Hi and welcome have been reading your posts this morning, i see you are going to have a band fitted for years now i always thought thats whay I would have, i always joked with my family whenthey asked what i wanted for xmas always said a gastric band. When I was referred by doc the Hospital consultant reccommended I have a bypass, I am fit healthy have little or no health problems was very morbidly obese almost 25 stone and would have ben 45 at the time. I eat healthily but naughty sometimes but enjoy a drink, they said a bypass would be more suitable. The bypass was the one thing my husband did not want me to have. When I came home and explained what the doc had said he was very quiet and i made sure he had time off work for the next app. so he could ask the doc questions to put his mind at rest. He thought i would never be able to go out for a meal or drink or have a normal life ever again. How wrong he was I eat roughly what every one else eats just smaller portions, much smaller, if i leave anything which is most meals I give it to him so he's putting weight on now, tough luck!! I am so pleased I had the bypass and it is working but my head is still craving sweet things which is really difficult at the moment as I m off worlk with school holidays so whatever the op just be prepared our bodies alter its our mind we really have to work on. GOOD LUCK will be watching for more posts xx