Hello!

So happy to have found this website. I am considering having WLS. Still deciding between the sleeve and bypass but more so sleeve. I am very nervous. I have struggled with weight my whole life. I have lost 70 pounds twice on my own and I am back up to 250. It's been hard. For the last 4 years I have been over 200. I went to the consultations and classes for WLS twice but never did. Now I feel desperate. I want my life back. I am 27 and I am extremely self conscious and insecure. I can't even look at myself in the mirror. I'm scared about heart conditions, strokes, and diabetes that run in my family. Even with all this despair the idea of permanent surgery scares me. I'm young and want to be able to indulge a little over the course of my life. I'm scared doing something permanent early in my life will effect it negatively. As crazy as that sounds. Can you all tell me about how it has effected your life and would you do it again?

Edited March 8, 201511 yr by Sareena Davis

I'm too interested in what others have to say. I'm 26 years old and was sleeved a week and a half ago. Before getting the surgery I too feared I wouldn't enjoy food/life after surgery. But from what I hear from many of the veterans is that eventually I will be able to eat everything I did before surgery but just smaller amounts. Obviously I would go for protein and healthy options first. This eased my mind. I still want to enjoy cookouts, dinner with friends, dates. And it seems all of that will be possible.