Any regrets on having surgery???

I LOOOVE MY RNY and only wish I had done it earlier.

No regrest here either.  Best decision I ever made.  Good luck, Cindy

Ditto to what everyone else has said. It is harder for me to "own it" than to actually follow all the rules!!! I am working on that, as well as "fixing" my head. Loss was always doable for me, it was the sudden and furious REGAIN that got me so in the dumps!

I am working on a "healthy" relationship with food, and feel confident I will figure this out. This site, or SOMETHING where you have ACCOUNTABILITY is key (I think), and it is refreshing to be amongst folks who "get you"...

Good luck.

my only regret is not having it sooner!    i'm 52 years old and have lost and gained hundreds of pounds over the past 30 years.....wound up weighing more than i'd ever weighed in my life with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obstructive sleep apnea.  my RNY was 6/21/11 and i've lost 107 pounds and no longer have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and sleep apnea.  i chose to tell about my surgery on a "need to know" basis....not because of shame in any way.  i made that decision because it was right for me.  i didn't want to be put in the position of defending my decision to have surgery and i didn't want to be forced to deal with all the negativity.  i made that decision after a dear, dear friend (one that i thought would support me 150%) said...."if you've got to be disciplined after the surgery....why not be disciplined now and not have it?"  i knew at that moment that i couldn't expect the rest of the world to understand why i chose surgery because they couldn't understand what being overweight was doing to me physically or emotionally.  it's a very personal thing.  and as i lost weight people will ask me "what are you doing?" and i answer them honestly.  i say "i drink a protein shake for breakfast, i no longer eat sweets, i eat high protein/low carb and i started running" and leave it at that.  my health issues are very personal and private and i don't share about my surgery any more than i share a yeast infection or anything else.  like i said, it's a very personal decision......weight loss of any kind is an emotional roller coaster and even more so after wls because of the raging hormones caused by rapid weight loss.....

to tell or not to tell is a very personal decision and only you can make that decision.  just know we're all here for you! 

best wishes to you and give a yell if i can help you in any way!

I'm 57 years old and have struggled with my weight my entire life. I have been overweight, obese, and for the past 7 years, morbidly obese. Having the sleeve done has given me back my life and I am no longer pre-diabetic, have joint issues, and the severe sleep apnea is gone. I feel like I have been given a gift. I have my health back and am able to exercise, and actually enjoy it. I feel and look like a different person. So far, it is the best thing that I have ever done for my health, beside stopping smoking 19 years ago.

I am 4'11" and started out at 210, lost 33 lbs pre-op, and this AM, I am down to 114.4. I would like to lose a few more lbs, but if I didn't lose another pound, I would be happy at my current weight. I went from a 1X to a size 2 Petite. Blows my mind, when I really think about it.

WLS is a very personal decision, but I thought that it was my best chance to stop the yo-yo dieting and to reach a normal BMI. My PCP recommended the surgery and I am so grateful that he did so. It wasn't even on my radar. The surgery is giving me back my life.

Gail

"In my head I know I should be able to do those things"

Why?! Only 1-5% of people can lose more than 50 pound and keep it off for up to 5 years. Why do you think you should be in the 1-5% and not the 95-99%?

This is the way I look at it:

It wasn't my head that was telling me that I should be able to do what 99% of the people can't do. Heck, I actually was one of the 1-5% once. I lost 70 pounds and kept it off 40 of it for 5 years. But by 8 years out, it was all back and change.

Therefore, I knew it wasn't logic that was telling me to go on another diet and "this time" it would somehow magically be different. It was society that has brainwashed us into thinking that losing weight is just a matter of having enough character and anyone should be able to do it if they really want to -- all evidence to the contrary.

The other thing that people who don't want us to have weight loss surgery need to realize is that the reason to have surgery isn't to lose the weight. Many of us have lost weight just fine many times before. The reason is to keep it off. THAT is what we can't do unless we change our physiology.

I have no regrets either! As for the hearing negative comments thing, that's why I only told my husband who struggles with his weight), Mom (who has had weight loss surgery herself) and Dad ( he also struggles with his weight.) I had made up my mind to have it done so I didn't want to hear any crap from anyone else. P.S. I've found out that if you tell someone (like your husband) that you have to specify to that person NOT to tell ANYONE else! Or they will. Thinking it's no big deal. That is all.

That is a tough one for me to answer. Sometimes I think that if I knew then what I know now I wish I could have just gotten a sleeve but in 2002 when I had my first WLS the sleeve wasn't an option. I know I would have never kept weight off by myself but at this point I wasn't able to keep it off with it, either. My own fault, I never made the changes that I needed to. I expected the surgery to do it for me. Now I have had a revision and I am finally using it for what it is, a tool to help me. I am only 8 months out from my revision and right now it is an awesome tool. I haven't been hungry since my surgery and so it is fairly easy to stick to a healthy eating routine. I can't look into the future and know if that will always be the case so I guess if you are asking how I feel at this moment I would say no regrets. If you had asked this a year ago or a year from now the answer might be different.

I know 100% that surgery was the right choice for me.  Saying that...I think I'm abnormal because I've had so many complications with my band but still sugery was the right choice for me.  I was asked just last week if I regret the choice in the surgery that I had (BAND vs. RYN) and I said no because I've worked so hard to change my lifestyle.  My weight isn't where I want it to be but I'm healthy.  Every time I get the results from my laps...I'm just shocked at how well I'm doing.  This Friday I will reach a huge milstone since my surgery.  I vowed that this surgery would change my life and that is what its done.  On Friday, I will have ran my 1,000th mile since my surgery in May of 2009.  1,000!!!  I can't believe it.  So, while I'm not where I want to be with my weight, I am doing things that I've never done before. 
If you think the surgery is right for you....then do it.  I tried for years to loose the weight and it wasn't working.  Good Luck to you!

I have only had a moment of regret.  Last Sunday when i was at Costco and they had some baclava for sale.  That was HARD!

Sue