jarodnaaron

I am due to have my sleeve on 8/18. I am getting nervous. I was just on the veterans forum and I saw many people posting about weight gains, and struggling to maintain their weight using intermittent fasting. I used intermittent fasting, also a 500 calorie diet to lose 75 pounds several years ago....and it came back despite my struggling with excercise, sticking to a low carb, then moderate carb paleo diet. So, when I see people years post op talking about using weight loss techniques that I have tried and over time failed to stop regaining weight with....well it makes me wonder whether the surgery has lasting value. Will the sleeve help me lose weight? No doubt. Heck, I can lose weight on my own ( we all can) But what I am wondering if it will make it easier for me to maintain! I was hoping that after losing the weight, the sleeve would allow me to eat my normal healthy paleo way of eating ( Protein and vegetables and healthy fats) without always having to go hungry in order to keep from gaining weight. I am quite an easy gainer. Does the sleeve allow you to eat less food ( healthy food) and still feel full when you are greater than 1 year out? What benefits have you continued to notice after a year or more post op?

When you say no restriction , do you mean that you can eat as much as you want in one sitting?

I am serioeusly considering gastric sleeve surgery. I eat very low cr, basically like the paleo plan. I have lost alot of weight eating only about 500 calories a day, but now that I am eating " normally" I have basically gained what I have lost. The only way that I found that I can maintain is to excercise about 1hour to 1.5 hours 4-5 days a week. I wqs hoping that the sleeve would decrease my hunger so that I can eat less, as my problem is not waht I eat but rather how much I eat. I am concerned becaue I just read in another forum that after months post op, people start getting hungry. I read that you have to restrict your eating to 1 cup of food at time even though you may still be hungry. My question, is why get the sleeve if this is true. I can restrict my self to a cup of food per meal and still be hungry without the sleeve. I actually eat healthy food so I don't need the sleeve to stop me from eating massive amounts of carbs as I don't eat many carbs int he first place. What is the point of getting the sleeve ? I