7 year post op weight gain issues
Hi all. I am 7 years post RNY. I noticed a couple years ago I could eat more and was hungry all the time I went to my WLS to my surprise he said stop eating cheese and gave me a bottle of ephedra ( I did not take the ephedra). I still feel my weight loss was a great success initially I lost #160, over the years gained back 25# but am also still 100# overweight. My mind says I would like to find a surgeon to staple my stomach smaller so I can not eat as much I do not know if that is possible. I have pondered a LapBand but do not know if that is an option after RNY with stomach transection. I guess I am just wandering if any other grads have had the same problems or questions. Ann
It is feasible to apply a LapBand over the top of a RNY pouch. It would restore restriction back into the solution.
However, before going that route, would it not be advisible to first determine what is going on? Are you "eating around" your surgery (as they describe it)? What is your exercise level? How much support are you getting locally? Would additional local face-to-face support be of value? The point I am meandering toward is that you need to determine what needs to be fixed before attempting to fix it. This determination may require the services of both medical and mental health professionals.
And remember, a LapBand is no more fool-proof than a RNY.
Nowhere Man/PH/Jay
Thank you for the responce. I do have good support and do exercise. I have not decided on anything just thinking and "pondering" and wondering if other grads have had the same feelings etc.... I am not looking for fool proof nothing is fool proof I guess. As I said my RNY in my opinion was a great success and has been a fantastic tool I lost 160# gained 25# over 7 years for a final of 135#loss that's great but I started extremely obese and remain 100# overweight so am pondering ideas/options etc... hoping to hear from grads far out like me, 5.6.7 years to see if they suffer hunger as I do. Thanks again.
I am a 5 year post op.
Yeah, there are times I am hungry...and certainly much hungrier than I was early post op. I eat when I am hungry, but have learned to make good choices and to not let myself get too hungry because that has gotten me into serious trouble (made lots of bad choices/ate lots of crap) in the past.
From what you shared it sounds like you enjoy much success and quality of life from the weight that you have lost. How did you lose that weight? Can you go back to the same approach? Was it just your smaller pouch and reliance on your "tool" that aided your weight loss? Are you in a hurry to lose the remaining 100#?
Do you have the desire (want to lose it) or the commitment (will lose it) to lose the balance of the weight. You can do this without another procedure, it just might not happen over night. Then again, none of us got fat overnight either.
If you are not doing it now, start familiarizing yourself with the foods that you like, the calories that it takes for you to gain, maintain or lose (that means writing what you eat down and counting calories) and try to make simple alterations.
did you know that by cutting 100 calories from your daily intake for 1 year you will lose 12#? In other words, for every 100 calories additional you are eating today over the course of the year you will gain at least 12 more pounds!!! Yikes!!!
You didn't say what changed to make you start gaining weight, so I'm making some assumptions here that might be wrong.
Have you tried going back to basics, eating mostly protein with veggies and fruit? I know it's boring, but no matter how many procedures we have it all boils down to what we choose to eat. We can eat around any procedure.
Maybe your post scares me and that's why I immediately think you aren't following a good food program. I don't want to think people are doing all the right things and gaining weight. If that's the case I know it could be me down the road.
Best of luck in making the right choice for you.
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