Any Successful long-term DS Vegans Vegeteraians or semi Vegetariams out there ?

Gwen M.
on 2/14/17 6:03 am
VSG on 03/13/14

For the same reason it's acceptable to tell people to stop smoking?  Just because we "need" a thing to be "happy" doesn't mean the thing is good for us, or that it's the only thing that would make us happy.  

There are other ways to be happy that are also healthy - this is one of those things that therapy can help with - finding better, healthier routes to health.  If you rely on alcohol for happiness, you're never going to be healthy.  If you rely on sex with young guys for happiness, you're never going to be healthy.  However, you CAN put in the effort and work and find other things that will make you both happy AND healthy.  

I see many people here who have been successful for 5+ and even 10+ years.  I agree that dieting isn't the answer, but lifestyle change and replacing your unhealthy habits with healthy ones IS the answer.  

You're clearly not at that point yet where you're willing to enact real change in your life - you're still looking for an easy fix.  But until you get your brain on board, no surgery in the world is going to give you long term success.  

Acceptance is all well and good, but it can be flawed when used to accept bad behavior.  

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

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dagosson
on 2/19/17 7:46 pm

You live to eat. I eat to live.

 

 

There is so much wrong thinking and or incorrect facts in your posts that I just want to shake my head and walk away. 

If your photos are relatively current, there is no reputable bariatric program in the US that will even consider a second surgery for you, and no insurance will cover it at all.

only you can make the choice to use the tool and the education you were given to lead a healthy life. What I or others say will not change how you live that life, but I wish you luck in your journey.

RNY 9/28/16 at Highland Hospital with Dr O'Malley

Citizen Kim
on 2/14/17 6:31 am - Castle Rock, CO

No surgeon will revise your surgery for a 25lb weight gain and those butter buds will kill ya 

Proud Feminist, Atheist, LGBT friend, and Democratic Socialist

Grim_Traveller
on 2/14/17 6:42 am
RNY on 08/21/12

You didn't gain this extra weight from eating healthy vegetables. You gained it from eating crappy carbs. You'd do a lot better by cutting the crappy food out.

DS isn't magic. And the way you eat, you are going to have severe protein and vitamin deficiencies if you revise.

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.

Sparklekitty, Science-Loving Derby Hag
on 2/14/17 7:08 am
RNY on 08/05/19

Why not just have lots more sex with your super-hot younger boyfriend to melt off those extra calories?

Sparklekitty / Julie / Nerdy Little Secret (#42)
Roller derby - cycling - triathlon
VSG 2013, RNY conversion 2019 due to GERD. Trendweight here!

(deactivated member)
on 2/15/17 5:32 am, edited 2/14/17 9:49 pm

He's not That hot lol and Very high maintenance grrr... I took him back to celebrate Valentines but really he's history. 

ladygodiva1228
on 2/14/17 7:56 am - Putnam, CT
Revision on 02/04/15
On February 14, 2017 at 12:22 PM Pacific Time, quutgrrl wrote:

I had RNY surgery five years ago.  I lost most of my excess weight and even had some plastics to remove loose skin and empty fat cells ( and have more to go) .  But I'm a lifetime overeater.  I LIKE delicious food and enjoy trying new foods .  I LIKE being able to eat extra bites.

The first two years post-op when I could live " off a diet" and still lose /maintain weight were WONDERFUL- the best years of my life .  I felt amazingly healthy, energetic, competent and beautiful.  I felt like for the first time in my ENTIRE life my body wasn't trying to abandon me by creepingly inexorably putting on fat .

In the last year or so things have changed.  If I eat " normally" I gain weight.  I'm up to size seven pants from size ones - which I can't even button any more.  I still wear small jackets but they're constricting me over the chest . I can't even zip or button up the many extra small ones :(

I work in front of the cameras.  To work, I HAVE to maintain my weight 20-25 lbs below where I am now .  I am NO LONGER WILLING to run 10 miles a day or otherwise act/be bulimic with exercise or food to maintain a certain weight THAT I MUST HAVE TO WORK AND STAY HEALTHY ( my heart, like many ex-dancers' - ex tiny people  is small- if I gain I will develop congenital heart failure ).

So here is my question- is it possible to revise to a DS or extreme RNY and both stay healthy and tiny long-term on a largely vegetarian diet ?  I just can't eat meat most days out of the week, nor fish.  I eat a TON of dairy which probably helps my bones but  not my weight .

I won't give up alcohol nor fat free dairy nor eating great food others prepared that has fat in it.

Thank you for your kind feedback ! 

Responses from India /Asian vegetarians and South/Middle American vegetraians would be especially welcome - I LIVE on Spinach Paneer , Alu Gobi and  exotic self-pollinating  corns and quinoa and cool South American high-protein multiocolored potatoes.

Some vegetarians MUST have chosen  more extreme weight loss surgeries from these countries  where a vegetarian lifestyle is acommon and accepted long-term choice.

 

 

The simple answer would be NO it is not possible to revise to the DS or extreme RNY to stay healthy and tiny long term without making the changes that are needed to work your tool.

You don't want to exercise anymore or give up alcohol which is worse than a high protein diet.  You are looking for a magical WLS that does not exist.   

Plus there is no sane surgeon that would perform such a drastic WLS on someone who only needs to lose 20-25lbs.  Like Gwen said you need to see a therapist and a dam good one who can help you realize your lifestyle needs to change or you will continue to gain weight.

Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150

Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl

    

Barbsleeved
on 2/14/17 8:09 am, edited 2/14/17 12:39 am
VSG on 08/22/14

We pretty much have to change our lifestyle and watch our diets to maintain our weight. We are formerly obese people, therefore our bodies will continue to fight to get back to that place.Over reliance on the tool itself just won't work in the long run, because as you are seeing at 5 years out, the tool becomes less effective over time. Another revision won't be the answer. 

It seems to me you have a couple of choices, because if you are at a normal weight, no self respecting Bariatric Surgeon should touch you with a 10 foot pole. 

One: Keep your intense workout routine and eat healthy because you like the benefit it gives you or, 

B: Accept that you are not perfect, and no matter how much you strive to be it will never be good enough. Therefore, slow your roll, but still find that place where you can maintain but not have to kill yourself to do it.  You say you're in therapy? Ask them to help you work on understanding your self worth isn't just your weight or the way you look. 

 

BE STRONGER THAN YOUR EXCUSES. 

VSGAnn2014
on 2/14/17 8:33 am
VSG on 08/14/14

Sounds like your 25-pound weight problem is about to be a thing of the past and, in its place, you're going to have a 50-pound weight problem.  

Everything I'd suggest you do you've already said you aren't willing to do.  

So I got nuthin'.  

 

ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22

POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.

catwoman7
on 2/14/17 8:40 am, edited 2/14/17 2:15 am
RNY on 06/03/15

I spent a lot of time watching what "normal" people (who were all women, btw) ate when I was pre-surgery, and I came to the conclusion that a lot of them really don't eat very much - not much more than I do now.  Yes - I do have a handful of friends and co-workers who seem to be able to eat whatever they want, but I noticed so many more *****gularly eat these microscopic meals like a thing of yogurt and a half a bagel.  Or half a sandwich, some baby carrots, and an apple.  I'm sure they go out to restaurants and splurge occasionally, but it seems like most of the time, they really don't eat all that much.   I think that's just what it takes for a lot of us to stay normal weight, unfortunately.

RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)

HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163

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