Help, I'm slowly gaining back weight
You can check in here, every day. keep your mind in the game.
Weigh and log your food. Be accountable to yourself. See where you can cut back, then do it.
Dense protein first, at every meal. Do that, and you not only won't have room for wasted calories, you won't crave them.
Two years is where the rubber meets the road. The honeymoon is over. The real work starts, and it's time to bear down. It isn't easy, but it's doable.
6'3" tall, male.
Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.
M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.
Once you start eating more calories than you burn, regain happens. It is like starting a forest fire. It is easy to toss a match and get things going, but it really hard to stop the regain once it starts.
Losing 81 pounds means that you would need to eat 800 less calories per day than you did before surgery. The only way to fight is by counting calories. When I had weight loss surgery I thought I was done with calorie counting forever.
I learned that it is a balancing act. I log everything in My Fitness Pal and weigh myself daily. For me, I maintain at 1400 calories a day. If I eat an extra 500 a day I gain a pound a week. If I eat 500 calories less than I lose a pound a week.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
What, exactly, are you eating every day? Give us some sample meal plans so we can troubleshoot for you.
If you aren't tracking everything you put into your mouth using something like MyFitnessPal, start now. That's really the only way that you can know what you're consuming and what you need to change.
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)
Can you please be more specific? What does "eating good" mean for you? What, exactly, are you eating?
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)
Breakfast:
eggs/omelet
3 slices of bacon
coffee w/cream
unsweet tea
Lunch:
Baked chicken, fish, or meatloaf
veggie
1-2 peanut butter cookies
Snack:
Premier Protein , almonds, almond & chocolate granola bar, or pork rinds
Dinner:
Baked chicken, fish(sometime fried), pork or beef
This is the time I lose control and start grazing.
So I'd ditch the cream in the coffee, since that's a lot of extra calories. I'd ditch the peanut butter cookies at lunch too. Try to replace the snack with dense protein like chicken or beef.
For me, grazing was part of my binge eating disorder. Talking with my doctor and getting diagnosis + medication helped me to control the underlying mental illness there.
Basically, you're eating more calories than you should be and you've got to figure out how to change that.
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)