Is there anyone at or below goal having trouble maintaining weight?

What I mean is :

Is anyone who is at or below goal having trouble NOT losing weight? Do you find yourself having to push yourself to eat so you don't lose weight?

Hi Anne,

I know, after we struggle so long to lose weight there are times it doesn't stop.  Call your surgeons office and take in your logs and they will point out ways for you to increase your food and stop the weight loss.

My surgeon said to increase my food intake by 500 cals a wee****il the weight stopped. It took a couple of weeks but it did stop.  I was weight lifting at the time and the cal intake was more than I imagined.  You know, after being told to only eat around 600 - 800 cals and then find out you can take in 2200 cals.   You are like, HUH?

Keep us posted on how it goes!

The OP still has a BMI of 43. She just had a revision.

Oops, my mistake....

Every last one of us fights to keep from gaining weight. Maybe 1 in 10,000, or 100,000, keep losing. And of those, there is an eating disorder or serious medical complication to blame.

We very frequently see people posting about being afraid of losing too much weight, of ending up sickly and emaciated. I'd bet most of those people end up being overweight still, and never reach their goal.

Some people end up with a meal schedule to make certain they get enough nutrition. They just don't fixate on eating they way they once did. Eating becomes part of a new routine, like being on time for bed, work, or picking up the kids at school. It's just something that needs to be done. But that's a far cry from pushing yourself to eat in order to keep from vanishing into nothingness.

Fight hard to lose the weight, as quickly as you can. Develpp new habits and attitudes. Your new mindset will help you when you reach maintenance.

But if I were a betting man, I would bet my house that somewhere between one and two years after surgery, 95 percent of people will feel like posting "Help! I've started gaining and I can't stop!"

ok, I noticed that both of you *****plied had the RNY. From the people I know who had bypass they are able now to take in more food than they were years ago. One of them gained back most of her lost weight.

But the sleeve is small and stays fairly small even years later. I hear vets say they average about 1000-1100 calories per day. And, with the loss of ghrelin the appetite is missing. 

I want to know what they face years after surgery. You can only put so much food in a sleeve!

-Ane 

Your understanding is not true at all.  It is very easy to regain weight with a sleeve.  You can eat high carb foods like potato chips, cookies, ice cream, etc all day long.  These food are high calorie and it takes much more of them to fill up your sleeve because they chew down to nothing.  While there is only so much food a sleeve (or a RNY pouch for that matter) can hold at one time, it is still easy to eat yourself into oblivion and, as a result, regain all your weight.

You need to remain focused and stick with a protein forward diet, eating smaller meals 4-6 times a day (depending on your plan . . . my plan calls for 6 small meals a day) or you will NOT get to goal and you will NOT maintain your loss.  You cannot bank on the hope that your appetite will stay away or that a sleeve can only hold a small amount.  Thoughts like can lead to nothing good.  I agree with Grim, there are significantly more people (both sleeve and RNY) who never make goal or face significant regain than people who struggle to keep weight on.  

I'm sorry, but you have a lot of BAD information.

There is virtually no difference between what a VSG and RNY person can eat after WLS. None. Some sleevers eat more yhan RNY, and vice-versa. So if you think you will be eating less than an RNYer, you are almost certsinly wrong.

I wish people would stop leaning so heavily on the ghrelin bullcrap. Ghrelin is produced in other parts of the body, and other hormones are also resonsible for hunger. Hunger is much, much more complicated than ghrelin. Again, no difference in that regard between surgeries.

Most VSG and RNYers have no hunger for 6 to 12 months after surgery, then hunger returns. Usually with a vengeance. Again, there is almost no difference between the two surgeries.

By the six month juncture, you WILL be able to eat enough to start gaining weight, if you are not careful. That goes for any surgery. It ain't magic.

You can put way, way, WAYYYYY too much food in a sleeve. Not steak or chicken, but many other things. Those things are also the ones that we shoveled in to get us morbidly obese. Not a single one of us got obese from steak, chicken or fish.

ok, ok, sorry...I get it :)