When do you feel like yourself? When do you stop feeling like a patient and feel normal like you never even had the surgery ? When does the constant reminders in your head stop about how to eat, what to eat, how fast, drink, Protein, Vitamins etc .. When does it just become apart of you.

Are does it never happen?

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For me it was about 2 , 2-1/2 years after surgery

By then, I had lost all the excess weight I was going to loose...I go to the gym every day I can, not because I'm a Weight Loss patient, but because I like it and what it does for me.

After surgery, I began to learn to eat differently, eat different foods, etc. Gave up certain foods like all red meat, breads and other flour based foods, plus other food types.

I still do today, 6 years after surgery...NOT because I am a weight loss patient, but again, I like the benefits.

It all may have started out as something I learned as a weight loss patient, but it turned into something that became part of me...a lifestyle. And it is a very healthy lifestyle with positive outcomes I can see.

Friends of mine who are NOT weight loss patients, follow the same lifestyle, and we learn from each other.

I am only 7 weeks post op so I would like to throw my 2 cents in even though I don't have the experience as the others who posted here. To me I would think it depends on the WLS surgery that you had. Lap Bands are going be different than the sleeves which are going to be different than the pouches. The bands and the sleeves are going to be able to return to a more "NORMAL" eating situation than the pouches. Bands and sleeves have stomachs, pouches don't and I believe that we have to take different supplements than they do.

So to answer your question, it depends on you and the type of surgery that you had.

This is just my 2 cents and again, I am only 7 weeks post op.