I was reading another forum last night and a woman just got back from a seminar with her bariatric doctors they told the people that the sleeve is great, but also said that after about the five year mark the restriction goes away and hunger is back all the way and most need to be re-sleeved!! Thoughts?

So I've been thinking about it all day, and have done some poking about a bit and some reading..

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/Obesity/40490

And I found this an interesting statement coming from a doctor at a bariatric conference...

“Doctors are constantly concerned with durability. The gastric sleeve gained instant popularity because it is quick and easy to master, and is a less difficult operation than a bypass,” said Dr. Coon. However, he stressed the need for surgeons to learn all of the facts, perform extensive prep work, and communicate effectively with each patient before deciding whether the sleeve gastrectomy is appropriate.

“With new surgeries, outcome is always hard to predict,” he said. “If five years from now it still seems to be a good operation, then it probably will continue — and then again it might fail. Regardless, people will continue to promote it or disagree with it.”

I think a wee bit of ignorance turned out to be bliss in my case, which is often true for me lol. I have awesome medical care, but I was never given a goal weight and was also never told how much I should expect to lose etc. Part of that may have been down to language barriers? But I am glad in some ways that I didn't know about the stuff that's come up now a couple years later, cos in the meantime I lost 100 lb cos that's what I thought I'd lose and I didn't think anything of it. I only started with all this reading and 5:2ing etc cos of going gluten free actually! But I'm so glad I did! I can see that regain is completely possible and I'm just not having it.

I almost never read these forums anymore. They are tedious and repetitive and full of misinformation. I am a few weeks from a year out and will post some pics at that point. I totally agree with my surgeon that most if what is posted is hearsay. I drink beer' date=' I drink wine, I eat anything I want. I don't always exercise. I taste desserts, dips, donuts, etc. I'm down about 85 lbs and continue to lose weight, though it has slowed. I have no fears of regain. My overall habits are very healthy now. I wear a size 6-8 and don't feel the need to be a size 0 or 2. Skin is an issue enough now.

Chill out.[/quote']

More power to you! Eating whatever I want got me morbidly obese and if I ate whatever I wanted now, I would be on my way back there. My reality is I have to weigh, measure, and track to stay at goal. It is worth it to me. I'm looking forward to 18 moths at goal in three weeks!

Lynda

I haven't read the whole thread but I would read these studies for information but not let it get you down. I am going to be mean here but there is going to be a percentage of people who are going to fail, either because they really did not understand what they got themselves into, or have a compulsion to eat constantly that is more psychological than physical, etc. I think if you weigh and measure you foods and have a reality based concept of what you are eating, then you will have developed habits that should keep you from regaining to obesity. Exercise is also key and I wonder how many of the failures are not moving at all. Just moderate exercise helps.

I almost never read these forums anymore. They are tedious and repetitive and full of misinformation. I am a few weeks from a year out and will post some pics at that point. I totally agree with my surgeon that most if what is posted is hearsay. I drink beer, I drink wine, I eat anything I want. I don't always exercise. I taste desserts, dips, donuts, etc. I'm down about 85 lbs and continue to lose weight, though it has slowed. I have no fears of regain. My overall habits are very healthy now. I wear a size 6-8 and don't feel the need to be a size 0 or 2. Skin is an issue enough now.

Chill out.

So you are 11 months out?? Please do pop in when you are 3, 5, and 10 years out.

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I'm editing this because I re-used the reported word and so my post got eaten along with the edit to the OP (Alex why couldn't you just edit that word out like you did on delta_girls post?)

Anyway, let's see how good my memory is...

I took your post to be like those old makeup ads that said "don't hate me because I'm beautiful" (how annoying right?)

Look no one is going to jump down your throat because you have glided through the last 11 months since your surgery. You eat what you want, you don't exercise, and you are happy not being a size 0. YAY!

If you can do this for the long haul, I would love to hear all about it.

I think we can safely say those are some pictures that most of us can give a **** about too....

More power to you! Eating whatever I want got me morbidly obese and if I ate whatever I wanted now' date=' I would be on my way back there. My reality is I have to weigh, measure, and track to stay at goal. It is worth it to me. I'm looking forward to 18 moths at goal in three weeks!

Lynda[/quote']

I agree with Lynda 100% I highly suggest you go through the veterans post and reevaluate your belief system. Do some research on the web. Right now your almost a year and that is still like the honeymoon phase. I'm almost 2 years out and I can eat a lot more food than before especially the cr** food. I hope you reevaluate and eat healthy foods.

Butter' date=' you just rock. Period.[/quote']

I wasn't too subtle was I?

I wasn't too subtle was I?

Nonsense. Subtlety is overrated. Sometimes a sledgehammer is the only effective tool!!

I wasn't too subtle was I?

I've seen enough of your over 3,000 posts to know that subtlety is just NOT your area of specialty. But that's all good. You call 'em how you see 'em!

I wasn't too subtle was I?

I love how you state things "right to the point ."

I almost never read these forums anymore. They are tedious and repetitive and full of misinformation. I am a few weeks from a year out and will post some pics at that point.

As long as you're sure that posting photos of yourself at 1 year out wouldn't be tedious, repetitive or confusing for the rest of us dumb souls who are apparently so easily entertained.

Sheesh, why bother posting with an opening sentence like that?? You can stay around and try to correct mis-information or chose to leave something that you clearly don't see as having any value. Same choice we all have... no one forces anyone to be here.

Put-downs are unnecessary.

Butter, did I miss something?

Alex edited deltas post and some comments after.. Actually at this point I would like if he would of taken everything she said down and following comments.. In my eyes she ruined a perfectly good thread.

Godwin's law.

Lynda

Godwin's law.

Lynda

Yes!!!!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law