Hello All! I'm hoping for gastric sleeve surgery this December. I have a million and one emotions at any given moment, but bottom line. I need the help to get this weight off. I understand this is a tool. Any pre op/post op advice?

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It's more mental than physical...so just be prepared for that fact. The surgery is the easy part. The process of giving up who you used to be, in a very large part, is the challenge. You simply will not succeed if your behaviors and opinions about food stay the same, after this surgery...or if you expect to go back to how you used to behave, once you get some weight off. It's very possible to fail even with surgery, and the web is littered with cautionary tales of people who didn't succeed, because they didn't make the mental changes they needed to.

The surgery will enforce behavior, but it won't change your MIND...and that's what has to change, more than anything else. So be sure you're dedicated to going through that process, because it isn't easy. I'm still going through some of it, three weeks post-surgery...and I'm sure I'll continue to face challenges in the months to come, as I heal up and can eat more. The surgery makes it easier than trying to do it while you're starving to death and still have the stomach to eat anything you want to, but if you don't change your mindset, you'll find ways to get excessive calories in and gain weight back.

Just start getting in touch with your feelings about things and where they are coming from. Get at the core of why you overeat and why you gained your weight. Those are the things you'll have to solve.

Edited October 14, 20169 yr by PorkChopExpress

need help to get weight off

@@anjoroge

welcome welcome welcome!!!!

we alllll have that weight "issue" in common - brings us together!

you'll fit right in!!!

nice to meet you

you still have time to learn many things

Knowledge is POWER!!! (you heard it here first )

people often do experience many emotions

you are about to start a new life

ie getting married, new job, becoming a parent et al

NOW you are on the road to WLS!!

you will probably read questions from OP that you were

also curious about - ask your questions too

Much to learn, lots of rules

important to remember for your future

DO NOT eat pizza or steak the 2nd day PO

private joke from the boards - you'll understand

soon enough

hope you get your DOS sooner than later

big group hug welcoming you to sleeveland

good luck

kathy

It's more mental than physical...so just be prepared for that fact. The surgery is the easy part. The process of giving up who you used to be, in a very large part, is the challenge. You simply will not succeed if your behaviors and opinions about food stay the same, after this surgery...or if you expect to go back to how you used to behave, once you get some weight off. It's very possible to fail even with surgery, and the web is littered with cautionary tales of people who didn't succeed, because they didn't make the mental changes they needed to.

The surgery will enforce behavior, but it won't change your MIND...and that's what has to change, more than anything else. So be sure you're dedicated to going through that process, because it isn't easy. I'm still going through some of it, three weeks post-surgery...and I'm sure I'll continue to face challenges in the months to come, as I heal up and can eat more. The surgery makes it easier than trying to do it while you're starving to death and still have the stomach to eat anything you want to, but if you don't change your mindset, you'll find ways to get excessive calories in and gain weight back.

Just start getting in touch with your feelings about things and where they are coming from. Get at the core of why you overeat and why you gained your weight. Those are the things you'll have to solve.

@@PorkChopExpress has made some really great points.

I am only 11 days post-op but have realized already that I have been given a TOOL to loose the weight, a great tool, but that I have to conquer my behavioral, emotional, addictive and habitual issues that led me to being overweight. Post surgery so far I have been able to manage my physical hunger and body. But the mind plays some wicked games, and I have often thought about how food used to literally consume so much of my life. For example, Sundays during football season. I think I enjoyed the abundance of fatty Snacks and alcohol more than the games.

It is mental. I realize now how much mental energy and thought I have always given food, eating and preparing to eat. I think it ran my life and my optimism and happiness came from food and the thoiughts of having it. I am now having to shift that energy elsewhere to be happy. I am very new to this, but I am using the way I feel (healthier already) and the thoughts of what I will soon be able to do when I weigh less as motivation for my happiness, something to replace food as my sole driver.

You might think about a support group if you have similar issues. My surgeons office has one monthly and I plan on going.

It is good that you are looking ahead and planning for what is to come. Good luck to you!!!

Edited October 14, 20169 yr by The New Kel

Thank you so much @@proudgrammy

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@PorkChopExpess thank you so much amazing amazing advice

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Edited October 14, 20169 yr by anjoroge