i am having my procedure with Dr K on Wed. I am supper excited, but my best friend had the same procedure and she told me the first week on the recovery side was hell. I hope not, but this a second chance for me to make things right.

I can understand why you are looking at revisions. Serial re-gainer right here! I decided long ago that I wouldn't be having any more weight loss surgeries. I've watched and learned here. The type of surgery never has dictated success. Neither has the number of surgeries someone may or may not have had. Believe it or not, more surgeries seem almost counter-intuitive. Revision surgeries done for other than acute medical conditions such as GERD appear to be no more successful in the long run than virgin procedures.

My high weight was 347 pounds and after surgery I lost down to 177. The regaining started in year four - each time I would lose down to the 170's, maintain for a couple of years and then start gaining again. The regains got smaller, but I was so over repeating that awful process! By January of last year I was ready to lose it for the hopefully last time. My goal was simply to get back to 177. A normal BMI for me would put me at 164.

This morning I weigh 148. I was 10 years out on the 9th of this month.

Here's the point: New surgeries aren't the answer. In the end we will always, ALWAYS, be left with calories in vs calories out. To lose weight you must eat less calories than you burn. Any WLS is going to make that relatively easy the first few months. After about year two or so, and certainly into year five plus, it's all you.

It's all you. And you can do this. You HAVE done this. You've slipped. But you've done this once and you can do it again now. Revisions are risky and have a historically low return on investment when done for reasons other than medical necessity (it's not uncommon for a revision to result in minimal maintained excess weight loss after those first early months). There are successes and we have a few of those here. Obviously the choice is yours. I'm only asking you to think long and hard before you go that route. Because no matter how many surgeries we have, we will always end up right smack back in the same place. There is no "cure" for eating more calories than we burn.

New surgeries may delay that moment of reckoning, but it will come.

Just some things to think about as you explore your decision. Good luck to you, whatever it is that you choose. Stick around a bit and maybe post on some of the main boards too. You may get more responses over there.

Stay in touch and let us know how it goes....please!

You can eat around any surgery. Esting sugar and carbs - there is no surgery that would prevent you gaining weight when you eat that. RNY - only 30% dump from sugary items, and with work, even those who dump can learn how to eat just enough to prevent the worste dumping. And the more sugar /carbs person eats - the more body can get used to that. And crave that. I know. From experience.

The only way to maintain weight loss after WLS is by following good, proper diet, of dense proteins, followed by some veggies, and maybe little bit starches.

Unless you can change your eating - getting revision only can make you sick in a long run.

I had RNY over 10 years ago. When I eat dense proteins - I get restrictions. But carbs - I don't. I am a dumper, but over the years I learned how much and what foods I need to avoid to not get really sick. And in reality ,- even being very sensitive to sugars, there are not foods that are really forbidden for me. Probably the worst is ice cream.

I know eating sugars and simple carbs can make me uncomfortable, and it will make me gain weight very fast. So I try to avoid that. It is not easy. But it can be done.

Maybe getting therapy to find out why you can't stick to plan may help you?

I know I can be a stress eater. So I have different ways to deal with stress. And if "I need to" stress eat - I pick foods that don't cause too much blood sugar spikes.

How did it go? Who did the surgery?