Cried when I went through this. The excitement was overwhelming. Clothes that used to squeeze now feel comfortable - no more that horrible tight feeling. Just relief and freedom.
When I had surgery the doc was straight about it - most people don't end up losing all the weight or keeping it gone. Good outcome was losing like 75 percent and expecting some to come back around year five. His whole approach was data-driven because he wrote on this stuff.
Are you also taking a background GLP medication? The anti-inflammatory benefits are solid, but watch out - you could have tweaked something like a disk and not realize it, so don't push too hard and make it worse.