Surgery Oct 16th...nervous and unsure
 

Hello

I've been reading 3fatchicks for years...since at least 1999 when i was setting the world on fire with weight watchers. I lost quite a bit of weight (140#) but then gained it back, and now I have my surgery date for lap RNY. Thing is, it hasn't been that long since I lost the weight on my own and am wondering if I'm being too rash with my decision to go the surgery route. My main motivation with surgery is that I don't want to keep losing/gaining the rest of my life and feel like this will be a way to keep it off....anyone have any thoughts about pre-surgery jitters?

hey there wubby.. i went back and read your other posts, just to see what you've been thinking. and i can really feel your painj and frustration.

one of the main reasons i had the surgery was to stop the cycling. i can't begin to tell you how many times i had lost lots of weight, only to regain it.

but there are some other things to consider. you mentioned in another post that you have had problems with binge eating disorder., the surgery won't cure that desire. and in fact, it's possible to have the surgery and still binge [i know grammy and peachie don't quite believe that right now, but it's true!]

the surgery won't work unless you can make the commitment to following this eating plan, exercise, monitoring your blood levels, taking your vitamins.

there's no more emotional eating. no more using food to swallow your emotionsl

as for pre-surgery jitters.. well you sound human to me!!!! we all are concerned. it's such a huge unknown!

stay and post with us..

Dear Wubby, I too know how you feel. I have yoyoed all of my life and had the date set for the surgery three years ago and was told that I would have to change the way that I eat. On the way home from the appointment I decided that if I had to change the way that I had too eat that I would just do that. Well here it is 3 years later and I tried to change the way that I ate and nature cought up with me I developed diabeates and other weight related illness and did not lose any of the weight. I did not gain much but I did not loose either. My surgery was 8-29-03 I had the lap runy and as of this time I am not disappointed. I am very excited. I have not seen the scale go down at such a rate I feel like the weight is just melting off. I couldn't be happier. I know the risks I did a lot of research before I had the surgery. I am even willing God Forbid to accept them, but not to have the surgery NEVER I wish that I would have stayed with my last date. The only difference was that it was an open I had a lap. I liked that much better. I hope that this makes sense to you. Good luck. Love Marsha

Hey Wubby!

Jitters? you bet. Even when I was sitting in the surgery prep room just waiting to get wheeled in I thought...gee, I could just hop off of this thing and go to starbucks and get a mocha frappe thing and call it a day.

I am really proud of myself for going through it and I am glad that I did. The first three weeks were a bit rough, but now I feel pretty darn good.

But, Wubby? You need to be really sure that this is what you want to do. I will admit that when I first started going through the motions of getting the surgery that I did it with the understanding that I could back out any time I wanted to. It is such an individual decision and unfortunately, only YOU can make the decision for YOU!

all the best, Wubby...you can bang ideas against us any time!

peach

thanks for the input everyone! i meant to write more in my initial post but got interupted and thought i'd just hit 'send' and see what happens. For some reason ever since I started looking into this surgery part of me has been wanting someone to say "You dont' really need it" but it's awfully hard to hide 320 pounds, you know? It's time to get past the denial and see this for what it is, a way to help me be the person I know I can be.

I'm working on getting my mind around the idea that it's not going to be easy, but that my quality of life will be vastly improved. I'm also brainstorming everything I can do when the mind hunger sets in and tries to take over....

Hi Wubby. WLS is not an easy decision, it was one of the most difficult, life-altering decisions I have ever made. For me and most here, it is the last alternative in a life long struggle.

I had some problems following surgery with a few complications, but even with the complications, I'm so glad I did it. My life has been returned to me. I could go on and on about the good of wls, but it is your decison to make.

Good luck to you