Weight Gain!

Hi All! I'm just over 3 years out from surgery and have lost a total of 174 pounds. I'm absolutely thrilled with the weight I have lost, but the last month to month and a half I have gained 10 pounds and cannot seem to get it off, no matter what I do! I'm sure this has happened to others out there, but what did you do? How did you handle it? Could the horribly hot weather we've been having have anything to do with it? Could it be the hysterectomy I had a year and a half ago be part of it? Maybe I'm grasping here, I don't know, but I sure could use some advice and/or ideas. Thanks May babies and God bless all of you!!

I feel the same way I gotr down to about 185-190 after surgery, but over the last year things have creeped up. I'm back to 220 and feel like a failure, which makes it worse. I think we have just become comfortable with life, and have been enjoying life way too much.

Hey Laura, I am in the same position. I have gained about 10 lbs. since WLS but I am okay with it because I had lost too much weight in the beginning. I started out around 225, size 16-18, and went down to size 6P, I can sometime wear some 6s but it has to be a regular 6. I am just happy to still be in 1 digit. I will start the panick if I get in double digits. Most of my clothes are now 8s. People still call me "thin" but sometimes I don't feel that way. Most my weight gain has been around my waist, but I am working on getting it down. God Bless Hettie

Hi Laura, Amazing I have found others with the same problem. Unfortunately I let myself go farther than that 10 lbs. Just keep exercising and eating right. I was ok with the 10 I gained. Everyone I knew that had surgery went through it. I had a couple medical issues that brought back my bad habits and I am up 40! Don't let yourself get there! I am really getting my butt back into shape! I feel like I did at 424 lbs.. I don't want to be there never ever again! I hope you are doing well!

Well, now it is 20 that I have gained and I am SO depressed about it. I do not feel full anymore at all and that scares me! I am going to call my doctor today and see if I should come in for a check-up. I don't ever want to go back to 350 again either. I'm calling my doctor right now!! You take care and keep me informed on how you are doing getting that 40 back off!!

Please let me knoqwhat the doctor says... I have gained 20 also and feel the panic starting again ...it scares me to death. I certainly don't want to be a statistic in the medical and weight loss community. LEt's beat this together. Cindy

Just a quick hello to see how you are doing? I am in the same boat but let it get to 50 pounds and all my clothes are tight and I can't afford new right now. Uggh its killing me. Can't get past the fact that yes I am eating like i used to. Really scaring me and I don't know where to turn LA

Hi-Even though You posted this back in December 07', I'm just reading it now and I had to reply to tell You that I, too, am having the very same problem. I'd say I have gained about 50 lbs. back too. I have been seeing a therapist for just under a year now, and I know why I eat when I'm not hungry, I just don't know how to stop it yet. I am eating anything and everything, although mostly carbs. I have been on disability for the last 5 weeks, and every morning I am at Panera for coffee and a pumkin muffie, with 2 pats of butter! God, I know that what I'm doing is soooo wrong, but I do it anyway! I am kicking myself, but I don't stop. I tell myself every day that I'll get back on track soon, yet when the time I had planned to do it comes, I procrastinate about it again for another week or so. I don't know what the answer is-I wish I did. My clothes are tight too...........I put the blame squarely on my own shoulders. If You should gain (no pun intended) any insight on how to remedy this problem, please let me know. The last thing I want to be is on a DIET! I HATE HATE HATE them!!! I just want to be normal! GOOD LUCK To YOU! Believe me, I know how You feel! Linda

My surgeon ordered an upper GI but I haven't been able to get back in to see him about the results. I'm sure they are just fine or they would have been more insistent about me coming back. I've realized that I need to stop making excuses for myself and just get back on my program. I am now down 15 of the 20 that I gained, so I know I can do it. And what did I do? Stopped eating so much junk and worked harder at getting my protein and water in. I started out officially at 329 (though I know I got much heavier than that) and I weighed 160 this morning. I may never see 150 but I'm okay with that. I look great and I feel great and I think that is all that counts, not what the scales say. But I'm like everyone else and want to see a certain number on that scale!! So if I can do it you can too! I wasn't feeling full because I was just eating junk-not good, dense, wholesome food. Once I started eating properly, I started feeling full. I'm pretty ashamed of myself, but I'm also proud that I stopped trying to put the blame elsewhere instead of squarely on my shoulders where it belonged. I will never be fat again, ever. And I went through too much to just throw this all away. Thank you SO much too all of you *****plied to me-it gave me the encouragement that I needed. I hope you all can get your weight gain back down to a manageable level. I know you can all do it!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and Bless you all!!!