I am seriously thinking of having the VSG and am looking for the good, the bad and the ugly. I would like to find the patients that have had this surgery the longest, what the drawbacks are and how have they held their weight off.

I'm almost 23 months out, and while I am by far not the furthest out, I had maintained my weight loss for a year until pregnancy.

As for long term vets on here, go to the Member listing at the top, go to the "L" and look up the member named Luck.

I have maintained my loss by making best food choice, not grazing, and eating Protein first, but I do not diet. If I want potatoes, I eat potatoes. I am not strict with my intake of any particular foods, I eat what I want, just in smaller quantities.

I recommend you visiting obesityhelp.com as there is a VSG maintenance board with some 3-5 year out patients with longer term stats than mine.

Tiff, you said something about 4:1 protein vs carbs. Does that mean if you times the carbs by 4 it should be less than the protein?