day had it not been for my RNY. I do not have the ability to binge anymore.
I have also lost so much weight and I am physically so WELL now, that that makes it easier EMOTIONALLY to tell myself, "NO. We don't live that way anymore. We control food now. It does not control us."
The reason I PERSONALLY resorted to WLS and getting "cut up" is:
1) 98% of diets fail - if I could have succeeded with dieting alone... I would have done that - who wouldn't? Since only 2% of diets succeed longterm, resorting to WLS does not make me a failure or weak... it makes me realistic.
2) After the human body becomes obese, it works AGAINST losing the weight. To be specific, research shows that ghrelin (the hunger hormone) production INCREASES among dieting individuals. In other words, normal people who go on diets don't just think they are hungrier - their own body is really TELLING them that they are hungrier. So when a normal person goes on a diet, their body goes into overdrive (via over-producing the hunger hormone ghrelin) telling the dieting person to EAT EAT EAT!!! With the body working against a dieter in that way, it's no wonder that so many people "fall off the wagon" so to speak and that only 2% of diets succeed.
3) I had horrible acid reflux and precursors for esophagial cancer (which has an extremely high mortality rate). RNY cures acid relux. Dieting and weight loss would NOT have cured that. (I know that for me personally because I had acid relux extremely bad even when I was a CHILD and before I was OBESE. I have not had it even once since surgery.)
Let me try to explain what surgery did FOR ME.
RNY took away my PHYSICAL ability and DESIRE to eat and especially OVEREAT (binge). It did NOT take away my emotional attachment to food. I had to personally work on that and I continue to work on that every day.
There are days even STILL where I tell myself, "This would have been a binge day." I tell myself that it WOULD have been a binge day... as in it WOULD have been a binge day had it not been for my RNY. I do not have the ability to binge anymore.
I have also lost so much weight and I am physically so WELL now, that that makes it easier EMOTIONALLY to tell myself, "NO. We don't live that way anymore. We control food now. It does not control us."
The reason I PERSONALLY resorted to WLS and getting "cut up" is:
1) 98% of diets fail - if I could have succeeded with dieting alone... I would have done that - who wouldn't? Since only 2% of diets succeed longterm, resorting to WLS does not make me a failure or weak... it makes me realistic.
2) After the human body becomes obese, it works AGAINST losing the weight. To be specific, research shows that ghrelin (the hunger hormone) production INCREASES among dieting individuals. In other words, normal people who go on diets don't just think they are hungrier - their own body is really TELLING them that they are hungrier. So when a normal person goes on a diet, their body goes into overdrive (via over-producing the hunger hormone ghrelin) telling the dieting person to EAT EAT EAT!!! With the body working against a dieter in that way, it's no wonder that so many people "fall off the wagon" so to speak and that only 2% of diets succeed.
3) I had horrible acid reflux and precursors for esophagial cancer (which has an extremely high mortality rate). RNY cures acid relux. Dieting and weight loss would NOT have cured that. (I know that for me personally because I had acid relux extremely bad even when I was a CHILD and before I was OBESE. I have not had it even once since surgery.)
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