Hi there my surgery is scheduled for later this year and the doctor has recommended gastric sleeve. For those of you that have already had the surgery do you think this is a good option for somebody who is seriously addicted to sugar and carbohydrates?

I realize the surgery is just a tool and it takes a lot of hard work to succeed. However, I am worried that if I am able to tolerate sugar or carbs after the surgery and recovery, I probably will do it.

I have three friends that have done the RNY, and my sister is just eight months out from her RNY surgery. None of them can tolerate sugar very well so they really don't eat it because of the negative effects.

I promise I'm not trying to go into the surgery with a defeatist attitude, but want to be very realistic about the challenges I have faced with sugar and carbs for nearly 20 years.

So, if you were a sugar or carboholic like me before surgery, what has your experience been like after surgery?

thats why you have to get to the bottom of your food/carb/sugar addiction ahead of the surgery (or at least try)!

if you have zero insight, and you have no plan for soothing yourself without food, you will figure out how to eat around your surgery.

too many people seem to say "i wont eat that after surgery." and that is their sole plan for coping without food afterwards.

there are many ways to fill your needs after surgery... but no plan usually means nothing happens. you fall back on your old coping mechanisms, which means food.

Good posts on this thread. But @@Kindle, your stories about friends who are eating themselves into regain and their graves from horrific food choices makes me nauseated and sad. What a waste of life and opportunity.

Follow the eating rules and in a couple of months you will awaken to feel life super man. Dumping the numbing effects of food and alcohol is fricking amazing. You will want to live life to the fullest. That is what is happening to me.

Thank you so much everyone!! I am really excited to start this journey. I have an amazing support group of friends and family that have blazed this trail before me. Decided on RNY. Looking forward to a great future.