Hey Gang!

I am only in the beginning stages of the pre-op phase. I am excited and scared at the same time. My husband and our daughter (she's 34) are doing this together. Our insurance has very few hoops to jump through so I hope that the process goes quickly. I look forward to starting the new phase of our lives. I have about 140 pounds to lose. I lost exactly that amount on my own through diet and exercise 14 years ago only to gain back every single pound....therein lies my greatest fear- that I will do this successfully only to gain it back again someday.

Hi and welcome! It's neat that you are all going through this together. It will be nice to have such a close and sympathetic support system! Regain is a fear for us all. I lost 90+ pounds on my own in 2010/2011 and regained 80 of it before deciding to have my sleeve. I am optimistic that if I do regain at all, it won't be nearly as much. I am just not physically capable of bingeing the way I did before. Sure there are ways to eat around your sleeve and regain, but it would require some conscious effort to do so. As long as I stick to the rules of protein first and only eating on a schedule, I am hopeful I won't run into that problem.