Need Help with Getting BOT

OK - I don't know if I have stretched my stoma or I am eating from head hunger, but I had revision from LapBand to RNY August 2013. Lost to 112lbs, now I am back up to 129lbs. I am at my breaking point. I graze all day long, on everything except for sugars. Chips, crackers, protein bars, nuts, you name it. I'm eating about 2500 cal a day and sick of myself. Every day I get up with the thought that I will get back to eating basics, and by 3 pm I have blown it. I also worry that I can eat so much in one sitting. I can eat 2 sliced of toast with peanut butter, or a whole bagel in one sitting. Should I consult with my surgeon to see whether my surgery is failing me, or if I have damaged my stoma or pouch? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

My guess is that you're eating from head hunger, emotional eating.  Grazing is a bad habit to get back into.  Reaching out by your post is great. You've reached out at 17 pounds regain instead of 25, 50+.  Give yourself a big pat on the back for being proactive rather than ignore the grazing habit and letting it continue.

Plan your day with the foods you'll be eating.  Around the 3:00 time frame, eat a PLANNED healthy snack.  If you eat a planned healthy snack, that should help you avoid "blowing it."  Continue eating a planned snack around 3:00  and see if that stops setting you up for blowing it the rest of the day.  

The foods you're eating of chips, crackers, nuts are snacky foods.  Substitute those with healthier foods.  The foods you're eating get us into the hand to mouth mindless eating.  Mindless eating and grazing are two habits that are so easy to return to and the worse habits we can return to.  Mindless eating and grazing are two of the biggest factors (imho) with regain.

Eat dense lean proteins and see how they feel in your pouch versus the toast/pb or bagel.  Protein sits in our pouch longer and gives us satiety.  Bagels, toast/pb don't give you that.  Eating the white, simple carbs are a vicious cycle.  The more we eat, the more we want.

If you are concerned about your surgery, talk to your surgeon.

Thanks, Kathy. Going to plan my meals, and see if I can fill this darn pouch with healthy proteins and snacks. I am so scared that I have stretched my stoma due to the quantity of food I can eat in 1 sitting.

Obviously not a doctor but (unfortunately) very experienced in grazing and weight regain.  LOL but true!  Talk with your surgeon about your stoma concerns.  Make sure there isn't an issue.

Eat lean protein for a meal for a few days and focus on how your pouch feels and how long you feel full.  

As far as quantity, I can eat A LOT of simple carbs.  A LOT.  Yet when I eat a chicken breast, I get that feeling of satiety that I never get when I eat the simple carbs.  

You can post here any updates.  I'm BOTTing with you!

I think it is a selection of food your are eating that is the problem. 

I could not even dream of eating bread.  Sure i could eat 2 slices of bread with PB...and then my system would ask for more and more and more...

But eating 2-3 slices of bacon, 2-3 scrambled eggs, with some veggies...that would keep my BS very stable and i would be full for a few hours. 

When i eat carbs - i can eat and eat and eat..and then i want to eat more. 

Dense proteins, with some fat, with veggies - and 1 cup even now, 7 years post op can keep me full. 

Drop the starches...or in the future you are not be dealing with 15-20 lbs gain, but more like 50-100...

 

Well, it makes me feel better that others can eat lots of these types of foods, also, I do feel full on just a little protein and you're so right about getting back on track sooner rather than later. Doing all the BASICS and now taking this journey 1 day at a time - holding on for dear life. Thank You!!

I think it is a selection of food your are eating that is the problem. 

I could not even dream of eating bread.  Sure i could eat 2 slices of bread with PB...and then my system would ask for more and more and more...

But eating 2-3 slices of bacon, 2-3 scrambled eggs, with some veggies...that would keep my BS very stable and i would be full for a few hours. 

When i eat carbs - i can eat and eat and eat..and then i want to eat more. 

Dense proteins, with some fat, with veggies - and 1 cup even now, 7 years post op can keep me full. 

Drop the starches...or in the future you are not be dealing with 15-20 lbs gain, but more like 50-100...