Hope For Second Year Sleevers

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

This last year has been very difficult for me to keep my weight off. I can eat so much more than I could at one year or even 2 years. It's so easy to eat with friends, and over eat, by not being conscience of my portions sizes.

It takes a lot more will power more than it did before, not to snack, and not to have dessert, when everyone else is snacking and having dessert. There are so many functions where food is being served and everyone is eating.

I wish it were like it was in the the beginning, where one chip made me feel like I ate the whole bag or one spoonful of food and I was stuffed for the night.

[O.T.R. sleever 3,386]

Thank you O.D. For adding some perspective to this.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

You're welcome. You know, when you have the surgery, you really notice how much everyone else eats. You think "how did I ever eat like that?"

Now, I have to really try hard to stay on track . It seems like everywhere I go, people are eating and snacking like no tomorrow. It makes me mad that it's so easy to join right in sometimes

[doxieville 799]

You're welcome. You know' date=' when you have the surgery, you really notice how much everyone else eats. You think "how did I ever eat like that?"

Now, I have to really try hard to stay on track . It seems like everywhere I go, people are eating and snacking like no tomorrow. It makes me mad that it's so easy to join right in sometimes <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />[/quote']

Hi! Thank you for being honest. Do you feel the temptation to eat all the time? Like you did before or just when out with friends?

I appreciate this topic & everyone's honesty. I think it really helps us newbies.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

I feel the urge to eat and snack all evening long. It when my head hunger goes crazy.

There is absolutely no restriction with snack foods. If I didn't weigh myself every day, I am sure I could put 10 lbs back on in nothing flat.

[Skittle 26]

O.D,

I'm curious, please don't feel like you have to answer if you do not want to share.

Have you gained much weight back? Or any? Where did you start and what is your current weight? Total weight loss?

I ask because I'm afraid that I'm going to get the weight off then put it right back on after a few years of stretching the pouch. I know it can never be the size it was pre op but still the fear is there. I'm still a newbie at this and learn something new about my sleeve daily. But I don't want to start out on that slippery slope backward either. I get very down watching others eat. I sometimes wish I could eat that whole sandwich w turkey ham cheese bacon lettuce tomatoe and mayo but I know eating even 3 bites would probably make me sick.

I still sometimes feel as if I'm going to be that one person who paid all this money and only be healthy for a couple years.

SW: 256. DoS: 248. CW: 219. Total loss: 37

Date of surgery - Aug 9, 2012

[lyndynojo 140]

O.D,

I'm curious, please don't feel like you have to answer if you do not want to share.

Have you gained much weight back? Or any? Where did you start and what is your current weight? Total weight loss?

I ask because I'm afraid that I'm going to get the weight off then put it right back on after a few years of stretching the pouch. I know it can never be the size it was pre op but still the fear is there. I'm still a newbie at this and learn something new about my sleeve daily. But I don't want to start out on that slippery slope backward either. I get very down watching others eat. I sometimes wish I could eat that whole sandwich w turkey ham cheese bacon lettuce tomatoe and mayo but I know eating even 3 bites would probably make me sick.

I still sometimes feel as if I'm going to be that one person who paid all this money and only be healthy for a couple years.

SW: 256. DoS: 248. CW: 219. Total loss: 37

Date of surgery - Aug 9, 2012

I know I'm not the orginal poster but maybe this will help some. First of all we don't get a pouch, we still have our regular stomach that functions just like before only much,much smaller. My doctor said that you can't stretch it out since he took almost all of the stretchy out. I am 14 months out and for the last 7 mo or so I have eaten anything I want and I do mean anything and I haven't gained a pound I also haven't lost anything, but I'm not trying to either. I'm really happy where I am. I do weigh everyday just to keep myself on track and I'm sure if I started throwing back milkshakes and candy bars willy nilly the weight would come back. It does seem like it would be an effort to really gain again though. This is just my experience but I hope it helps.

[Bypassjourney 88]

I am almost eight months out and I pretty much eat what I want. But what I have found like one poster said, now that I just act as though a normal person would, I don't have those obsessions to eat like before. My happiness with my new body is giving me the desire NOT to eat all the snack foods. I always heard the saying "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" but when I was eating my comfort foods I thought "yeah right!" Now, I get that saying and it is so true for me.

[Georgia 2,908]

Well, I wish I could be honest and say I'm not hinged and I don't want to snack and I like to eat really healthy but I would be lying so that cancels why I did this in the first place. I did easily lose 100 lbs with very little hunger in the first year or so. Once at goal, I gradually added back in some carbs and Snacks and my appetite for them grew simply because even though I still have restriction for dense Protein etc I can "eat around" my sleeve and gain if I choose. I have added back about 15 lbs over a year and now am concentrating on trying to eat normal and not deprive myself but watch what and when it does go in my mouth. My body does NOT want to let go of these extra lbs again. I admit I am not exercising right now. Too much stress and tired with all that goes on in my household right now. I do know this. I would gladly line up to do it again today of necessary. I am healthy, thin and plan on staying this way. But trust me at 2 1/2 years out I know I must work at it too. It is NOT a magic bullet.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

O.D,

I'm curious, please don't feel like you have to answer if you do not want to share.

Have you gained much weight back? Or any? Where did you start and what is your current weight? Total weight loss?

I ask because I'm afraid that I'm going to get the weight off then put it right back on after a few years of stretching the pouch. I know it can never be the size it was pre op but still the fear is there. I'm still a newbie at this and learn something new about my sleeve daily. But I don't want to start out on that slippery slope backward either. I get very down watching others eat. I sometimes wish I could eat that whole sandwich w turkey ham cheese bacon lettuce tomatoe and mayo but I know eating even 3 bites would probably make me sick.

I still sometimes feel as if I'm going to be that one person who paid all this money and only be healthy for a couple years.

SW: 256. DoS: 248. CW: 219. Total loss: 37

Date of surgery - Aug 9, 2012

I got down to about 7 lbs below goal. I expected to gain that back. It was in the beginning when I was so full all the time, snacking didn't even enter my mind. I was so full all the time, that the thought of putting anything extra in my mouth made me nauseous. Now I am 5 above my goal.

I think it would be really difficult to gain back the entire 100 lbs, but would be easy as pie to gain back 20 more in no time at all. It takes a lot of willpower now, not to eat the things I know I am not supposed to eat. It's hard.

Just like my mother used to say "if everyone else jumped off the bridge, would you jump too? Everyone else eats junk food around around me. My friends eat candy all the time and people want to go out for ice cream or. pizza, etc.

Plus, I can physically eat a lot more now. So if something tastes really good that we're having for dinner, it's quite easy to eat a bigger portion than I did a year ago.

Just know that this is a tool, and a tool you'll have the rest of your life. But you'll have to do your part too, because this tool can't do it 100% for us. It's still way easier with this tool I have now though, than all my previous years of yo you dieting.

I am 5 lbs above goal which I have been trying very hard to take off and can't. I can get about 2 lbs off but gain it back immediately if I eat anything "not on program". So I've been trying for months to get back to goal, but actually what I am doing, is managing to not gain more.

[pink grace 31]

Thank you for sharing your experience' date=' you have given me hope that I will to become a success story[/quote']

I found this so encouraging, I had got it into my head that if the smaller stomach helped me to eat less then I should loose weight and keep it off, and have been concerned with eating too little and going into starvation mode which can stop or slow weight loss, thank you for all the posts, it really is helping me in my thinking. The people I know who have no issues with weight eat what they want but in small portions, and know when they are full and stop eating. I am always hungry, and really hope that it is true that the hunger goes with the part of the stomach that is removed, and can know when I am full. Thanks again, :-) x

[feedyoureye 3,087]

Thanks for this conversation ladies!