Tips?

[mpt809 30]

Does anyone have any tips or advice on how to speed up the weight loss with gastric bypass? If so, please feel free to share with me!

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[James Marusek 5,244]

The three most important elements after RNY gastric bypass surgery are to meet your daily Protein, Fluid and Vitamin requirements. food is secondary because your body is converting your stored fat into the energy that drives your body. Thus you lose weight.

Weight loss is achieved after surgery through meal volume control. You begin at 2 ounces (1/4 cup) per meal and gradually over the next year and a half increase the volume to 1 cup per meal. With this minuscule amount of food, it is next to impossible to meet your Protein daily requirements by food alone, so therefore you need to rely on supplements such as Protein shakes.

So generally your weight loss comes off without very much effort after RNY gastric bypass surgery provided you following the guidelines for fluids, protein, Vitamins, exercise and meal volume. The only advise that I can give is that several individuals will commonly experience a stall every now and then. Your protein requirement is met by a combination of the protein that you obtain from meals combined with the protein the you obtain from supplements. So around month 2 or 3 as your meal volume begins to increase, you have an option. If you concentrate on consuming high protein meals, then you have the option of reducing the amount of protein supplements and the calories those supplements contain. I went from 3 Protein Shakes a day, down to 2, down to 1 and eventually none when I reached 1 cup per meal at a year and a half post-op. This is how I broke my stalls.

[mpt809 30]

The three most important elements after RNY gastric bypass surgery are to meet your daily Protein, Fluid and Vitamin requirements. food is secondary because your body is converting your stored fat into the energy that drives your body. Thus you lose weight.

Weight loss is achieved after surgery through meal volume control. You begin at 2 ounces (1/4 cup) per meal and gradually over the next year and a half increase the volume to 1 cup per meal. With this minuscule amount of food, it is next to impossible to meet your Protein daily requirements by food alone, so therefore you need to rely on supplements such as Protein shakes.

So generally your weight loss comes off without very much effort after RNY gastric bypass surgery provided you following the guidelines for fluids, protein, Vitamins, exercise and meal volume. The only advise that I can give is that several individuals will commonly experience a stall every now and then. Your protein requirement is met by a combination of the protein that you obtain from meals combined with the protein the you obtain from supplements. So around month 2 or 3 as your meal volume begins to increase, you have an option. If you concentrate on consuming high protein meals, then you have the option of reducing the amount of protein supplements and the calories those supplements contain. I went from 3 Protein Shakes a day, down to 2, down to 1 and eventually none when I reached 1 cup per meal at a year and a half post-op. This is how I broke my stalls.

James,

Thank you so much for this beneficial information. I will keep this in mind as I proceed with this journey!

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