Please Help! Looking For Some Reassurance From Those Of You A Year + Out

[sleevedup 46]

Hi Everyone!

I am considering VSG, hoping to have the op sometime in December. I am very aware that the sleeve is a tool. I know you can gain a lot of weight back by making poor food choices (chips, ice cream, slider foods, etc.) and that if you want to keep the weight off, you have to make a lifestyle change. I am prepared for all this, in fact I welcome it greatly. But the more I read, I get scared. I am starting to feel like post 6 months there is not much restriction and you are kind of left to your own devices. Apart of why I am having this surgery is because I feel like a bottomless pit and want an internal stop button. I want to feel full without eating 1000 calories a sitting.

To be honest, I don't have much physical hunger to begin with now. I mostly feel (unless I have just eaten the usual big/unhealthy meal) I am up to eat more for the sake of gluttony. I know I have issues with food, I am a recovery addict with some years of sobriety, and I understand since being sober I have used food as a drug. I definitely emotionally eat and most of my hunger is head hunger. Again, I am willing (very willing) to do the work and I know this is a tool, but the some of the things I've read make me feel that after sometime the sleeve is not much of a tool at all:(

Can anyone shed some light? I can deal with making the appropriate food changes and eating the right things (i.e. Proteins first, veggies, etc.), but will that make me feel truly full? I am ready to start incorporating a fitness routine but I am just beginning to question if the sleeve provides restriction after the initial honeymoon period.

[kidrn72 85]

I'm 30 mo post op and still have restriction:) having a sleeve was the best choice I made! I used to eat constantly and never felt full, I use food as my drug of choice and I have to work on that daily. Yes the sleeve is a tool and yes you have to make life style changes but it works if you make those changes:) I have learned that carbs trigger craving for me so I have chosen to stay with a low carb lifestyle, no white proceeded stuff which helps me control my cravings:)

[sleevedup 46]

Thanks kidrn72!!! Awww....so helpful to here sister:)

[marfar7 1,528]

Im 13 mths out and can still only eat small amts. More than at 3 mtths out but not nearly as much as before wls. Im a band to sleeve revision sl i compare my restriction to when my band was at its premium (about 6 mth. Im 11 lbs from goal.

Whkle i can eat healthier (staying away from carbs, etc) im happy tl eat whTever i want in just smLler amts.

Good luck...