Hello,

I'd like peoples advice on which surgery to go with. Here's. My stats. I'm 5'7, 295 lbs. My BMI is 46. I need to lose 150 lbs to be at 150. I'd like to get the sleeve but with 60-70% excess weight loss plus 10-15% regain, I'm looking at being around 220 lbs when this is all said and done.

With bypass, I know several people who have lost 100% of their excess weight and had it easier keeping it off. The problem is they have bad vitamin deficiency even a decade later and can't even take some antidepressants.

My question is to you is, how many of you got sleeved with a 46 BMI? Did you lose more than 70%?

And for the bypass patients, if you've had the surgery over 5 years ago, how restricted are you now?

On 1/16/2021 at 2:16 PM, NYCGirl9269 said:

I would like to see your results post 18 months and then perhaps I'd consider it. Seen too many regains too fast with the sleeve.

I have no idea why this post popped in my head today but I figured now is as good as any time for my update! ? I’m 34 months post op. I’m 125 lbs (from 284). No regain. I think I did ok!

Hey this popped up in my feed too, I remember this thread! At the time I was only a few months post op. I’m coming up on two years here, I lost 181 lbs. I weighed in at 153 this morning, so for my height of 5’10 I’m now at a 22 BMI. So at the end of the day I did in fact lose more than 100% of my excess weight, I did not start magically regaining weight at 18 months post op, and all this with a sleeve surgery. Who would have imagined.

16 hours ago, blackcatsandbaddecisions said:

Hey this popped up in my feed too, I remember this thread! At the time I was only a few months post op. I’m coming up on two years here, I lost 181 lbs. I weighed in at 153 this morning, so for my height of 5’10 I’m now at a 22 BMI. So at the end of the day I did in fact lose more than 100% of my excess weight, I did not start magically regaining weight at 18 months post op, and all this with a sleeve surgery. Who would have imagined.

Way to go!!!! I just checked (literally never know lol ?) and I’m 21.5 bmi. My doc actually would be ok with me gaining a few pounds because my caloric intake tends to be low. I have ZERO regrets from the sleeve!!

On 01/16/2021 at 12:16, NYCGirl9269 said:

I would like to see your results post 18 months and then perhaps I'd consider it. Seen too many regains too fast with the sleeve.

If I knew what I know now I would have just went with bypass from the jump. The regain is ridiculous but that was my fault and the pandy didn’t help either. So now im headed for a revision in December?

Wow this thread was so interesting to read. It seems OP just wanted the easiest solution without committing to any real discipline.

& the two update photos from today are amazing! You ladies did incredible