Amy, it's so good to hear from you. I think about you all the time and wonder how you are doing. OleAlvin's surgery was between Jiff's and your's. It was April 2005. And yes he struggles with the same problems. He like you ate small meals through out the day, (and didn't follow all the rules, no matter how much I fussed) He can now eat almost as much as before, and still wants to eat every few hours. He has gained back some of his weight, but not nearly all of it, but the thing that is his saving-grace it the fact that he is so faithful with his exercise program.
And my friend Pam who had the surgery in July 20004 has lost about 180 pounds. Her struggle is not eating too much, but the same old mental problems that put her weight on in the first place. She want to eat all the wrong things, candies, cookies, chocolate. She said the other day that she wished she was one of the ones who had the "dumping" problem, because she can eat anything and nothing makes her sick, so she keeps making the wrong choices.
As we said when we first started this thread back in 2002, some folk look at WLS as a quick fix or the easy way out, but those people have not lived through it. WLS patients face all the same choices and struggles as those who have never had the surgery, and still have them all of their lives. The difference is the choices we make.
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