I have never regretted it. Check out my gallery. I'm the same height as you and I am 7 lbs to my goal in less than 10 months. Wish I would have done it a year sooner to be skinny for my daughter's wedding.

Try and stay motivated, which might be really hard, especially when you have other people questioning your decision. Write out why it is you want to do this for yourself, the benefits, and refer to it when you have negative thoughts. Research, join support groups and be active in them. I am almost 6 months post op and I don't regret this decision. Yes, weight loss is challenging, it isn't easy, even with the sleeve you still have to work at it. But I tell you its the best gift I have given myself.

Gastric Sleeve surgery is a step towards permanent success in weight loss. The important thing to remember is that you have to get your head wrapped around the fact that you will be a healthy weight. Let go of the fear that you have because it will only hold you back.

Thanks so much all for replying. I remember when I had lap band and I was weighing myself almost everyday...and loosing weight. Then I began eating more pizza, more wings, more chips, more ice cream. Although I am not back up to where I was prior to banding, I was sick of the vomitting and the needles in my gut every three months and they still could not get me adjusted appropriately. I have tons of people supporting me. My mother was so cute. She wants to buy me a piece of clothing so I told her to buy me a size 18-since I have been that size since I was in high school. But my husband said something the other day that made me dountful and fearful. He said I didn't know if I was going to ever be that small again and tell her not to buy that size. So without a huge fight I just looked at him and said that I am keeping the receipt. I am definately doing this for myself but that is our little boy in my picture. Granted he is four now but he is EVERYTHING to me. I want to be there for him as he gets older. I am refusing to let an addiction to food kill me. As iliana82 said try to stay motivated... trying is my strength now and more importantly my faith is my tower to lean on.

Hey, I think what you are feeling is normal...it has to be because I feel it too. I have Lap Band and it it did not work for me. I recently got approved my surgery to have the defective band removed and to get Sleeved. I was excited when I got approved for Band and I shared that excitement. When the LapBand failed me, it was a public failure. I have shared with a smaller group of people about my impending surgery late August. In the back of my mind, I wonder too will the Sleeve fail me. I acknowledge the thought and push it away because I know it won't fail me. I get on this site and use it for its purpose...support. I go to Youtube and look at various sites about Sleeve. I get filled up on confidence. I envision my success. I know my mind takes me back to my failed weight loss but I am going to reprogram my thinking until it comes into fruition. This will work for you and it will work for me. It has worked for so many on these sites. Yes, I got excited like this with the Band but the difference is the Band failed me, you and so many others. It will take work with the Sleeve but it seems far from what we all went through with the Band. Hang in there, be confident and believe....I am going to believe for you. I cannot wait until 8.23.12. Believe!!!!