SarcasticGastric

It's interesting how high folks are placing will to succeed. I like the idea because it gives me a sense of control, but if will to succeed were sufficient, I wouldn't be having this surgery. If your biology is fighting you, I'm skeptical that your will to succeed is going to prevail. My understanding of the best research is that the surgery changes the weight that your body defends. If your body previously defended 400 lbs and now defends 280 lbs, getting to 200 lbs is going to be as difficult as losing and maintaining an 80 lb weight loss when you were 400 lbs. What weight will your body defend after surgery? No one knows. Research points to genetics playing a major influence on outcome. No one wants to hear that because it feels random and unfair, but that's pretty much life in a nutshell. Life isn't fair, all you can do is play the odds and hope for the best.