At the seminar I attended, the doctor mentioned that sugar junkies don't do very well with this surgery because they still manage to find a way to beat the system. I can see where that's possible on the one hand, and on the other, I would think that between surgery and liquid diet, etc. that the sugar addiction/cravings would decrease.

Of course, there might be some killer headaches at the beginning -- I had those when I did the South Beach diet religiously, and I did manage to kick the sugar habit for about 9 months. (That was 3 years ago...)

i dont know if i would agree with the doc but i guess there are a select few out there that would prove him wrong though. I was a big sugar junkie. mountain dew aholic and any chocolate around man i was eating it. but since the band and doing the liquid diet after wards. i am free of sugar. added sugar that is with some foods you eat there is some sugar but i dont go above 10 gm of sugar a day in my foods. and it dont bother me a bit. but im sure most of us here were sugar junkies.

i posted somewhere on here about sugar addiction because i had it bad. then i started getting restriction..now..i don't crave sweets like i did before. i think when you aren't hungry you don't care so much what you eat.

i only start "caring/worrying" about what i'm going to eat when i need a fill. (i just got restriction 2 weeks ago..and i just don't care what i eat..take it or leave it).

i should add that i do get cravings every once in a while.