I never heard that concept before and believe you have a very smart surgeon.

It makes sense that we will try to stay where we have usually been comfortable.

My husband went to the support groups and surgeon appointments with me.

Revising to RNY should result in weight loss. You will have malabsorption of calories. Your surgeon can tell you his experience with patients who have had the revision.

My closest friend had RNY before I did and was my mentor through my process. She suffers from terrible back pain. She has a hot tub on her porch and uses it one or two times a day.

Her back pain got to bad that she finally convinced a doctor to prescribe her Celebrex. It was against her weight loss surgeon's recommendation, but her pain was so bad that she decided to risk it.

She is a very strong and active person. She works hard through the pain. I was so hopeful that the Celebrex would be her savior.

She was OK with it for almost five years. Then ended up with a bunch of ulcers that required surgery and over two weeks of hospitalization. Now she is trying to be approved for medical marijuana.

Every day that you wait for surgery makes the pancreas weaker and your chances of diabetes going into remission less likely. Every day that you go without medicine makes your body weaker and sicker.

This is a disease that you have an opportunity to fix. It won't get better on its own.

Most diabetes have "burned out" periods. It does not get easier. I hope you come to your senses and get this taken care of now.

She will be gleefully happy if you regain.

Six months before surgery I gave up bread. No white bread, no wheat bread, no protein bread, no bread at all. It is one of the major reasons that I was so successful in my weight loss and maintenance.

The stuff you are looking at feels like a magic solution. I can have my bread and still be getting my protein, but it is not. This stuff will be a slippery slope that will slow your progress considerably.

I see myself as an alcoholic whose addiction is carbs. I cannot have even a little bread without risking going back to obesity. I also do not eat potatoes, rice, cereal, pasta, noodles, sugar, cake, pies, cookies or ice cream.

I have learned to be very happy and content with dense protein and non-starchy vegetables. Anytime I am tempted, I look around me at all the overweight people and then I look at my size 4 jeans and remember when they were size 24.

She may be making some bad choices, but to lose 60 pounds in a year with VSG, she is making a lot of good choices. I have seen many people lose less than 30 pounds in a year with VSG and I have seen many lose 100 pounds in a year with RNY.

Losing 60 pounds in a year with VSG is excellent. You are both in the honeymoon stage of your surgeries.

What matters is not so much how quickly you lose as how well you maintain.

In school there are A students, C students and students that fail. We all have different intelligence levels and not everyone is smart enough to make good choices. All you can do is try to lead by example and hope she learns better methods for managing her weight.

I have not heard any horror stories. I have heard a lot of stories of people getting instant relief from reflux by getting RNY.

The gallbladder tends to cause problems after weight loss surgery, so you just had it removed before it developed stones and sludge.

My surgeon would not remove mine while it was healthy but took it out when I got a stone. I don't miss it at all.

If you get a sugar-free Easter basket it will be Easter you will never forget. That stuff is a powerful laxative. You will have gas, bloating and explosive diarrhea, even with just a few pieces.

Very few with DS post in this site. You might want to cross post to the DS forum.

I ate ricotta bake but never pureed it.

I can only eat filet migeon grilled. Most other steak is too tough. I did not eat any red meat for the first four months after surgery.

If I cook with most red meats, I prepare it in a pressure cooker until it falls apart on its own. I will use it in pot roast, soup or stew. I do the same with chicken. Some people eat ribeye grilled.

Grim Traveler is a big meat eater and can tell you more about choosing and preparing red meats.

I absolutely cannot eat any meat if it has been warmed in the microwave. If I warm leftovers, I have to do it the old fashioned way with a pot on the stove.