I had one work friend who was a tall, kind of large lady. I remember her telling me that she used to be much larger, but had the WLS and lost a great deal of weight. Our office often ate out for lunch, and I remember that she would eat a bit, but almost invariably had to get up from the table and go to the bathroom. I am not sure what the complication was, but her surgery had been years before I met her and she was still having consequences whenever she ate. That kind of stopped me from thinking about the surgery. Today she is still a large woman. Seems like a risky thing to go through, especially since she seems to have been left with a lifetime of digestive problems and is still a large woman. No matter what you do to lose weight, you can't go back to eating the way that made you obese. I watched her weight slowly climb. I would hate to think I went through that and then gained the weight back.