TRYING TO DECIDE

[MzStockton 182]

Trying to decide if surgery the route I want to take to help me reach my weight loss goal. I'm currently 259lbs and my biggest fear of having this surgery is not being able to control my weight loss and I'll loss too much and look ill or I'll loose too much and it won't look good on me. I've seen the good and bad results on several whom have had the surgery some good and some bad... Just confused, can someone shed some insight on the surgery for me?

[GeekMomChanging 48]

I'm only three months out but so far I'm extremely glad that I did it. My only regret is that I didn't do it years ago.

I started at 253. I was forced to do 6 months of supervised weight loss. This turned out to be a great thing. I lost 40 pounds and I gradually brought my calories and carbs down. When I final had the surgery, it was good as my willpower was starting to wane.

I've lost 30 pounds in 3 months. This isn't much faster than before the surgery. The upside of slow weight loss is that people aren't constantly asking what happened. The world just thinks I've been on a diet.

I keep my calories and carbs a little higher than most (1000-1200). I find this range makes me have more energy and I can still enjoy food. I am now losing 1-2 pounds per week.

[Babbs 14,681]

I'm telling you right now, losing too much weight is not a common problem people have with WLS, ESPECIALLY with the sleeve. Now, we've all seen the bypass patients who get thin and due to malabsorbtion issues may look a little sickly, but the majority of people struggle just to get to their goal weight. The weight isn't going to magically fall off and you wake up one day and say "Oh my goodness! I'm too skinny! How did this happen??"

It takes work, and it's all up to you how far you want to go with it. If you are one of the fortunate ones who actually work the program and feel you've lost too much, you also are in control of balancing it out with the proper caloric intake to maintain an acceptable weight. Just like with losing it, it will be all up to you to use the tool the way it's intended.

Believe me, worrying about losing too much weight is going to be the LEAST of it

[CowgirlJane 14,260]

What do you consider "too thin" ?

I had to fight hard to get to a normal weight/size and yet I had a sister ready to stage an intervention. She has dismorphia the other way...normal size people look too thin to her.

Anyway truely becoming too thin is a rare problem.

[Stephanie Stroup McIntosh 157]

I also started at 295. I lost 32 pounds during my supervised diet and have lost another 30 pounds since surgery on 3/23. I already feel great. I think being realistic is your goals is important and stopping to really see how far you have come. Find out what a healthy weight is for your height and if you do get low, compare to the healthy weight. Also talk to your doctor and maybe a counselor. You can do this.