I can completely agree that this is Allan emotional game..post op it took me about six months to realize I had a problem...everyone around me kept telling me how great I looked.. Going into surgery I was squeezing into a size 26...but six months later I was a 16...I could never see a difference..I finally decided one day I needed to start therapy.. I worked on my eating disorders as well as my self image problems.i know this is going to be a long process..it took me a long time to get to the point were I was..each day I tell myself that I have gone so far and I deserve to be happy... Ha I guess when you look at all the facts...especially the ones they grill into you before your surgery takes place such as 80 percent of the people that have a spouse or campanion that go through the surgery with you ends up failing.. That's why this surgery is so important for the self..because you need to really evaluate whether or not you can answer some of the hardest questions of your life...and maybe do it alone