Just curious

Well, she's entitled to her opinion, but you are the one who has to live with the surgery.

Plus, what happens if you get RnY and you are one of the 40-60% who don't dump?

I think it's better to learn not turn to those foods than to rely on the surgery to keep you away. In fact, that makes the sleeve the one where you will have to learn new coping mechanisms, not the RnY. So her logic is faulty there.

It's very true that not all dump.  I am aware of that.  I'm sure she is also.  She is speaking from her experiences as therapy with eating issues and has many patients go through the surgeries. 

No, she still knows I have lots to learn with coping mechanisms. 

msg boards are hard sometimes as it's easy to simplify what we are trying to get across and not always easy to get across what we are trying to say.

Thank you everyone for all the info it is all good and stuff for me to consider before surgery.

I had RNY January 06 and at about 2 1/2 years I gained from about 183 to 207 ( i think that's about right). I KNOW I  gained weight because I got comfortable then lazy with just doing the right things. I stopped following the protein first rule. As soon as I noticed the weight  gain, I went back to basics and the weight fell off.

I just recently went in the hospital and was out of work for about 10 days. Again, I was eating a lot of carbs in the hospital, not following my routine of protein first and a 11 lb gain resulted in that behavior. I've been back on track since Sunday and 4 lbs. is gone. 


Will discipline and staying on top of your weight, you can do it!!

thanks Kay, that's why I'm trying to prepare for it all now.  Even though I have 6 months to go right now.  The no drinking with food is the hard part for me at the moment!  :) 

I had the Lap-band surgery almost 5 years ago. It has been fantastic for me. In the first year dropped 90 pounds and went from a size 22 to a size 6. I kept all of it off for another year befor getting pregnant.

I've been healthier and more engaged with life because of this surgery. What I love about this surgery is that I've never feel like there is a "honeymoon" perriod with the tool itself. The band stays there and the size of your stomach is never changed etc. Over the years you can add or remove saline as needed and it can keep working for you indefinitely. But it only keeps working if you keep working with it.

I've gained back about 20 pounds out of the 90 I lost initially but it was because of two things that are not the band's fault. The first is that I got pregnant with my second child about 2 years post-op and so I had the saline removed from my band. I gained more weight while pregnant than I would have liked and I've been fighting to get it back off for the past 2 years.

The second reason I've got the 20 pounds back right now is that I have not been following the rules these past 2 years while I've been trying to get off the baby weight. The band works best when you are really rigorous about not eating junk food or sweets because they slide right through. So in my case I've had trouble because I haven't been living up to my hal of the bargin.

All that said, I'm wearing a size 10 now instead of a 22 and I'm happier than I can say about that.

No one can help you to decide which surgery is right for you, because you know yourself best and most of us are happy with our own surgery choices and would recommend it to others.

I hope this helps!

-Elizabeth

Thanks Elizabeth.  I appreciate your input.  Congrats on the baby!