matvinixmom

Each pregnancy has made it harder to lose the weight. I am now about 40 pounds higher than my lowest weight, which was too low to maintain anyway. I had my last baby a year ago, and have only lost 10 pounds since my immediate post pregnancy weight. This time I am trying not to get obsessed and enjoy my life with my 3 boys, but I would really love to lose 20 or 30 pounds. I've been trying everything and yo-yoing for a year. I am really trying to stop dieting and just get back to a healthy gastric bypass diet. I also have been eating and drinking together and not doing protein first. It's tough, but not impossible. It's also important not to go crazy while pregnant. I think I gave myself way too much flexibility while pregnant, eating things that no pregnant woman should have, let alone a baristric patient should have. Remembering that I cannot eat what everyone else eats because I have had the gastric bypass helps. Finding this website also has helped. I am really trying to focus on my bypass and make decisions based upon my needs as an RNY patient.

I am almost 12 years post-op RNY and have had 3 completely normal pregnancies. Any complications had nothing to do with gastric bypass. With my first in 2010 ( 6 yrs post op) I told every doctor thinking I would be high risk or closely watched. They were just like "and?...." It was no big deal. They would have reacted if I was 250 pounds (SW). I think it is much healthier for you and baby after RNY than if you were obese. best of luck! Anyone who has pregnancy questions please let me know. I have had 2 csections(not due to RNY) and my last pregnancy was post tummy tuck. That was harder than post RNY! Hope everyone is well:) Sent from my iPhone using the BariatricPal App