I'll tell you one more story. Whether it will help anyone or not I don't know but I kind of feel like I've got this information in my pocket and if I don't mention it I could some how be responsible for someone else going through hell. I know that's not true and what ever anyone does is their own responsibility but it still feels that way but anyway when I went to the doctor about drinking too much she referred me to the local drug and alcohol clinic. They asked me to attend a support group, so I did, the first day I was there I met a lady who told me she had a bypass and afterwards when she drank (didn't wait the 6 months her surgeon suggested) she enjoyed how fast she could get drunk, bit like me - oh this feels great, 2 glasses and I'm pissed. I looked at her, she was about 18 stone. I said didn't it work? and she said yes, it did but i just kept drinking and eating until it all went back on. I had lost most my weight by then so she said she was jealous, I didn't really care because I was waiting for a liver scan, my LFT's were so bad I was terrified I was going to die of liver failure. My case is quite extreme. I think it's just important to have a healthy fear of weight regain and alcohol post bypass, be aware of it sort of thing but if you think about it. In that support group there was 5 alcoholics and two had a bypass (both enjoyed a drink pre op but didn't drink alcoholicly) and one had regained all her weight. Scary stuff.