So many questions?

[redigo_2 2]

First off, this is my first time posting on any type of forum like this so I hope I do it right! :-)

I started my journey back in 2013 and was given 14lbs to lose by my surgeon before surgery. I ended up losing about 35 and felt so much better, then I had all the people around me (friends, family, coworkers) saying, "You look great!, you don't need to have that surgery...you can do this on your own, look how much you've already lost!" So I went no further and now here I am revisiting the surgery and of the 35lbs I lost before, I am down 12lbs from my highest weight, which was 264 (I am 5'7) and my BMI is about 39.5.

One of my biggest questions is...will I lose too much weight? Someone that I know had the surgery and they said to me, if they "only" had 100lbs to lose, they wouldn't have had the surgery. Only 100lbs? Seriously? If it was that easy I would weigh 150lbs right now! All those answers no one can answer...

Why do people want to "test" their new tummy by eating things and larger amounts that they know they shouldn't?

What will I look like 100lbs lighter?

Will I get too skinny and look sickly?

If all goes well...I am looking at either a surgery date sometime in December or late January. I'm nervous but excited at the same time!!!

[krista132 213]

Hi! I think that you are doing the right thing by coming on the forums. The people who have had this surgery for a while can probably help you a lot more than I can, however, I will try. I did a lot of research prior to my surgery and had questions as well. I would recommend doing research yourself too. As far as what my surgeon has told me (although I never had the thought of being afraid to be too skinny) is that your body will plateau at a certain point. It is up to you if you want to push that more or less. However, I cant imagine that it would ever get to the point of being sickly looking.

As you will find in this forum, everyone believes strongly in this surgery. Make the decision for you, not anyone else and if they think that you can "do it on your own". Hope this helps. Good luck!

[Dub 9,922]

Good deal.

For me it was an easy question. Back in 2010, I humped it hard....exercise, diet, exercise, diet. I lost 120 lbs pretty quick, all things considered.

Two things were obvious to me at that point: 1) I had a lot more weight to lose beyond the 200. 2) I was getting close to burnout on the extreme diet and exercise. It was getting results....but I'd grown infatuated with weight training more than the hardcore cardio I'd been doing. Weight training led to fun results and more calories needed for muscle growth. I went from a clean bulk diet to a dirty bulk. Injuries led to surgery to repair them. Progress not only halted but regression occurred.

Now, back where I started in 2010....injured again and unable to do much lifting. Ten days past sleeve surgery and the weight loss is cruising along as I'm healing up. Now I have a tool that is going to help me get the weight off and heal up so I can resume gym fun to get in shape. The difference is that I (and my surgeon) feel like I can lose the 200+ pounds I needed & wanted to lose.......and the sleeve tool is here to help forever if I do my part correctly.

I don't believe we'll loose two much weight due to our actions and behaviors being more in control of things than we realize.

I could be wrong, but this is how I approached things.

There are many on here who made it to their goals and are living at them.......daily life at the weights they wanted to be at. They are powerful resources and coaches. Amazing folks, amazing results and living the dream.

Best wishes to you !!!!!!

[dhrguru 1,238]

First off, this is my first time posting on any type of forum like this so I hope I do it right! :-)

I started my journey back in 2013 and was given 14lbs to lose by my surgeon before surgery. I ended up losing about 35 and felt so much better, then I had all the people around me (friends, family, coworkers) saying, "You look great!, you don't need to have that surgery...you can do this on your own, look how much you've already lost!" So I went no further and now here I am revisiting the surgery and of the 35lbs I lost before, I am down 12lbs from my highest weight, which was 264 (I am 5'7) and my BMI is about 39.5.

One of my biggest questions is...will I lose too much weight? Someone that I know had the surgery and they said to me, if they "only" had 100lbs to lose, they wouldn't have had the surgery. Only 100lbs? Seriously? If it was that easy I would weigh 150lbs right now! All those answers no one can answer...

Why do people want to "test" their new tummy by eating things and larger amounts that they know they shouldn't?

What will I look like 100lbs lighter?

Will I get too skinny and look sickly?

If all goes well...I am looking at either a surgery date sometime in December or late January. I'm nervous but excited at the same time!!!

I was one that said if I had less than 100 to lose I wouldn't do the surgery. But now after learning more about the procedures, I'd probably let that be the the determining factor over which procedure I'd get, not rule it out.

I don't get why people test their tummies. I know in my case, I'm always curious if I will dump, but I don't seek to test it. If I spent my days testing how much I can eat like how I did before, there'd no point in doing surgery.

How Will you look? I can't answer that... I won't even know how I'll look... I've never been a normal weight. Trust that your body knows when to stop losing. You may dip lower than you want to, but there is always some bounce back regain.

Good luck!