catwoman7

sometimes people stop menstruating when they get too heavy - not sure why, but it happens. It can also happen when they get too thin. you may have just dropped enough weight that it's back again. also, like the above poster said, rapid weight loss can temporarily screw up your hormone balance because of estrogen being released from fat cells, where it's stored.

high liver enzymes are pretty common - rapid weight loss is really hard on livers. Mine stabilized eventually - maybe at 18 or so months out.

I have a sublingual (Superior Source), but you don't have to take K2 sublingually - a tablet will do. I just try to take some of my vitamins sublingually because I get tired of swallowing pills (and I'm not sure I'd recommend Superior Source's sublingual K2 anyway - it's too sweet. I like their sublingual vitamins D and B12, though) I take 100 mcg, which is the standard dosage btw, this one is MK-7. It's supposedly easier to absorb than the other versions of K2.

I don't think they really know for sure what all the surgery does - other than it works. It's definitely causing some sort of malabsorption because if you don't keep on top of your supplements, you can experience some serious deficiencies. I'm guessing these study results aren't consistent.

I started taking whole pills as soon as I got home from the hospital. There were only two that were too big to take - those giant calcium tablets and one other one that escapes me, but the PA at the surgeon's office said it was fine to wait a couple of weeks before starting the "other one" (for calcium, I just took a chewable one instead of the big tablets). So in summary, I never crushed pills.

4 years 3 months out. I'm taking: 2 generic equivalent of Centrum Silver 2000 mg calcium citrate (I have osteoporosis, thus, 2000 mg) 800 mg magnesium D3 K2 B complex carbonyl iron (with a couple of chewable vitamin C tablets) a megadose of sublingual B12 once every two weeks

yes I weigh 150 lbs now and have for at least a year, so a 12 lb gain. I seem to have stabilized here, though. A 10-20 lb bounce back after you hit your lowest weight is unfortunately pretty common - but this weight is still fine for me (even though part of me would love to be back in the 130s again!) as I mentioned above, I almost never went off my food plan while I was in weight loss phase (I do occasionally now - but I still log everything that goes into my mouth and cut back when my weight starts to climb above 150). as for exercise, I mostly did pool-based activities for cardio (e.g. water aerobics, swimming) for probably the first year due to my weight & arthritis. I went 2-3 times a week. I also did gentle yoga a couple of times a week. Once a lot of the weight was off, I added Zumba and other types of dance cardio. I still try to do cardio 2-3x a week and yoga a couple of times a week. I've also done a fair amount of walking this summer - 30-45 minutes at a time. I really should add in some strength training, but I hate it. Sometimes I'll do it for a couple of weeks and then give up. I really wish I liked it... So in summary, I'm not a gym rat, but I do get some type of exercise most days of the week.

I got that way when I was about three years out. I had a complete workup - nothing. Everything normal. Then I noticed once that I got a bad case of it about an hour after I ate a piece of cake at a retirement party. I asked my PCP if it could be RH (reactive hypoglycemia). She said it was definitely possible - it could be that my blood sugar was normal the day/time they tested it, so that wouldn't have jumped out at them. She said I could get a glucose monitor to verify - OR just try to eat something every 3-4 hours. Either a protein or, if a carb, then pair it with a protein. That seems to have done the trick - at least for me. The dehydration theory could also be what's up, though. (btw - during the workup they also checked my inner ear and checked me for orthostatic hypotension. They also did a urinalysis - not sure what they were looking for there - and did a complete blood panel.

I started out at 373, lost 57 lbs through my required six-month supervised diet + the two-week pre-op liquid diet. The morning of surgery I weighed 316. I was down to 138 lbs by about 18 months out. Have gradually regained up to 150 (but this is fine - I'm still within a normal BMI range) 3 months out - 276 6 months out - 241 1 year out - 187 P.S. I should add that this is not typical. I worked my butt off to lose this much. My surgeon said only about 10% of his patients that start out at my BMI lose all of their excess weight. The peer-reviewed studies I've read mostly agree with that assessment. But there are lots of people out there who've done it, so it IS do-able. It just takes a lot of commitment. I almost never went off plan while I was in the weight loss phase.

it's supposedly pretty easy to manage. It usually happens when they eat too much sugar at one sitting, so if you limit (or avoid) sugar, you shouldn't dump.

to gain seven lbs, you'd have to eat 42,500 calories more than your body needs. Unless you at 7000 extra calories every day you were gone, then it's likely mostly water weight.

actually, most RNY'ers don't dump - they say up to 30% do, so if true, that leaves 70% of us who don't. I've never dumped, although I don't feel that great if I eat a ton of fat or sugar.

you can do cardio every day. With strength training, you're not supposed to exercise the same group of muscles two days in a row, but if you want to do it every day, you can do something like lower body one day, and upper body the next. But your routine of doing cardio every day and strength training every 2-3 days sounds fine.

I had over 200 lbs to lose, so people didn't start noticing until around October (I had surgery in June), after I'd lost about 70 or 80 lbs. So I don't think they made the connection between my weight loss and the "staycation" I'd had four months earlier. By then, my weight loss had slowed a bit, too. I told most people that I was working with a dietitian, low-carbing and exercising like a fiend. I was more honest with close friends and other obese people (the latter because they'd know that was a bunch of crap), but skinny people believed that and were satisfied with that answer. Or at least they seemed like it - because they didn't ask further questions.

I'm not a revision so some of this I can't really answer, but as far as what you can eat, I can eat pretty much anything at four years out. I can't eat a ton of fat or sugar at one sitting, though, or I'll feel like crap -- but then again, we're not supposed to be eating that way *anyway*, so... btw - I went through UW as well

I don't think fat soluble vitamin deficiencies are a "thing" with gastric bypass. They ARE with the DS, though - those folks have to take supplements of those vitamins (A, E, etc)

nope - it just means you're getting even more water, which is never a bad thing!

that's a super low BMI for a bariatric patient (in fact, I'm a little surprised someone did it for you). Most of us are 40+ - and many start at 50+. You're not likely to lose as fast as someone who starts at a higher BMI.

I'm guessing you've looked at Dr. Katzen since you're on the west coast. He's very well-respected nationally in this subspecialty. I'm guessing he's probably pretty pricey, though

figs have seeds. We were told to avoid seeds early out.

early on we were just told to worry about protein and fluids - the rest would take care of itself. You're not taking in enough calories that early on to get too much fat or carbs. Later on I did focus on carbs, but I've never worried about fat. Four years out, I focus on protein and overall calories - I still don't worry about fat.

there are A LOT more people with the opposite problem (never make it to goal) than there are people who get too skinny. Plus you do have some control over that - just add calories when you feel like you're getting too low.

according to the BMI chart, the normal range for someone 5'1 is 100-130 lbs, so you're not underweight, at least according to the chart. Don't forget that many of us have a 10-20 lb rebound after hitting our lowest weight, so you may very well end up at 130, without even trying. to gain, though, you just have to increase your calories. But your body may just naturally bounce back. I at one time got into the 130s and felt too thin (I'm 5'6"), but I started regaining (without trying) in year 3 and ended up at 150, which is probably a better weight for me (and easier to maintain!)

I wasn't eating salad until I was about six months out. Raw vegetables can be rough on healing stomachs. I was eating either purees or soft foods at that point - yogurt, cottage cheese, hummus, refried beans...that kind of thing does your surgeon's office have any guidelines?

I can eat pretty much anything in very small quantities, but I can't eat a lot of sugar or fat at one sitting.