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Slow weight loss after Revision
Kimsmom replied to Kimsmom's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Thanks. Its what I am hearing. Trying not to be obsessed with the scale but dying to get this weight off! -
Exactly. Given the protein goals post wls, to achieve the correct ratio of fat required to be Keto-proper is challenging to do while staying under a certain calorie number AND with reduced stomach size. Handy calculator here for info purposes: https://www.ruled.me/keto-calculator/ I think alot of folks are likely doing something more along the lines of Atkins or Modified Atkins. I did ultra-low carb, with min protein and max calories goals during weight loss phase, and let the fat fall where it may. After goal, it took about 6 mnths to break this habit, and now at 3.5 years out, i basically eat whatever i feel like so long as i stay at or below 1800-2000 cals a day most days (i’m 5’2”). Its worth noting, however, that “whatever i feel like” looks alot different than what it did pre-wls. To the OP: do what works for you until it doesn’t, then do something else. Good Luck! ❤️
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Slow Losers Club…..officially *sigh*
Nikki@50 replied to TheWeightisOvr's topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
Hi HE_TheBrave, I'm experiencing the same slow loss as you. It's sooo disheartening and does make me wonder why I had surgery. The lack of weightloss is really getting me down, I'm not even managing 400 cals at mo because I feel so ill everytime I eat. What an expensive way to not lose weight!!! Hopefully we can motivate each other [emoji3059] Sent from my SM-G980F using BariatricPal mobile app -
Slow weight loss after Revision
catwoman7 replied to Kimsmom's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
It's pretty common to have slower weight loss with revisions than with virgin surgeries. -
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Slow weight loss after Revision
liveaboard15 replied to Kimsmom's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
What are your current weight and goal weights? it helps if you fill out your sidebar which you can do under your profile section and click on surgery. -
Slow weight loss after Revision
Kimsmom replied to Kimsmom's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
First surgery Vertical banded gastroplasty, permanent band. 220 pound weight loss but had much difficulty with nausea vomiting and stricture. Yes sticking to diet now.. just very nervous. Doctor says its because I dont have as much to lose. -
Slow weight loss after Revision
liveaboard15 replied to Kimsmom's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Your first surgery was a band? then you revised it to what in 2017? and you just had bypass a few weeks ago? Are you sticking to the program? Following the diets and such? But you are just out of surgery and healing. Some people are slower than others and some loose a ton of weight quick. But as long as you stick to it and follow your programs diets and recommendation you will loose the weight. -
I am having a very slow weight loss. I had my first surgery 3/2000 and VBG revised in 2017. I gained 80 pounds and had a gastric bypass on 3/23/2022. Wondering if anyone else had these issues?
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What surgeon at West LA Kaiser do you recommend?
justmeana posted a topic in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums
I start my options classes next month and was wondering about a good surgeon, I live in Bakersfield but would like to get my surgery done in West LA, I'm just a little concern about my regular doctor's comments about if I don't lose the weight I don't get the surgery and I'm just above qualifying BMI with sleep apnea. So I have questions about which doctor isn't as strict about losing the weight before the visiting the surgeon. I'm also doing all the classes online, how does that work about weighing me? Thank you :) -
Tips & tricks for the pre-op ALL LIQUID DIET!
fourmonthspreop replied to Vivis's topic in PRE-Operation Weight Loss Surgery Q&A
Congrats on reaching this stage! I found that isopure was pretty good when blended using a blender, a milk you like/tolerate, maybe some yogurt, ice and things like unsweetened cocoa powder, sugar free syrups or decaf espressos. You can make protein frappes so to speak by mixing up ingredients. In my liquid, puree and soft I did vanilla and caramel protein frappes using sugar free coffee syrups and decaf espresso. You can also mix isopure into things like yogurt and soup. Great way to get protein, 25 grams per serving and no taste. I found that post op premier and quest protein shakes were wayyyy to sweet. If I didn't blend my own shakes, I bought the chocolate ensure max because it has 30 grams and sorta kinda taste like chocolate milk. You can also blend that with ice and it makes it like a milkshake. The slim fast orange cream Low carb shake blended with ice is really yummy. Taste like fruity pebble milkshake. If you're sick of the sweet stuff, try broth make from bouillon cubes (more tasty than broth cartons). I've never had bone broth. I hear it's an acquired taste but supposedly some benefits to having it, maybe try mixing it into your regular broth for a full meaty flavor to differentiate from the sweet shakes. Anyway. That and sugar free popsicles got my through my liquid diet. It was nice to chew on something and I never want to see another popsicle again in my life LOL. I find that orange flavored popsicles caused some acid reflux but I had that pre op so it might be just me. Best of luck to you. The hardest part is getting through the first month after surgery but it goes by fast, you develop a routine and you see the scale go down so it's all worth it. I'm 3 months post op and back to regular eating. The only difference is I focus on protein, get full pretty fast and the weight actually comes off. Sent from my SM-G975U using BariatricPal mobile app -
Hi Capri. I took my partner and children along with me on this journey. They are my support. If I was single I think I would have just done it alone though. None of my extended family would understand why I needed to do it, and it's not up to me to get them there. Some of my siblings have struggled with weight, some haven't. None has been morbidly obese as I have, or spent their entire adult life either gaining or losing weight - basically starving or binging. So of course they won't understand. We do here, as lots of us have had the same experience as you. Hopefully as your sister sees you getting lighter and healthier then she will be happy for you. But you can't make that happen for her. Kudos to you for taking that first step to make YOUR life better.
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pre-op 2 months Pre-Op but can't stop binging fast food, pls help!
Wildflower Bohême posted a topic in General Weight Loss Surgery Discussions
TLDR: I am getting closer to surgery and can't seem to stop my RECENT daily habit of binging drive-thru fast food, which I do when I get anxiety about something. I hope someone can help. Full disclosure: I am about 2 months pre-op. The only thing I have remaining before my bari office submits my file to insurance is my last nutritionist meeting. I knew the psych eval was going to be a big deal, so I decided super honest with the psychologist. He cleared me for surgery, providing I get established with a mental health counselor and resolve my binging before surgery. I have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and PTSD (I also have severe obstructive sleep apnea and PCOS). I have now been seeing a counselor for a few weeks. Also, the counseling center's doctor prescribed me Prozac, which hasn't kicked in yet as I've been taking it for less than 2 weeks. My counselor has told me that her office (or the insurance?? idk) doesn't allow her to provide counseling on the symptom of binge-eating, but rather the childhood trauma behind it. I understand why that's important, but I can't wait to resolve my feelings about the trauma (could potentially take years!) to stop binge-eating and get WLS. I will continue counseling beyond my surgery date, but for now I also want to do what I have to to get the surgery! I talked to my bari office's APRN and nutritionist, and they said they have a list of eating disorder-specialist psychologists I could see, but I have Medicaid, and it's very hard to find any doctor outside of basic community health clinics who accepts Medicaid. They also said maybe the Prozac and regular counseling will help and that I won't need the specialists. I have a book that I think could help me, called the DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) Solution for Emotional Eating (recommended by other WLS patients who have my same surgeon). But for some reason I can't get myself to actually read it. I have some kind of mental block about it. I am willing to hold off on my surgery until I resolve this, but I really would like it to resolve in the next month or so, considering that just a couple of months ago I was not having this fast food issue. Not to this degree, anyway. Plus, eating fast food every day is expensive, and I have gained 6 lbs, which I must lose before submitting to insurance. I have little coping strategies for when I get anxious and want to go get fast food, but I keep ignoring them. 😕 Would appreciate any help at all! I'm getting desperate. -
We have all been in that moment where you are seeing surgery on the horizon and the creeping terror of the unknown is making you question everything. I was also very worried about all this, terrified even. I was convinced I would die on the operating room table and made sure I had a will in place before surgery just in case that happened. But, this is where the personal equation of risk is important: are the potential benefits of the surgery better than the alternative, which is the status quo or gaining even more weight, with little likelihood that I would be successful losing it and keeping it off. This answer is going to be different for each of us. I'm 8 months out, and still in the honeymoon period, but I can honestly - in this moment - say this is the best thing I have done for myself, and I wish I had done it sooner. Even if I don't lose another pound, I already feel 1000x better than I did, mentally and physically. I was self pay, too, so this was a huge monetary investment in myself and my future. Have there been challenges? Yes, but in my mind it is no different than the calculated risks people with other health issues have to take to chase potentially better outcomes. We all have to weigh the factors and decide what is more important: the possibility of success or the risk of complication.
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I started changing my habits as soon as I called the surgery center, and I didn't have surgery for 7.5 months after that. I worked really hard and lost 50 lbs. HOWEVER... around month 6 I was getting to the point where if I lost any more weight I wouldn't qualify for surgery (Insurance required a BMI of 40), so I started throwing food funerals and eating all sorts of things. Then I followed the two week pre-op diet with no issues. I don't regret changing my habits so early because the 50 lbs I lost are 50 lbs I don't have to lose now. Nor do I regret the food funerals. It helped me deal with the anxiety. And, like others have said... you WILL be able to eat most things again, just not all the time. I've had pizza and sweets and chips, just not very many of these things and not very often.
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I'm sorry you're facing this. I was fortunate to have a very supportive family, but it's not easy for someone who has always be thin to understand what it's like to not be able to lose weight and keep it off. I previously lost 50, then 80, and then 100 lbs but always gained it back. One of the surgeons I talked to said that if you are 100 lbs overweight, the odds of keeping that weight off for 5 years without surgery is like 1 in 2000! Surgery doesn't by any means guarantee that you will be thin for life, but it's better odds. It's not easy though
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I agree - set reminders to drink every five minutes take a sip, or if you can drink more at once, every 15 minutes. Keep a drink right next to you at all times. Getting dehydrated can lead to all sorts of problems, and is the most common reason people have to go back to the hospital after WLS. You will feel better if you keep drinking those fluids. You will loose less hair and muscle if you get your protein in. You will still lose weight. Good luck!
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In the early stages post surgery, many of us have to eat & drink on a schedule, regardless of whether we want to eat. I had no hunger at all for a while, but forced myself to eat and drink at intervals. Previous posted gave a good suggestion of setting alarms as reminders. I would also track carefully, with little goals like, "drink this 16 oz of fluid before XX time", knowing that if I didn't, I wouldn't make my fluid goals for the day. It is easy to fall into the thinking that not eating is okay and will result in more weight loss faster (I know my brain went there in the beginning sometimes, when eating was a chore), so when we don't feel hungry we can be tempted to just go with it and not try and stick to a plan. But, it's not true, especially if you are missing protein goals. Too low of calories is not good for us long term, and can have the opposite effect on weight loss. And lack of protein means your body may cannibalize your muscle instead of the fat we want it to use up.
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Thank you all. I did send her a bariatric podcast that goes into the research and why surgery is appropriate. I’ve also done therapy off and on since high school. What’s difficult is she’s always been thin. So she just thinks you can skip a few meals/eat healthier for a few days/workout more to lose weight. It just isn’t that for everyone. It’s frustrating to get no respect or support on something I know that I want to change about me.
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Hello Capri, No one can tell you how many diets are enough. You know when its enough. Mine was in the middle of the second covid lockdown. I had regained my latest weight loss and more. My health was deteriorating and I was needing more and more help and didn't want to go outdoors where I could be judged. The only people who know I have had this surgery is the hubby, my son and my long time school friend. Everyone has opinions and as far as I am concerned they can stick them where the sun doesn't shine. What they dont know, will not hurt me. I am meeting my sisters in June. They live abroad and I haven't seen them for 3 years. They may or may not notice I have lost weight.
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I agree 100%! and also, you'll eventually be able to eat foods you're eating now. Once you're a ways out, there aren't any food restrictions. Although if you're meaning things like sugary treats, pizza, and chips - once you're able to eat those again, you'll have to only have them as an occasional treat, and most of the time eat nutritious foods in smaller portions than what you're used to. Otherwise, the weight will come back on.
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Welcome. Not all but many bariatric centers require a psychological evaluation before surgery. As for supportive family i personally dont care what they or anyone thinks regarding my surgery. the surgery is for me not for them or anyone else. But i do have friends and family who prefer i dont get the surgery. But yea my bariatric center said those who are very overweight less than 5% ever manage to loose the weight and keep it off. Ive tried and tried and with the results of always gaining more weight than i started once i didnt keep up with the diets.
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Luckily, my immediate family was supportive, but there are lots of people on this forum in your situation. I totally get your experience with weight loss, though. I'm in my 60s and spend literally decades trying every diet known to man. In my more successful attempts, I'd lose 50 or 60 lbs (but most times, more like 10 or 20). It was just a matter of time before it all came back on. The problem is, you're fighting biology. And biology almost always wins. Fewer than 5% of people can take off a large amount of weight and keep it off. Weight loss surgery doesn't guarantee you'll be able to take it off and leave it off, but it greatly increases your chances because it changes some of that "biology" that's been keeping you from doing it. Your sister could stand to do a lot of reading on this topic as she clearly doesn't understand it - that is, if she's even agreeable to reading up on it. And if it's even worth it to you to have her on board. If she's interested, she could even accompany you on the consult if the two of you want her there. In the end, she's going to need to accept your decision, even if she doesn't agree with it.
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Good morning, I finally decided to take the step and do a surgery consult. I’ve been considering surgery for 10 years. I tried to talk to my sister about it and she told me I’m mentally I’ll and need to do counseling, that I have PTSD and if I just do counseling I’ll lose weight. Trust me I’ve lost weight before with diets and behavior modification! Then tells me I just need to do keto (also did that I need more veggies and fruits in my life). Anyone have not supportive family? I guess I’m sort of over working so hard (no I’m not constantly eating candy, chips and fast food like everyone says to me) and getting nowhere. About me: 41, she/her, work as a research RN, no kids, never married, 2 dogs. Living the fun life in the desert of Arizona.
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@CGA70 I did my surgery in Mexico, before getting discharge. They preformed a leak scan to make sure everything is good. Also, you follow up with them online. I have access to a nutritionist for a year ( they always reply to their email fast). To check my Vitamins and blood work, my doctor to that here ( in the states). Base on my experience, if the surgery goes well, there is not much to follow up. I mean the only follow up will be pay a deductible to my insurance so the surgeon can weight myself. Now if surgery don’t go as plan that’s when you will need a doctor. Of course in Mexico they are not crazy, they want more people to go there and they make sure they do everything perfect ( I’m talking about my clinic). He currently has more than 23k successful surgeries.
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yeah, I can get into the edit profile part but that only wants my date of birth and where I live - nothing about height and weight etc.
