Here we go again!

I used to post here all the time shortly after my RXN-Y in 2007. I had lost 165 pounds and felt great.

In 2010, everything fell apart. I had a partial colon removal, 8 bowel obstructons, and a hernia. It was the worst year of my life and the weight came piling back on. By October of this year, I had gained about 130 pounds back.

I decided to do something about it, so I went ans had a revision done this past Monday morning (Christmas Eve). It went absolutely perfect and I now have an even smaller pouch than I did when I originally had with the RXN-Y.

I'm very excited to begin the journey again. I'll be posting a little more than usual, for the extra support. I look forward to getting to know you guys all over again.

Welcome back!

Good luck.  Treat your revision as a second chance blessing, and WORK IT!  Good luck!

Kudos to you for taking the initiative!  You know what you need to do.  We're here to help however we might.  Brian gets us started each week with a Sunday morning weigh-in providing a thread of accountability.

Best of luck!

Thank you all for your responses. I am definately looking at this revision as a second chance to get to where I should have gotten before, but wasn't able to. Most people don't have the opportunity to give it another shot, so I realize I am fortunate in this. I'm still in the all liquid phase for another week, but look forward to progressing and begin the weight loss. I will definitely participate in the Sunday weigh-ins and also try to keep up with all the threads. I hope you are all having a great weekend!

Congrats on your 2nd chance!!.. Can I ask you how you gained your weight back? I'm not kidding or trying to be a smart ass. I lost 160 pounds, followed the program exactly. When I started to get too thin, I began snacking on treats and stuff. For the first 1.5 years my weight bounced up and down in the same 10 pound range. In the last 6 months I'm consistently at the top of that  range but I eat anything and everything. I live in fear of gaining the weight back, but because I'm still very limited by what I can eat at one meal, I seriously doubt I could ever gain back 50, or 100 pounds. I haven't had any complications other than some gall bladder problems and eventual removal surgery. but I actually lost weight after the surgery. Did your weight just consistently climb? Were you still limited in the amount you could eat? Did you gain it by constantly grazing?

Please don't take offense to my questions. We don't see people on here that often who have regained significant weight.  I'm curious to find out how it happens, what are the signs, what should I be aware of? Did you stomach stretch? Did you completely avoid the "protein first" and no drinking with meals rules and that caused the gain? 

If I constantly snack, I will gain, but we have drawers full of snack foods. I nibble on them, and am satisfied, or full. It seems the fat in chips and snacks, or the sugar in sweets turns me off after a limited amount. Whereas before I would have eaten every bit of the snack food in the house.

Because I'm at the high end of my regular weight fluctuation right now, I'm worried that "It's happening" that I'm going to balloon up again like I have after every other non surgical weight loss (diet).  so I'm desperate to hear any warnings you could give me. 

Thanks

John

Hey John,

First of all, I do not take offense anything you said or asked in this post. If there is any way I can help a fellow weight loss surgery recipient, I am more than happy, even if it is due to my failures.

I had lost 165 pounds and kept it all off for nearly 3 years. In March of 2010, I had lots of stomach pain. Went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with a hernia in my messentary. The blood supply was block to my bowel, so they went in and did emergency surgery. I left the hospital the next day. Two weeks later, I was experiencing a very similar pain. I went to the emergency room again and they found an obstruction in my small bowel. To make a long story short, from March 2010 thru November 2010, I had 8 small bowel obstructions that required an open surgery, the hernia in my messentary, and a partial colon removal.

This was the turning point of my weight loss. After the very last surgery I had, I suddenly felt absolutely no restriction, I could eat a normal person's full meal and felt hungry again within half an hour. I still tried to follow the plan, but even when I did, the weight would still come on slowly until I just got frustrated and gave up. Of course, I didn't give up until I had gained 50 pounds.

My body went through a lot of trauma and I believe that played a big part in my gain. Earlier this year, I went in for an endoscopy to see what was going on with my pouch and there was actually a large bulge that stuck out the side of my pouch. It wasn't that my actual pouch had stretched, but somehow along the way with the development of this large bulge, it acted as another compartment within my pouch that allowed me to hold more food than I was supposed to.

I don't think you have a lot to worry about, since you feel the restriction and you are still aware of your hunger and satisfied point. I had lost mine.

I'm on track now and am planning on doing it all over again without all the complications. Feel free to ask me any other questions that you feel like. I am more than happy to help in any way I can.