Help! How to restart loss 10 years out

I am back after a long time away. I find myself considering revision to get down the 30 pounds I have slowly gained over 10 years since RNY. I am starting to see comorbidities again and not happy. I want to try and drop this by getting back to basics before considering Lap Band revision or otehr method. Please help! Anyone who has been here or has words of wisdom please share. I am trying to do protein and veggies but need to stop grazing and craving. Should I do a week of high protein liquids?
Thank you,
Wendy

I found away to re-claim a smaller pouch and help with the problem you are having.  Just go to www.5daypouchtest.com.  There you will find a 5 day eating guide that follows the way you ate after your surgery. Liquid proteins then soft proteins then hard proteins.  Not only is there a step by step guide there are also wonderful reciepes that my wide an I still use.

It help me and you can use it any time you feel bad habits begining to creep back into you life.

Terry

Surgery Gastric Bypass
Date 11/29/10
Lost 167 lbs.

Hi Wendy. I am recently back from a long time away also. I am 8 years post op. I am going to try the 5-day pouch test. I hope I can get back to basics and lose the weight that I have gained. Keep us posted as to how you are doing!!
Good luck.

Tracee

Hi, I am nine years post-op. I have lost over 200 lbs and just had my fourth plastic surgery. I would say go back to your weight loss surgeon. I kept going back to mine to find more solutions because I wanted to have a normal weight, bmi, and be healthy. I needed a revision at 9 mos out but had to fight insurance for 2 years to get it... I had 2 sclero therapy, many appt back to the nutrionalist and exercise staff at my surgeons office. Just  keep pushing till you get the results that are right for you. Fight fight fight...that is what I did. I would love to share with you or anyone else my experience's.

Thank you. I actually have appt . Did sclero therapy help at all? Which revision did you do? Is it working?
Wendy

Hi Wendy, Here is what I thought about Slero Therapy...Yes you can loose weight for about 3 weeks due to the pain... I have had it done twice and found it slightly help full...but everyone's experience is different, ask your surgeon what kind of success he has seen with it. When I was 6 mos post op they realized my pouch was not small enough and it took 2 years of fighting with ins company to get my revision...I did not regain any weight I just could not loose anymore and was still over 200 lbs....they were seeing it as some what of a success because I was 376 lbs..and I felt better but I personally did not start this journey to stop short of my goal... I have had to fight fight fight....but its worth it.. I am 2 weeks post op of a thigh lift...the doctor moved 16 cm of skin he said that was the most he has ever taken off someones leg before..I would have thought some of that chub between my
 legs was fat but he said it was all skin...eeewwww  Don't give up!

Wendy if you will take time to look at all the forums on here, you will see that regain is considered 'normal'.  I had my surgery 11 years ago this August and back then my surgeon told me that the majority of WLS patients gain at LEAST 25% of their weight back within a few years.  The truth is that no one wants to admit that after a while most of us go back to eating the way we did before surgery and the weight comes back on. 
If you will notice there are people who are 'back on track' which means they are eating mostly protein, veggies and very little carbs and exercising.  Anyone following that regimen will lose weight, regardless of whether or not they had weight loss surgery. 
It's hard to admit it but we have to eat as though we had never had surgery in the first place FOR THE REST OF OUR LIFE if we want to keep the weight off.  The surgery isn't going to keep the weight off for us.  It's only a tool to help but not the solution. 
As far as having a revision, I just found out that a friend of mine had RNY when I did, then went to DS and is now having to have a reversal of EVERYTHING because she was so badly malnutritioned and has blood clots in all of her limbs - she is dying and may not make it through surgery. 
People are DYING to be thin - no matter what the cost.  If you have a revision, you are risking even MORE than you did with your original RNY years ago without any guarantee of more weight loss. 

I personally wouldn't risk it.  I've also gained 30 pounds since my lowest weight 11 years ago, but I know it's because I've gotten away from the basics.  it's up to ME to get back on track and do what is right.  I have to take responsibility for my actions and eat as though I never had surgery.

I don't want to risk having a revision of any kind.  There's too much chance of something going very wrong and at some time in my life I have to count on ME to be disciplined enough to lose weight on my own - without help.

Just my two cents.  I pray you will make the right decision for you....