Getting sleeved with less than 100lbs to lose?? Why?

If you are getting angry I can only imagine that either you yourself had had similar thoughts or have heard comments/criticism of your surgery decision already.

Nope - In general, people have been very supportive.  Just get sick of people judging other people or second guessing decisions made between them and their doctor.  Yes, she said she was not criticizing, but it's like Ricky Bobby saying "With all due respect" in Talladega Nights ... It's still a slam!

LOL!  I think that's the first time I've seen a Talladega Nights reference.  Wish I'd see them more often. ;)    (sorry for being off topic!)

 Sometimes I wonder the same OP but more so when people have malabsorbtive surgeries like RNY and DS, just because those surgeries seem to carry more risk.  If someone only has less than a 100lbs to lose, it seems like that risk wouldn't be worth it.

However,  if there is one thing I regret, its that I didn't have VSG sooner, when I only had a 100lbs to lose. I was down to 255 from 320 a few years ago, but didn't have the surgery cause I thought I could keep losing weight.  In a couple fo years I gained that 70lbs back plus some. Now I have a 170lbs to lose instead of 100lbs which sucks.

Maybe i'm diffrent then other people who posted, i didnt have a weight issue all my life, after having kids i was a little over weight by 30lbs or so and didnt see it as an issue. When i turned 40 thats when it started to creep up and was harder and harder to fight off so when i got to the point i was coming up on being over 100lbs over weight i desided to do something about it BEFORE i became sick (co morbisities). I didnt need to gain another 100lbs to know i needed help. I did it so i could live the 2nd half of my life as well as i lived the first half. I will say though at 5'3 100lbs over is fat and i am so happy i did this

There is no way for you to understand the answer to this if from where you stand you can't see the other persons perspective. I was sleeved with 60lbs, if I'm very lucky 70lbs to lose.  But that 70lbs, was my albatross.  Sure i could sit in a plane seat and walk places and shop in regular stores, but i hated it. i hated it enough to get surgery.  Sure i could lose weight, I'd done it a hundred times and watched in horror a hundred times as it came back on.  I did not have any co-morbidities but lived in fear of developing some because it was inevitable. If having even 60lbs to lose wls is the first thing you turned to then getting bigger was not high on your radar.  if however 20lbs was frightening, then 30 then 40.  If your threshold was 300, then mine was what mine was and the lifetime of yo yo dieting and success then failure and the struggle took up most of my adulthood.  I could never combat it.  And my personal high after all that told me that it was going to be 200, 250.  Should i wait for that?  That would have killed me. I would match my struggle with your struggle, my pain with your pain and my unhappiness with yours and my WLS with yours.  Lack of control is lack of control.  No one woke up with 200lbs to lose.  Then woke up with 10, 20, etc. The only difference is pounds but the behaviors that got both of us here are the same and the ability to change those behaviors, both, based on history, sadly lacking.  When i looked down the road to my future i imagined myself 100lbs heavier and a thousand times unhappier, with no more skills to combat it then than now. I also did not see it getting easier to lose and maintain as i got older.  My age was definitly a factor.  In my 20's i always could shave it off with some effort, in my 30's not as easy but still doable, in my  forties, forget it.  I was always behind the 8 ball and falling further behind.  So why have WLS with less than 100lbs to lose? So you don't have to deal with the inevitable. 200lbs to lose.  

Why would anyone who has less than 100 pounds to lose get the sleeve?

Why would anyone who has 10 pounds to lose bother going to Weigh****chers (or even bother to diet)?

 But didn't you just answer your own question? What if you could have had surgery earlier, BEFORE you where morbidly obese, what if you could have nipped it in the bud when you only had about 100 lbs to lose? What if the person knows that they are headed too 300 lbs and don't want to ever see that number on the scale? That's the way I see it. I wish I had not waited until I was over 300 lbs to take the jump into surgery, I wish I had done it sooner, saved the stress on my joints, my heart and my self esteem.

It's their body.  If someone had the means and wanted to have surgery to lose 40-50 lbs.....why wouldn't they have that right?

Choosing to have WLS at any weight is a personal decision with many different reasons behind it. It has never crossed my mind to wonder why someone needing to lose less than 100lbs chose to have surgery because in my mind overweight is just that overweight! Being overweight at any level is a health risk. Like other posters have stated, I wish I had surgery sooner and taken control before my weight climbed to over 300lbs.