No,it's not "normal" if you had surgery to lose weight. A bounceback happens to some but not all postops. Check your eating - are you getting back into bad habits? Grazing, drinking with meals, snacking on the wrong foods, not exercising? Track your eating daily in fitday.com to see where you are and where you can make some changes. Up the exercise and water, make sure you're following the rules to be a successful postop. We gain when we take in more than we're burning off. Cut back on intake or up the exercise. Check with your doc if you're concerned or your nut for food ideas. Take the 13 pounds off before it becomes more - with this tool we now have in place getting back to basics lets us lose much easier than before.

No it's not normal to gain weight if you're trying to lose or maintain. If you need to get back to basics try doing what you did in the beginning to lose. Some find journaling their intake can help them find where they need help. Maybe you're grazing or snacking more than usual? Portions sometimes get bigger the farther out we are. Are you still exercising as much as in the beginning and getting in all your water? Find out where you need to change either eating or exercise. It's usually one or the other. After 2 years our body's get more adapted and we aren't able to lose like we did in the beginning and we have to watch portions and kinds of foods closer or we gain quite quickly. Try fitday.com and see where you are. For most of us it's just a matter of upping the exercise or cutting out a snack to lose any regained weight.

It's not normal,despite what some say about regain and it's a good thing you've caught it when it's easy to lose again. Check your eating habits, are you grazing, taking in too many calories, are you exercising, getting in all your water? Check on what you eat and drink daily and see if there's a reason for the gain. If you want to log it in daily on fitday.com you can get an idea what you're eating and how much exercise you need.

FYI - it's B-12

I have also had this problem you describe. I "only" lost about 80 pounds and when compared to others who went in the same time I did, they lost an additional 50 to 80 pounds more than me. I had to consider that fact that they were signifcantly larger than I was, and hadn't been carrying around the weight as long as I had been. It is very difficulty for me now to lose any weight (and I have gained) and I was never able to get to my goal size. I believe I have gone as far as I am going to go ( 5'1" and 180) and apparently it is not in the cards for me to be smaller. How do I know this? Because after 3 years of doing what you described, nothing has made me "smaller". That said, Check out this information on the "set point theory". It's not random or "quackery" and is recognized by eating disorder treatment specialists-- "The set-point mechanism, sometimes called the "adipostat," is located in the brain. This network of neurons serves to maintain an internal image, of the proper amount of adipose tissue for its particular body. The set point compares the actual amount with the internal ideal and then takes steps to minimize the difference. To the extent that this comparator is preprogrammed, it may be dependent on certain assumptions about the number, size, and location of fat cells" "The set point responds slowly rather than rapidly to deviations from the internal ideal. The set-point mechanism can also alter the efficiency of metabolic processes, making them more or less wasteful as needed to reduce or conserve energy stores. " (New England J of Med, Vol 332:673-674 March 9, 1995 Number 10)"