MikaC

Last couple weeks i have felt a lot bigger than usual. Like a lot more fat than usual on the stomach i am like wtf am i gaining more weight? But i check the scale and its the same as it was a couple weeks ago. almost 9 months out the weight loss slowed down dramatically. For the previous 30 days i have only lost maybe 3lb which sucks but it is what it is. I am taking my first flight since weight loss here in the next 2 weeks and i have always bought first class tickets because well coach seats are tiny and horrible for overweight people. Now i can fit in them and my wallet is so happy not to buy a first class ticket lol.

I think for me it's how extreme food tastes so different now. I've always had a sweet tooth, but now the smell of sweet stuff makes me nauseous. Salty things burn my mouth. I'm still trying to find a happy medium but I'll get there eventually.
Oh, and how hard it is to squeeze all of my medications in. I take a lot of pills for Migraines and seizures, add in the Vitamins and supplements needed and I vomit from them. I'm still working on spacing these out.

I was 59 when I had my surgery and had a BMI in the high 30s, so I was in a similar position. I also hesitated for the same reasons you mention.
As SpartanMaker said, nobody else can tell you whether you should or shouldn't have the surgery. I can tell you that, 3.5 years later, the improvement in my quality of life and overall physical and emotional well-being are tremendous. I have more energy than I did 20 years ago and have a new lease on life. Also, at this point I'm eating more or less normally (just smaller quantities and a healthier diet), and I don't feel I've sacrificed anything.
As you can tell, I haven't regretted my decision for a moment. I've said it often: my only regret is that I didn't do this decades earlier!

I am in my 60s. I just recently had a revision WLS. I will speak mainly about my first WLS since revision was made for other reasons. For the first few months, the post-op diet does feel like a sacrifice. Especially the liquid phase. Not actually physically since I had decreased hunger but more mentally, emotionally since eating was never really about physical hunger to me. After the first few months, things normalized. I was able to eat whatever I wanted, just a much smaller amount and social eating was pleasant again. Because of the rapid weightloss, and the positive feelings of losing weight, it was much easier for me to transition to a healthier diet naturally.

Was the the weight loss worth it and did it offset the sacrifice? Absolutely. I feel so much younger now being able to move as my body intended. Most health issues resolved too. I would do it again and again in a heartbeat.

I'm a newbie so maybe I am obsessing about nothing but I am about 2 weeks post-op and losing weight as expected. I'm not worried about the scale too much but I am so tired of the big middle I had and the thing is - it's still there!! The inches seem to be dropping everywhere EXCEPT my stomach. WTH? Is this normal? is the weight around your middle the last to go? This is depressing.

you'll lose fat from everywhere - just give it time...

Generally, it all depends where you carried your weight. You’ll lose weight all over but if you carried a lot in your tummy, this will take the longest to lose because you have more fat to lose there. If you carried more in your thighs & hips, this will be the area that seems to be the hardest to shift & will take longer to notice the difference.
It will happen, just give it time.

I had a trainer once describe losing weight as undressing. The first layer you put on is the last layer you take off. So most of us probably have had belly fat issues for a long while before we decide to have surgery, so that is likely the last place that'll start to give up it's excess.

6 months poat-Op and I still have a lot more to lose from the belly area. You do lose inches around it but damn it's slow. I have lost more from my breast and chest area than belly so even clothes fit weirdly 😂
I am just hoping by the end of the journey, my belly disappears for good or at least significantly smaller where it looks consistent with rest of my body.
I would call myself apple shaped so belly area was so significantly bigger.

Agree with others, it will decrease in size with time. You may eventually have areas that are still bigger even a year out, but a lot may be skin that can be minimized with good undergarments.