I have been approved for surgery and am considering a date, but am having a hard time justifying cutting a perfectly healthy and functioning part of my body into pieces... I know the sleeve would certainly help me with my appetite control efforts, but I also think of all the people who HAVE to lose a body part or part of one b/c of cancer or disease and here I am CHOOSING to cut up my healthy stomach. Has anyone ever struggled with this? On one hand, it feels really wrong to do it and yet on the other hand, I know it would be a good thing for me otherwise I wouldn't have started looking into it? Do you think this is "cold feet" or is it perhaps not the best choice for me? Worried I won't get over this debate with my conscience and then regret it all. Any advice would be really welcome...

Oakley Girl......this is the exact same struggle I have battled..going back and forth with the whole 'how can i mutilate a perfectly healthy stomach'?...but then i thought about it..how healthy is my stomach really?...more often then not so many with food issues lay in bed feeling bloated and barely able to move from having overeaten....the hormones in this healthy' stomach make people hungry all day long and push them to binge.......and feeling so bloated and overwt makes most withdraw from social situations..photos....events..parties...jobs...vacations....etc......and when i put it all together like that i realize..hey...maybe my stomach isn't as healthy as i thought it was....now i think of this surgery more of a 'corrective surgery'.....it's actually a pretty simple surgery...all theyre doing in making your stomach smaller. and your new smaller stomach actually WILL be healthy. Besides...think about it..the reality is that if youre going to lose teh wt you want to lose you'll have to go on a strict restrictive diet--with without the sleeve---either ay-youll have to restrict--with the sleev though youll restrict without the hunger so it makes it so much easier....then...in about a year or 2 once youve settled in with it all and youre ready for maintenance....the added bonus is that your sleevd stomach will adjust with you as by then youll be eating the way a naturally thin person eats....You went thorugh all the hoops to get approved by insurance...and im sure u researched it beforehand.so obviously you want it....youre just getting scared..I totally get it...it's natural.....I say feel the fear and do it anyway!.....feel free to send me a msg privately anytime.....xo

Carol Watts - thank you for sharing - very encouraging!

I had the same thought. But then it dawned on me. This is not a perfectly healthy part of my body. It helps drive me to overeat and that was killing me slowly. And making what Life I had terrible at times due to health and physical issues.

So, now that I am 4 weeks out I can say emphatically I am glad to that piece of me is gone. It was doing more harm than good. Now it poses no problem.

You have to remember this is a means to an end and a form of prevent. I am perfectly health my labs read like a thin person. I also know that being morbidly obese this wont always be the case... if a person with cancer could have known that body part could have been removed or altered to prevent their cancer 10 yrs prior to the diagnoses they would im sure. This is a preventive choice love urself and the decision bc u cared enough to be proactive!!!