Why We Are Gaining
This is why we are struggling so hard to keep the weight off - for every person reading this, please don't be hard on yourselves - there are reasons for what is happening, the trick is to become fully informed and knowedgeable so that we have a fighting chance - I refuse to go forward with my eyes closed and fingers crossed, hoping for the best:
The RNY only malabsorbs calories early out. By about 2 years or so, the intestines grow many thousands of additional villi to compensate for the caloric malabsorption--to stop starving the body to dealth--so that calories become fully absorbed. This is not the case for the vitamins and supplements, however; because they have no caloric value, they are still malabsorbed.
The RNY only malabsorbs calories early out. By about 2 years or so, the intestines grow many thousands of additional villi to compensate for the caloric malabsorption--to stop starving the body to dealth--so that calories become fully absorbed. This is not the case for the vitamins and supplements, however; because they have no caloric value, they are still malabsorbed.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
Well dang! Now what? I think we all suspected this was the case.
Remember early on when you had a bowl movement and there was an oil slick floating on the top of the water due to the fat you didn't absorb. Sorry for the visual. I knew I had stopped malabsorbing fat long, long ago. You know that diet aid, Alli? It is supposed to block fat absorption, but I've never seen anyone give any testimonials after the fact. Wynona Judd is a spokesperson, but I haven't seen that she has lost a whole lot of weight. The fat blocking part of this surgery seems to give out before too long.
I've done a lot of research on various surgeries, as we all have. I don't think there's any more success with the lapband. Personal observation is that there is less because everyone I've known has eaten around the band and ultimately stopped gettin fills. Not to say you can't eat your way around RNY. DS folks that I've known have ended up having serious corrective surgeries when their plumbing gave out and a couple of people around here have had to have as much of a reversal as they could. There's even less known about the long-term effects of the gastric sleeve.
I'll just sit on my plump RNY butt for now.
Remember early on when you had a bowl movement and there was an oil slick floating on the top of the water due to the fat you didn't absorb. Sorry for the visual. I knew I had stopped malabsorbing fat long, long ago. You know that diet aid, Alli? It is supposed to block fat absorption, but I've never seen anyone give any testimonials after the fact. Wynona Judd is a spokesperson, but I haven't seen that she has lost a whole lot of weight. The fat blocking part of this surgery seems to give out before too long.
I've done a lot of research on various surgeries, as we all have. I don't think there's any more success with the lapband. Personal observation is that there is less because everyone I've known has eaten around the band and ultimately stopped gettin fills. Not to say you can't eat your way around RNY. DS folks that I've known have ended up having serious corrective surgeries when their plumbing gave out and a couple of people around here have had to have as much of a reversal as they could. There's even less known about the long-term effects of the gastric sleeve.
I'll just sit on my plump RNY butt for now.
Good morning, babydoll - I'm sitting here giggling just cuz I'm seein' your beautiful face again!! 
The DSers on the Main Board are militant about the superiority of their surgery - not all of them but a strong faction -- to the extent they call people horrible, vicious names and use extreme vulgar profanity to dissuade people from posting anything that isn't a positive, affirmative statement about the DS. It's disturbing because so many pre-ops go to that Board to help them figure out what to do. I celebrate ALL WLS success no matter what people opt for, but there are pros and cons to each of them. Also, I know first-hand that the endoscopic 'revision' procedures (stomaphyx, rosE, etc.) do NOT work at all. I just want to be fully informed and knowledgeable about what's happening to me and why so that I can fight with everything I have to hold onto everything I've gained (except the weight!) with this surgery. I'd STILL do it again in a heartbeat. But so much more needs to be understood. I love you dearly, Conners!! About to head out with the little clown, Ollie, for our walk - it's a balmy 38 degrees in Connecticut! Be well, all. Maureen
The DSers on the Main Board are militant about the superiority of their surgery - not all of them but a strong faction -- to the extent they call people horrible, vicious names and use extreme vulgar profanity to dissuade people from posting anything that isn't a positive, affirmative statement about the DS. It's disturbing because so many pre-ops go to that Board to help them figure out what to do. I celebrate ALL WLS success no matter what people opt for, but there are pros and cons to each of them. Also, I know first-hand that the endoscopic 'revision' procedures (stomaphyx, rosE, etc.) do NOT work at all. I just want to be fully informed and knowledgeable about what's happening to me and why so that I can fight with everything I have to hold onto everything I've gained (except the weight!) with this surgery. I'd STILL do it again in a heartbeat. But so much more needs to be understood. I love you dearly, Conners!! About to head out with the little clown, Ollie, for our walk - it's a balmy 38 degrees in Connecticut! Be well, all. Maureen
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
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