In my nearly 60 years, I've never not been overweight. A couple times I fought my way down near 170 pounds, but it was like holding my breath and diving deep under water--unnatural and unsustainable.
Since I have no medical issues (relatives and ancestors also stout, vigorous, and long-lived), health is not a factor in my "to sleeve or not to sleeve" soliloquy.
Especially having to be a self-pay, I wish there were a degree of guarantee that my hunger would be dialed down. The best I can do is search for the existence of others who found their first, honest-to-goodness, appetite down-throttling and meaningful weight loss thanks to their sleeve.
I'd hate to take from our retirement fund just to amputate a functional stomach and introduce chaos into our routine and then have little to show for it. Too bad there isn't some kind of genetic screening or a way to check for the FXR receptor to rule in or out those whose hormones and bile acids respond to sleeving.
Thank you for entertaining my question.
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