I was weighed at my dr's office. I'm a 5'5" female. Now 326 lbs. (a few years after the...

EXACTLY...

I just got my three year labs back...other than K being low normal, all was well within normal...some high normal. My cholesterol which pre-op was well over 225 without meds is NOW 173 WITHOUT meds and I drink two butter coffees every day!

I've dieted ALL my life...I wanted a surgery that allowed me to eat the food I LIKE eating!

FWIW, I think that with RNY it is also good habits rather than hard work. The only hard work is in my brain when I still sometimes want to turn to Haagen Dazs or Bill's doughnuts for comfort, and that situation would be the same if I had opted for the DS. (I can eat half a cup of full fat, full sugar ice cream without feeling ill, and can eat an entire custard stick without incident, so it is more a matter of wanting to eliminate the remnants of that old behavior than it is about eating the food.)

Lora

It's the brain part that is the hardest for me, too, and I guess that's the hardest part of any of the surgeries. Mine is always being pretty counterproductive, shall we say, sometimes throwing temper tantrums and acting up all over the place. I do wish I could put it in time out or shut it up some way!

Not really. Despite not being a regular exerciser, and that I had cheesy eggs with bacon for breakfast, I've replaced all prescriptions for high cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar and PCOS with the vitamins I now take instead, and at 48 years old, am the envy of my doctor. I just had my 6 year labs,and she said she'd be out of a job if all her patients had a BMI and labs that I do. Then I told her about my prime rib dinner. 

I didn't want a surgery I had to work, as I'd been working diets for 30 years. I wanted a surgery to do the hard work for me.

And I didn't want the permanent degree of invasion by the DS to my one and only precious body. I would rather not eat so much, especially the constant high fat stuff, than live with so much rearranging in my insides.

I had a hard enough time accepting my RNY.

Cost/benefit, shall we say? To each their own and what best fits our particular needs?

So the RNY isn't permanent invasion of your body?  

Edit:  Invasion seems to be the incorrect word here I'm not aware of any of us having Aliens in our body after WLS. Permanent alteration may be a better word to use. 

All of the weight loss surgeries are an invasion into the normal natural inborn processes of the body- cutting, removing parts of the body in 3 of the surgeries, cutting off blood supply in order to do the surgery, rearranging of organs in an extensive way, and then sewing  the body up again. All of the WLS surgeries do this to a greater or lesser extent. Who knows the extent of the effect on all the other organs, given how interrelated all the body and brain parts are.

Sounds like an invasion to me.

I've had an illegal alien in my body Dana!! 

My whole body is a legal alien 

I dream about ILLEGAL alien.........does that count ?