thebug

Thank you for sharing your experience --- it is very encouraging! I am actually an emotional eater, but only in that when i start --- and I always wait until i'm hungry --- I don't want to stop so I can end up eating enormous amounts. iI'm not a grazer, and I have about 100 pounds to lose. Being satisfied with small amounts of food sounds like my dream come true!

Thank you for getting back to me! I kind of have to go with this practice because they are the only ones covered by my insurance. I guess what I have to do is research until I'm confident enough to say, well this is what I want and if you disagree then too bad, cause i"m the customer!

Hi all ! I just had my first consult at the wt loss center ---- I went in thinking that if I had surgery at all it would be the band, mostly because I really don't like the idea of cutting stuff away permanently; and everyone there (the surgeon, the nurse, the insurance person) were all like, you should get the gastric sleeve, we see people with the sleeve really having the most success... The nurse had had a lap-band and she told me that it didn't really work for her, she was still hungry a lot, she still had cravings, she was regaining weight... if she could do it again she would have had a sleeve instead and she was actually considering a conversion. The surgeon broke it down that with the band it helps you about 30% and you have to put in 70% of the effort, and with the sleeve it helps you 80% and you need 20% of the effort. I know that it's not magic and I'd be expecting to still have to work at it, but that really scared me that they were so unencouraging about it. I guess my question is, would you do it again if you had the choice?