Well I'm sure I've said this before or something like it anyway but here I go again.....

The jury is still out on whether or not I think this surgery was a good idea for me.  I am eating way more than I think I should with no problems whatsoever which kind of pisses me off but I did still lose 56 lbs in 8 weeks and I'm eating way less than I was pre-op so I guess for now I'll take that.  I have HIRSP insurance that's a high risk insurance I pay the state of Wisconsin for.  I pay a huge premium of 00 per quarter and my husband is around 00 but he is older and had cancer.  I was approved in 6 days this time and in 2004 when I chickened out in less than 2 weeks so my insurance is good.  I just and have been giving my son advice and I will give you all the same, try everything else before you have the surgery because everyone thinks of it as a magic pill and it's soooooo not.  I am right back after 8 weeks eating just about everything I want and I have to watch it closely and exercise every day to maintain and possibly lose more weight which I have not lost anymore in the past 2 or 3 weeks, I swear that's the truth.  I can eat sugar almost as much as I want (I haven't hit too much yet).  I can eat ice cream have Starbucks coffees with sugar in them and I have never had a problem at all!  But if you still want to have it and you do my advice would be to watch it and don't try and push the envelope eat only what they tell you and make it so if you go over that amount whatsoever that you will die and plan on exercising at least 3 or better 4 times a week for an hour.  So the moral of this story (at least mine) is you may have to eat right using willpower and exercise just about everyday and if I would have been able to do that pre-surgery I wouldn't have needed the surgery in the first place...Best to you, your friend...Pam