LipstickLady

If I had a magic wand, I'd wave it and you would have your tummy back. I'd make you keep the pink brows, though.

This is something I posted a few years back: http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/308645-i-was-a-super-healthy-fat-person-until-surgery-changed-my-life-was-it-worth-it/?hl=%20was%20%20super%20%20healthy

So, again, I am going to have to disagree. For me, WLS was absolutely elective -- but not really. At 5.3 and 264 pounds I was slowly killing myself with food. I had been terribly successful with phentermine, WWs, Jenny, Atkins, South Beach, etc. losing 80-90 pounds with each, maintaining for a few months and then quickly gaining it all back plus some. Losing weight had never been slow or hard, maintaining it was. I was doing permanent damage to my knees, my back, my feet. I was just on the line of pre-diabetic. My quality of life was great... I thought. I elected to have a surgery that I believe saved my life and made my quality of life so much better. I know you feel differently, and that is your right, of course, but to me, this is one "elective" surgery that for me, and many other obese people, was a necessity. I posted this a few years back: http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/308645-i-was-a-super-healthy-fat-person-until-surgery-changed-my-life-was-it-worth-it/?hl=%20was%20%20super%20%20healthy

I had CDiff after my brain surgery. Despite that complication, I don't regret my brain surgery a bit.

That's what she says about your "sausage supreme"!!!

Well, yes. But let's just keep it between us, OK? Ok. But it's not like everyone can't tell...

Safe in here? It sure as HE!! isn't "safe" out there for vets anymore. YEESH!!! Anyone else feeling that?

Because you love me!!

It's not a cheat, it's a choice. (I seriously wish the word CHEAT would disappear from common dietary vocabulary.) If you choose to go off your surgeon's plan, those would probably be your better choices. Personally, I would (and did) call your doctor and ask if you can add some food and see what he/she would suggest. I was heavily training in Martial Arts when I has my surgery as well as swimming for an hour a day. I was allowed to add unlimited non starchy veggies and an extra 4oz of lean Protein. But again, I CHOSE to ask first.

And did I mention I have had raging Water poo for most of my three years out? It's seriously ridiculous at times. When I have to go, I have to go NOW. Probiotics was MY answer somewhat. Someone else on this site who has since left actually had to have a fecal implant. (Yes, as gross as it sounds.) Most people I know who have lost weight rapidly have had their gall bladders out. I lost my little Joey (that was it's name -- I name all my organs) after a WWs victory and a run in with an Italian sausage. I am no doctor, but I have never heard of a medicine being able to stop that. Meh. Easiest surgery ever. I got three days off work and as an added bonus, I got to skip Turkey Day with the inlaws. WIN!!

For me, the key was being so $%^&*(&^% busy, I couldn't eat. Five days of that and I am back to the point where I don't WANT to eat.

@@GinaCampbell Ahhh... That makes SO much more sense. When you said EVERYONE you knew who had surgery had complications/regrets, I thought perhaps you lived in some sort of weird vortex of WLS disasters. Now, knowing it was people you met along the way, it's much more clear. I do think it's kind of an unfair statement. Of course the people who have complications will gravitate to each other. I belong to a WLS group that is comprised of the snarkiest, most sarcastic, foul mouthed, humorous people I have ever met and I love them all. NONE of us are unhappy with our surgeries and we all have the above characteristics 100% in common. Your implication that statistics are high on the complications side is just as weighted as if I were to say NO ONE I know who has had surgery has had problems regrets their decision. Same if I was to say EVERYONE I know who had WLS are sarcastic heathens, just because my peeps are. Birds of a feather and all that jazz... Make sense?

I didn't have to pre-op. The barium was my leak test.

@@GinaCampbell I am not and have not taken any "pot shots" at you here nor will I. My questions are out of genuine curiousity. Your BMI was approximately 48 (calculating 266 lbs at 5.2) when you started this (if I recall correctly) yet you consider yourself "lower BMI". What is your criteria for a high BMI? Also, I believe you said ALL your friends who had this procedure regret it? At first I thought you said 4, but a later post says 9. Were you the first to go? If not, why did you go through with it? You said they didn't tell you several basics about WLS (i.e. Not drinking while you eat, food aversion, etc.) yet you did two years of personal research and seminars? Did you visit forums like this one? The topics you were unaware of are discussed ad nauseum on most WLS forums. You are unhappy with your new dietary restrictions among other things. What changes did you expect would happen when most of your stomach was removed? I'm seriously puzzled at what you thought would be different. (Aside, of course, from your unusually rare complications.) You are seemingly very intelligent. I am seriously puzzled about some of your regrets as they seem like logical, often discussed, results of WLS. What were your expectations? Best!

Wait until you have to swallow that crap immediately post op. That was my only horrific experience with this process. The gastro Doctor performing the test had the bedside manner of a psycho sadist. He barked at me the whole time because I was gagging horribly and had tears pouring out of me eyes and snot bubbling out of my nose in an effort to hold it down. If I ever see that man again, l'll junk punch him so hard his part will fall off. Seriously.

Correct. Absolutely correct.

Vets are not the problem. The problem seems to be that outspoken, strong individuals, who stand up for themselves, are hassled in an attempt to change their behaviour and their comments. If you read many of the posts on this thread, a thread which makes the topic clear, I am being personally insulted. No content about VSG or bariatric surgery. Blatant personal insults, some of them trying to bully me off this website. Simply for having a different opinion than themselves. Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App The general consensus on this board seems to relate all these traits to vets only. Mine was just a random observation...

I survived on 300-800 calories a day for my first 6 months. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't easy. I just did it.

Xanax and wine helped at the 9 month mark. For real.

I got a dozen lashings, but it was via REAL Pasta and canned alfredo sauce, not a healthy alternative like spaghetti squash. THAT would NOT be appropriate at all!

I had the audacity to suggest that someone who was craving cheez-its while on the soft foods part of their program try REAL cheese instead. Cuz you know, real food, healthy fat, not a processed carb is clearly bullsh!t and nonsense when you are comparing it to CHEEZ-its.

Well, I guess the above one (you know, the one you edited) is SO much better!! Kisses!!

It's almost like you are two different people!! My day is great, too!! You all packed?