I am in process of getting the gastric sleeve surgery. My starting weight is 225, and I need to lose 80 pounds. I am afraid as I am sure all of you are. I have 2 friends that died from this surgery. One died 15 years after it because she was unable to absorb protein anymcanore. Her husband died too because he became an active drug and alcohol abuser as he had been previously. I do know that I have obesity related illness and chronic illness too, so if I do nothing, I will keep gaining and get more obesity related diseases. So I feel I have no choice because I do lose lots of weight, but I gain it back and then some. That has been my pattern all of my life, but managed to keep it capped when I could exercise. I have a chronic pain condition, fibromyalgia, and it kicks my butt and makes exercising, the fat burning kind, impossible for me, at least at this time.
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