13 Months Out and Gaining Weight

[Yvonne47 86]

What is the rest diet?? Anyone??

The reset diet I'm assuming what you did when you first started the diet right after surgery

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[GreenTealael 25,359]

Congrats on catching it quickly everyone!

Those trigger foods just make you want more... sometimes you just have to give things up for good... Like Game of Thrones 😖

[Walter.Sobchak 978]

On 10/04/2018 at 11:55, tnks2hp said:

Walter thank you for the short version of the reset diet 🙂 I will try it!

I went to my appointment with my surgeon yesterday for my one year post op appointment and he said that at my current weight, I have far exceeded his expectations, and he showed me a bunch of numbers!

He said if I want to lose 10 more pounds, he can give me phentermine for a short time and referred me to a nutritionist. So I started the medication today! I exercise rigorously so I know it's that I'm eating more than I should and stop eating anything bad for me. Sometimes I think my whole hunger is back. Then I start tripping and thinking the doctor didn't make my stomach small enough, because he hadn't made the pouch small enough for another patient and she wasn't losing much, even though she was following the program. So she got and endoscopy done at another surgeon's office and sure enough, the pouch is not that small at all! So she is having the surgery redone, but the bummer is that the metabolic change that causes the initial massive weight loss can not be redone. She is having to do a bypass now!

The doctor also said that carbs cause your blood sugar to spike and then you experience a crash which causes you to crave more carbs.

It was a very good visit overall. I felt much better than I did when I went in!

I have said all along that my surgeon didn’t remove enough of my stomach. I swear my sleeve was never as tight as I thought it should be. Then again I also suffer from OCD and I worry about everything. I am wishing I had gone with ByPass surgery, but it is too late for that. I should also add that I never exercise. Like literally never. I haven’t been to the gym since April of 2016. I just cannot get motivated to go. I need to go, but just haven’t.

[Walter.Sobchak 978]

On 10/04/2018 at 07:20, Frustr8 said:

Walter, did I read somewhere else you are a fairly new father again? If so, congratulations and get back towards the right plan, you know you can get 'er done!😛🎃

Indeed I am a father again and it FREAKS me out. Just kidding, it has been hard having a newborn again but it’s cool. I think some of my weight gain might have been stress related. At any rate, I am down 5 pounds and sticking to a plan. I have cut out diet soda as my psychiatrist told me that apartame is really bad for you. It’s highly addictive and it causes mood issues. I noticed it makes my anxiety worse and my depression worse.

[Frustr8 7,886]

Now that does make more than a little sense, Cher may tout it, I sure don't . It always gave me headaches everytime I used it.

[Healthy_life 1,437]

16 hours ago, Walter.Sobchak said:

On 10/4/2018 at 8:20 AM, Frustr8 said:

Walter, did I read somewhere else you are a fairly new father again? If so, congratulations and get back towards the right plan, you know you can get 'er done!😛🎃

Indeed I am a father again and it FREAKS me out. Just kidding, it has been hard having a newborn again but it’s cool. I think some of my weight gain might have been stress related. At any rate, I am down 5 pounds and sticking to a plan. I have cut out diet soda as my psychiatrist told me that apartame is really bad for you. It’s highly addictive and it causes mood issues. I noticed it makes my anxiety worse and my depression worse.

Life's stresses. What ya gonna do.* Laughing* Congratulations on the new baby and finding what works to get the scale moving.

[sideeye 1,440]

Stress and depression absolutely impact your weight loss - the past month has been hellish on a number of fronts for me, and I’m now realizing how much my eating habits slid. Capacity hasn’t changed a bit, but frequency and junk content went WAY up. I can only imagine it was chasing an endorphin high I used to get while eating.

I didn’t gain but I did stall, and that’s not good six months out. Early this week I realized what was happening, went back on my depression meds (I’m reverse-seasonal, I NEVER take them in autumn), and refocused on what I’m eating and when. Lost 3 lbs this week, so it’s possible to get back on track.

Damn, though. Even when you intellectually know ahead of time that backsliding is possible, when you get walloped by a stress event (or ALL THE STRESS EVENTS, like this month) your old habits sneak right back in.

[Walter.Sobchak 978]

Yes, you are correct. I was stress eating and chasing the high. Like you said, my capacity only increased a small amount but I was eating more frequently and eating junk food and carbs.