I have had a big problem with gaining weight (ok like FOREVER!!) and couldn't figure out why, my calorie count was 1200ish on a daily basis so I started talking with my doctors nutritionist. The first 4 weeks she had me on a diet and I GAINED 12 pounds.... REALLY.. WTF!! So in tears I went back to her and she had done some reseach for me. She told me that my body, due the the RNY, was now treating 1200 calories like 2400..... WOW! This was the first time EVER that I was regretting having surgery. We worked together and  put me on a 800ish calorie diet(body thinks it is 1600??), lower would/could be dangerous to my heath and AMAZINGLY I started loosing weight again(10 pounds in a week), Im was not hungry and I am getting the nutients that I need. Has anyone else heard of this? I have "tested" it (on vacation and maintained weight instead of loosing when eating 1000)...... seems to be true.

Sounds like your journey has been "interesting"!  Good for you for getting back on track.  I think we all know what we need to do, it's just REALLY hard at times!  Hang in there!  You can do it!

Welcome back!!!!

It's been a LONG time since I have really posted anything here.  Most of the women I used to see on the boards appear to be gone??  But, that's alright, this MAY benefit someone here.

I was banded in March of 2008.  I lost about 40 pounds in about six months.  Unfortunately, I ended up with too much in my band and became way too tight.  (Took me a while to figure that out though)  I wound up getting stuck on EVERYTHING and most days "coughed it up" at least 1-2 times a day. Due to that, I turned to slider foods like applesauce, yogurt, ice cream, etc. and began gaining weight. So, in OCT of 2009, I went in to have my band emptied. I weighed 247.4 that day...about 1 pound less than my weight the day of surgery.  Weird thing about the unfill...they had put in 6cc's but 6.8cc's came out.
Skipping forward to now...I have regained ALL of my weight PLUS some.  I weighed in today at 273.6 pounds.  I went in for a fill...2cc's.  However, when she check it...found that there is 3cc's in there.  (Which means there was 7.8 cc's in it prior.)  SO WEIRD!  I asked if maybe it (my band) possibly builds condensation or something (seeing as how there always ends up being more that what was put in) but she said that it's usually the opposite.  Apparently the band can "sweat" and you end up with a little bit less liquid in it.  HUH, don't know what's up with me. 
But anyway, back to what I was origionally saying, I went in to get a fill and to get back on track.  I am oficially starting over today.  I have 3 cc's (2 from today and 1 that was "left over")in my 10 cc band, am on liquids/mushies for 48 hours, and am scheduled to go for another fill in two weeks. 
I'm planning to up my exercise, log my food/drink intake, and start attending at least one support group per month.  Hopefully it'll do the "trick".

So, that's my story...any questions, feel free to ask.  Any comments, feel free to leave those too. 

Hope everyone is doing well.

~Julie~

The other night a friend (who doesn't know what I did) told me I was shrinking, I just said thanks.  Then today the clerk in the post office said, "Wow you've lost a TON of weight!  You look great!" I took it as a compliment (what else can you do) and said thank you.  I guess it's really starting to show.  Less than 10 lbs and I'll be in wonderland, haven't been there for 10+ years.

Tami