CaptMarvelfangirl

I know this is a long shot and not normal by any means as I had ALOT of bad apples message and reach out to me. But I met the love of my life on Match. As with any online dating site be patient and ASK QUESTIONS. Lots and lots of questions.
I was not the online dating type but the dating scene now days is a joke honestly. So I took the chance and to thankful that I did.

Good luck to all! If its meant to be it will be don't rush into anything.

Don’t hold yourself back from living life to the fullest. I guarantee you your loose skin is a FAR bigger deal to you, than anyone you might meet.

Just make sure he's got other things to focus on! kwim? ?

There's reality only two options in my city which was sleeve or bypass RNY.
I did tons of research and decided on RNY for various reasons.
1. I wanted the Malabsorption aspect.
2. I wanted greater chance of fixing my diabetes which it did pretty quickly; was off all diabetes medications within a week of surgery.
3. I wanted the metabolic changes that came with the redirection of intestines because i believe my metabolism was so bad after decades of bad food choices.
4. I wanted the most restrictive procedure available and only wanted one surgery; most of my research showed many people being revised after sleeve surgery to bypass for many reasons.
I am very very happy but I've been very strict on myself from day 1.
Almost 5 months later and I'm down 126lbs from highest weight.
But everyone has their own preference and reasons to what surgery they like.

I know a lot of people who have had both. The sleeve seemed less intrusive to me. I didn't want vitamin malabsorption issues. My surgeon, who I really respect, recommends the sleeve to people like me who have never had GERD issues and don't have more than about 100 lbs. to lose. It's what I wanted and I'm 100% happy with the decision for me.
I completely respect everyone's personal decisions as valid for them and wish everyone success.

My surgeon had suggested bypass. I wanted sleeve. He had recommend it as it is malabsorption for life and that would achieve the greatest results he felt. I figured why change the plumbing and was willing to make the changes I needed. He said sleeve was fine as long as i remember that it was not malabosrption for life. After the one year checkup he said I was good and surpassed their expectation of my weight loss, I lost more than was expected from either surgery.