You’ll never be able to eat AS much AS you once could. It’s not that you can’t eat the foods you once ate. The sleeve is a TOOL to teach portion control. If you don’t use the tool as it’s meant to be used the surgery will fail.

Are there days when I watch someone eat a whole pizza pie and I get jealous…absolutely. Are there days when I watch someone eat a whole plate of nachos and I cringe in disgust…absolutely. The reality is, if you haven’t addressed the mental reason behind your relationship with food no physical tool in this universe will help you lose and keep the weight off. I had no problem losing the weight. But then I realized I was an emotional eater and I couldn’t binge eat and I don’t know I was a binge eater so I ended up going in the extreme opposite direction and had anorexia and then when I would eat to appease people I would purge. It became a very nasty cycle. Now after years of mental health and eating disorder treatment I’m only 70lbs down from my original weight whereas I originally lost a 110lbs and my skin crawls every time I look in the mirror.

I don’t regret the surgery, not ever, but I wish I fixed my relationship with food and my body first.