I had RNY in 2007. I will share some of my observations over the years. Most people with RNY lose about 100 pounds. Almost everyone regains 20 pounds in year 3. About half regain 50 pounds by year 5. Some regain 100 pounds by year 5. By year 10 there is even more regain.

VSG is only restriction, so the weight is harder to lose because you do not have malabsorption to help. Every calorie that you eat is absorbed. With RNY there are several years of malabsorption, so most people lose weight no mater what they eat. We tend to regain pretty rapidly after the malabsorption period ends.

No matter what surgery you have, the only way to maintain the weight loss is with diet and exercise. I rejoined Weigh****chers after two years. I was at my goal of 136 in 2016. I am now at 157 and that is with diet and exercise. I find it harder every year to lose or just to maintain.

The surgery gets the weight off, but it is the constant attention to calories eaten and burned that keeps it off. What I like about WW is no forbidden foods. I can decide to eat anything as long as I stay in my points range. I track my food and exercise. I attend virtual Weigh****cher meetings and I check out this site every day.

One thing that I tell myself everyday is that I am on a diet for the rest of my life. I never bought into the concept that it is about changing my lifestyle. I will always think about pulling into Dunkin Donuts or the Dairy Queen. If it were not for Weigh****chers, I believe I would have regained every pound that I lost. That is my form of therapy. I am glad you found a therapy that is helping you. I am glad that you are losing again. It can be done. Nobody has surgery, loses the weight, and keeps it off without working at for the rest of their life.

I'm bothered with the same problem right now. Supporting words like «things go well for you» don't really help. See no one replied with anything specific to you... How do you cope? I just hope I can fully rely on my surgeon. Heard that he's one of the best in this field. But to be honest this doesn't help at all, don't know how to stop freaking out.
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Successfully had VSG April 2018 and to say I had "amazing" results is grossly understated. My weight-loss was life-altering, better than $ex, riding on cloud nine, amazing. Over 80lbs weight loss my first year post-surgery! I was finally comfortable in my new body and confident with my new outlook on clothes. So why am I bragging? I'm not, I promise. In fact, I'm full of BS.

Because I'm fake-happy.

Because I'm pre-diabetic again.

Because I'm too fat to wear my work clothes.

Because I'm "only take photos of my face because full body shots show the real me" miserable.

Because three years later, the majority of weight came back and I feel like a walking, talking, text-book example of "what not to do" after WLS.

I'm not in denial of how my regain came to be. I know how it happened. I ate WHATEVER I wanted, however often I wanted it, and in quantities that I had no business shoveling down my throat. I would sneak a small French fry on the way home from getting my nails down. I would treat myself to a skinny latte and glazed donut in the morning because it was a Friday. I would grocery shop online and add that loaf of bread to my order, and some chips, and frozen pizza.

My body had changed; literally had 80% of my stomach removed. I physically changed myself in order to live a healthier lifestyle. So why keep torturing myself by making the wrong choices, over and over again? Because despite making a physical change, I neglected to acknowledge my mental health and destructive relationship with food. I never dealt with my binge eating disorder (B.E.D). In what feels like an instant, the urge to binge started pulling me deeper and deeper into the realm of regain and embarrassment by dangling an ice cream dipped in chocolate in front of my nose.

I've spent many hours laying in bed, replaying the food choices I made that day, recalling the "in the moment" happiness that eating comfort foods gave me. Donuts, cookies, peanut butter toast, fruit snacks, cookies, more cookies. And then like a mental light switch, beating myself up over guilt and the patheticness of not being able to control myself.

I came on here today because I needed to get these feelings off my chest. To have others just like me know that if they are struggling, then they are NOT alone. That the hourly struggle doesn't get easier, it just becomes different. More hyperfocused in areas that you've unknowingly and mistakenly neglected.

These past two weeks, I've been working incredibly hard at taking back control by relearning the basics with a nutritionist. And most importantly, coming to terms with my binge eating disorder by participating in eye-opening, weekly sessions with a psychotherapist. And I'm proud to say that I'm loosing weight again, yay!

I'd love to hear what others like me are going through years after VSG. Attach at element of normality to my lately thoughts and feelings by knowing I'm not alone in this life-long battle of bettering myself.

Thanks for reading. For understanding. For relating and/or sympathizing.

Hello need help I'm interested getting a revision from sleeve to bypass due to weight regain how can I go by doing that Fontana is where I go they are no help interested going somewhere else please help with any information

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