------->Are still you losing weight after the first year?

Hello Everyone...

Oct. 26th will be my one surgiversary and I still need to lose 8 lbs to reach my goal weight of 135 lbs.   I have haven't lost any weight this month and I am concerned that the honeymoon is over.  If I gain just one pound, I start freaking out and exercise like crazy the following day, but I'm having such a hard time getting to goal... I am concerned weight loss stops at 1 year and will gain instead...

How common is it to continue losing weight even after the first year post-op?  Is it that much harder?   

Thanks for your help!.

Starting Weight:  228 lbs
Todays Weight:  143.0
Total Weight Loss:  85.0 lbs
Goal Weight:  135 lbs
Weight to lose still:  8 lbs

Do not worry, you will get to your goal.  I still can lose a pound here and there and I'm almost 2 years out. 

Joyce

ABSOLUTELY you can still lose after the 1st yr...I was still losing after the first 18 months, its just in tiny incremints (like 1-2 lbs a month)...

You've made fantastic progress...Keep following your basic plan and you will get there
 

This is so good to know... thank you so much for replying!

I lost almost 30 lbs between months 12 and 20 It just takes a lot more work --

    wow, I'm so excited... there's still hope!  Tomorrow will be my one year surgiversary !

Thank you for responding! 

Remember that once you get this close to goal, the scale may not be a good measure of your relative fatness. I know that my weight stays the same these days but my clothes get tighter or loser depending on whether I'm building muscle or gaining body fat.

I lost 146# my first year post-op plus 45 # I lost pre-op.  That put me nine pounds from my goal of 150#. It took me my entire second year to lose that nine pounds. That was frustrating. Now I am maintaining around 145 with flucuations depending on the time of month and my constipation issues. I would like to adjust my goal to a high weight of 145 instead of 150 and maintain around 140 but I am not stressing about it. It is much more difficult after the first year, or year and a half, but not impossible. Congratulations on your success!

It is difficult to lose after the first year and after the first 100 pounds.  Not impossible, but hard.  You can eat more now and you also will probably not gain any weight during the second year no matter what you eat.  That gives a false sense of security that your obesity has been cured.  It has NOT been cured.  During year three your body will learn how to absorb calories again and you will be able to eat much more than before.

The smartest thing to do for yourself now is to work very hard during year two to lose to your goal and then to get at least ten or twenty pounds below your goal.  Sometime during year three bounceback weight gain begins and that is usually a quick twenty pounds.  If you are below goal, then at least when the bouceback happens, you will be at goal again.

I know that this is not what you want to hear and it is hard to deal with.  But the truth is that many, many RNY patients have gained back all of their lost weight after five years.   The surgery is not a cure, it is only a tool that can be used to get rid of the excess weight and then used for a lifetime to keep your excess weight off.  But if not used properly, then weight loss surgery failure happens.

Good advice, thank you for the reminder.!!!  It's very scary !!  I don't want any surprise weight gain so I weigh myself EVERY day, so if I gain just ONE pound I am working out extra hard that day.   I pray I can control my eating habits for the rest of my life!