Question:
HELP!! I am gaining weight!!
Hi all. I haven't been on the boards for a while. I guess Life just got better for me and I don't have as much time. Anyway, I find that I am gaining weight. I stabelized at 157 pounds, and I now weigh 183 pounds. I have noticed that I can eat more. I am transected, so I don't think I have a SLD. I am almost 3 years postop. How can I jumpstart the weight loss again to lose those 25 pounds? Is there a way I can shrink my pouch? Any suggestions? Thanks — enjo4 (posted on September 30, 2003)
September 30, 2003
Hi Erin: Unfortunately I don't have any good suggestions for you, but I do
have advice. Whatever it takes, do something proactive to stop the weight
gain now before it gets worse. I thought surely I'll level out eventually,
but believe me there was no end in sight to the gain until I went over what
I had said would be unacceptable. Now, in retrospect, I wonder what made
me thing I'd level out, and why in the world did I take so long to do
something to stop it? I started gaining from month 13 on until I went on a
diet. Not what I thought I'd need to be doing, but it had to be done. Two
to four pounds a month each and ever month adds up pretty quickly after a
year. I've lost 1/2 of my 41 pound regain, but it has been dang hard. My
advice is don't let one more pound creep back on. Good luck. S
— sherry hedgecock
September 30, 2003
The 3-year wall. Get onto the Grad list, where others who have gone before
you can maybe help.................
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG
— vitalady
September 30, 2003
More excersize
— Robert L.
September 30, 2003
More exercise???? Robert did you even have WLS??? That's the same lame
advice I got over and over pre op. Geese. If it was only that simple we
never would have needed wls. Sure exercise is part of the fix but so is
trying to keep carbs to a minium. I'm 29 months post op and get on the
scales most every day. I KNOW WLS is NOT a cure. Everyone I've seen in my
area that has had WLS HAS GAINED ALL, MOST, or MORE back! I am NOT lying
about this. This is why I cringe when people come on this site all excited
and exclain, XXX amount of pounds gone forever. So knowing all this I weigh
daily. Only once did I put on 6 pounds after being a idiot and eating ice
cream for about a week. I stopped that nonsence and it took me two or three
weeks to lose that 6 pounds. Anyway, exercise IS good advice, but it alone
won't help us. Try to also cut down on carbs... preferabley QUIT them
altogether. (Something I can't seem to do). ;) Also watch your portions.
My guess is to eat many SMALL meals spread out during the day. THat might
get your metabolism going. I wish you the very best!
— Danmark
September 30, 2003
I am 18+ months post op and I started noticing gain in August. I tried but
I didn't put my all into it. In September I hopped on the protein train
and got out my old work out regimen from early post op and started from the
beginning. Protein Protein Protein, water water water, exercise exercise
exercise. And this morning I can tell it paid off. I had a pair of cream
pants (8) I tried to put on a couple weeks ago and could not get them to
button, well this morning I was able to get them on an buttoned. So its
working. I limited my portions and ate mostly protein. The carbs I take
in are whats in the protien I eat. Like eggs. I eat tuna salad, egg
salad, chicken salad, light n lively cottage cheese, and take a protein
suppliment before and after I work out. Its called Amino Infusion 5000 it
taste like cough medicine and 6 tablespoons is 30 gram of protein and the
rest I get from food. If I see my carbs are getting high I will take
another dose of the protein suppliment. I drink water everytime I think I
am hungry so I am drinking 5 to 6 20 oz. glasses of water just at work. At
home I have bought the sugar free popsicles, the stuff we start out with
firt post op. I also buy slim fast or fat free klondike ice cream
sandwiches if I need something sweet. This has helped me alot and now I
get full on just the 2.5 oz. of tuna salad and almost 4 oz. of cottage
cheese. I hope this helps good luck.
— Chris9672
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