10 / 15 year post ops

Hi How are you long post ops doing?.  I would really appreciate your advice as a ' newbie ' of 4 months.  What were the problems of getting the weight off and keeping it off.  what advice would you give.  What has been the very worst and best moments of your journey. Thanks for all the advice ! debi

I will be 13 shortly. I highly recommend hanging out on this list, too, altho you cannot post until you are a year out. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG

This OH Grad site will be an excellent source of info as it ages and longer term ppl are able to post. Right now the yahoo group is 9 yrs old (today, actually) and has an astounding collection of wisdom that you won't find in any one place anywhere else.

For me, my formula to have kept my wt off:
1. i have a distal rny (gives me a slight edge)
2. i still do 6 (180g total) protein drinks/day and 4 small meals
3. i take a lot of supplements, watch and chart my labs
4. still see my surgeons periodically
5. avoid milk like the plague
6. avoid sugar as best I can (sometimes it hunts me down and makes me gain wt)
7. do not graze
8. drink water almost exclusively
9. do not drink alcohol

I never have done formal exercise, but i'm not couch potato, either.

I think the main things are keeping my body well, well nourished so that my intestines do not try to "repair" the bypass and my body doesn't ask me to eat everything in sight, because i've got the actual vitamins/nourishment on board.

My dh is 12, and his regains have also been sugar related, but he has more issues with grazing. I never was a grazer, so it's not like I can really take credit for not doing it. I just do my meals, my proteins, vites, water and that's it.

OH! And while there were no online groups back in the dark ages, I've been involved with live support groups and/'or online continuously.