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Do men end up with more sleeve capacity than women ? I assume that in general men's stomach are larger pre-op so would it follow that men's sleeve are larger too? Just wondering.

Man or woman -how much do you eat at a meal?

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And everyone's sleeve is different yes men and women have different sizes

but also from man to man and woman to woman some have shorter stomachs some have longer stomachs :)

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Thank you Laura. :)

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My doc told me he had to use one more line of staples than he usually does. I guess that makes me a long sleeve.

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Bloody hell those links are eerily similar. I'm sensing a patter here. OP.....why do you want to get sleeved in the first place? Is it to lose weight, get healthy, live longer? All of those? What has prevented you from obtaining those goals? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess......food. It's the same for all of us. We all overeat. That's how we got here. You have to decide which you wanna give up....the food or the excess weight.

Yes you will be able to eat again. If you feel deprived, it's not going to be a physical issue. Deprivation is a mental issue. If you feel deprived, if you miss eating large quantities of food, you need to realize that kind of eating is a coping mechanism for some other problem and needs to be dealt with in a healthy manner.

And now that the lecture is over....I'm 18 months post op and I eat 2000 calories a day. I also exercise an hour a day and I eat clean and healthy 95% of the time. I don't miss pizza, hamburgers or gorging on endless buffets. Frankly I feel free of the bonds of overeating. It's liberating.

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