I'm scheduled to have a DS in a couple months and I'm scared to death. I got on the forum to see if I could get some encouragement, but now I'm more discouraged than ever and I think I'm going to back out of the surgery. My life revolves around FOOD and I do NO exercise at all. After hearing all the stories, I can't even imagine how miserable I'll be after surgery. Sounds like I will have a terrible time to recover and I have a very stressful job. I may just go back on low carb and hope I can keep the weight off this time. :-(