Seth

Don't want to rub it in but mid thirties and blue skies over here!!

Hi everyone I am due to be sleeved on Feb 19. Going through some pretty big ups and downs, fors and againsts! Did anyone else struggle with the permanency if this operation? Just wondering how others dealt with the thought. Thanks.

Agree lol...but I dont need to test drive the cars I am not interested in just because they are available lol

Thanks everyone some great insights into the process and my concerns. I too have been and up and down weight loss story and now with some other health concerns and a young son I want a long lasting change in my lifestyle. I am fairly sure the sleeve is the tool to help me get there too. Again many thanks for your advice and insights.

I don't get cravings so much (yet) and it is funny that my favourite thing pre-sleeve was Pasta and now I don't want it at all. I occassionally will have a little of someone else's Pasta (a spoonful) but then I am done. I am thinking that this is one of the biggest changes for me with the sleeve - no cravings and if I do indulge, it's so small an amount I don't sweat it
Seth - there were lots of times after surgery that I wondered why the hell I'd done this to myself. But that feeling does go, well it did for me and I am pretty sure for most people here. There are still times even now though where I think I'd like a massive serve of whatever - you don't get that sense of satisfaction from food that I got (all the time, which was my problem lol). When I eat now, I enjoy what I eat but it's different. Before, I was already thinking about my next meal before I finished the one I was eating - now, I honestly couldn't care less. In fact, I find it easier not to eat than to force myself to eat something at a meal time. If I don't force myself I get really shaky and a nasty headache (like I have now - stupid to miss breakfast), so it can be a bit of a catch 22. But as someone who lived with constant hunger and food obsessions, the pemanency of this was brilliant for me. I can't in good conscience recommend the surgery to anyone, given my own experience however will say that in spite of all that happened, now I am over all of it, I don't regret having the sleeve for a single second!!

Thanks everyone some great insights into the process and my concerns. I too have been and up and down weight loss story and now with some other health concerns and a young son I want a long lasting change in my lifestyle. I am fairly sure the sleeve is the tool to help me get there too. Again many thanks for your advice and insights.