georgiaholt

@@SusinMichigan, thank you so much for your reply. Your candidness is refreshing. I have not had surgery and although I am approved for the VSG, something in my mind keeps bugging me and it's exactly what you pointed out.
The sleeve forces you to do what you could not do, maintain, or accomplish on your own. The question I keep asking myself is why...... I have been successful at losing 75 lbs and keeping it off for years. I wonder, had I paused and appreciated what I accomplished and sought therapy for my food addiction at that time, where would I be today? I really feel in my heart that I could have maintained my weight.
I looked awesome and I felt awesome. It felt amazing knowing I had accomplished this from eating 6 healthy meals and working out hard and consistently; but I didn't appreciate it and didn't feel like I deserved it, as odd as that sounds. I never addressed the mental aspects of this roller coaster ride of obesity and slowly but surely I began sabotaging myself and slipping back into old habits - and of course the weight came back with a vengeance.
I have been reading these threads for a couple of months and one minute I'm all for the surgery and then I read a story like yours and remember why I'm reluctant in the first place. Again, thank you for your honesty.

Yes, I am 6 weeks out and regret it every day. Thinking I should have tried harder with Atkins since that's what life basically is now. I don't like the stalls, it almost kills me to go 12 days without losing a single pound all while trying to drink 64 oz. of Fluid a day that I just about never get in. I'm lucky if I can get 350 calories in a day.
I don't enjoy eating anything it's a chore to do so. I eat by a timer, hell, I live by a timer these days. I have to take a cooler with me when I even run errands because there is something goofy going on that throws my entire body off whack. I'm always tired.
While I have lost 36.5 pounds since surgery, and am grateful for that, I have yet to have a single happy day. My stomach hurts with just about every meal I eat. I can slowly sip on bouillon and as long as it's only 4 oz. I can do okay. I can eat about 1 tablespoon of food at a sitting without severe chest through my back pain. About 30 of the 36.5 pounds came off in a week. Then there were 12 days with nothing ... not one pound lost. After that I've been losing maybe 1/4 or 1/2 of a pound a day when I have a loss. I think I might have made the wrong decision ... maybe I should have had RNY instead. My brother and friends all went that route, but I didn't want my insides all rerouted.
Think long and hard before you make this decision. It's not reversible and it's forever.

Hi everyone.. Got sleeved on monday 8/4...was hoping to get out on tuesday.. But i did my leak test and a portion of the contrast would not go down and stayed in my esophagus.... I ended up regurgitating the left over contrast through out the night and they are doing another round of GI Testing this morning...doc said he did endoscopy after surgery and saw nothing out of the ordinary..they are hoping it was just swelling in my throat and that the antibiotics i got thru the night will have helped..other than that i feel good...5 incisions.. Did all my walking.. No gas pains..i am just hoping to go home. The staff at Mercy Hospital have been amazing..i will keep you updated.