HELP: Gaining Weight After Only 6 months from MGB

[MGBinIsrael 5]

It has been exactly 6 months since my surgery (Mini Gastric Bypass) and I have lost a total of 23.5kg (51lbs), which sounds good, but everything halted about 2 months ago, when I completed stopped losing further weight and now I have gained back 2kg already! It is only 6 months from my surgery, I haven't changed anything, my hungry is back and now I am gaining weight. How is this possible? I thought weight regain can happen but usually after 18 months after surgery, not 6 months. And I am no where near my goal weight, I was expected to lose 35kg-40kg and now after 23kg I have totally stopped losing weight the last 2 months and now gaining weight back already.

PLEASE HELP

[JessLess 1,163]

2 hours ago, MGBinIsrael said:

It has been exactly 6 months since my surgery (Mini Gastric Bypass) and I have lost a total of 23.5kg (51lbs), which sounds good, but everything halted about 2 months ago, when I completed stopped losing further weight and now I have gained back 2kg already! It is only 6 months from my surgery, I haven't changed anything, my hungry is back and now I am gaining weight. How is this possible? I thought weight regain can happen but usually after 18 months after surgery, not 6 months. And I am no where near my goal weight, I was expected to lose 35kg-40kg and now after 23kg I have totally stopped losing weight the last 2 months and now gaining weight back already.

PLEASE HELP

Shalom. Can you make an apt. with your surgeon to discuss it?

[KCgirl061 1,532]

Are you tracking your food intake? What are you eating? How much are you eating? You can't rely on your surgery alone to lose and keep the weight off. You may need to go beyond asking us in the support group for help and talk to your surgeon, nutritionist or even a therapist if you need help making the lifestyle change needed to lose the rest of the weight and keep it off.

[MGBinIsrael 5]

@KCgirl061 thank you for the reply. My intake has been the same, nothing changed. My hunger is back, which is also unusual as its ONLY 6 Months from the surgery. Why am I gaining weight? Surgeon didn't really have much to add, neither did nutritionist. I figure to ask the community if anyone else has experienced a complete plateau and weight gain of 2kg only 6 months after surgery

[KCgirl061 1,532]

4 minutes ago, MGBinIsrael said:

@KCgirl061 thank you for the reply. My intake has been the same, nothing changed. My hunger is back, which is also unusual as its ONLY 6 Months from the surgery. Why am I gaining weight? Surgeon didn't really have much to add, neither did nutritionist. I figure to ask the community if anyone else has experienced a complete plateau and weight gain of 2kg only 6 months after surgery

Maybe you're just retaining Water? Did you happen to have a high sodium meal?

Edited April 4, 2019 by KCgirl061

[FluffyChix 17,415]

What are you eating? Are you weighing and measuring and logging your food? Are you exercising. In order for us to make some comments or have helpful advise we need to see what you're physically eating.

How much are you eating per meal (by volume/weight).

[MGBinIsrael 5]

@FluffyChix I exercise 3 times a week, same as I have from a month after surgery. I can't believe there are people who reach even below their target weight. In 6 months all I lost was 50lbs (23.5 kg) and now started gaining weight back. I am much more hungry than I used to be. I don't understand how after only 6 months

[GreenTealael 25,360]

Shalom!

You may need to change up your diet again to break through a plateau. Luckily Passover is coming shortly so my advice is to get a head start with cleaning out your pantry of foods you think may be the culprit. They may be the same foods restricted during the season too. Then go super light and clean to see if your weight shifts again (water only, no cheese, no sauces, no grains -replace with salad/vegetables)

If this works then your diet was the issue and you were eating too many calories to lose.

Edited April 4, 2019 by GreenTealael

[FluffyChix 17,415]

5 minutes ago, MGBinIsrael said:

@FluffyChix I exercise 3 times a week, same as I have from a month after surgery. I can't believe there are people who reach even below their target weight. In 6 months all I lost was 50lbs (23.5 kg) and now started gaining weight back. I am much more hungry than I used to be. I don't understand how after only 6 months

That's why I ask you to LIST EVERYTHING YOU'RE EATING! Gah. How hard is it to do that?

At 6 months I'd lost most of my weight. At 9 months out I was at 1st goal of 150 and surpassed the weight goal my RD/doc had set for me. I'm now at 14 months working on my last Goal #3 of 130lbs. I'm at 137.8lbs today. So I'm clearly doing something right. There are stalls all the time. I continue to eat the foods that I know work for me. I meet my lean Protein goals for the day, I keep my healthy veggie carbs low, I keep fat low. I keep calories in a range of 650-850/day for losing mode. And that's what I do. It works. You cannot game the system. If you are stuck for months, then you are clearly eating too much or too much of the wrong things for weight loss. It's as simple as that. You are maintaining. Or regaining.

I take 2 drugs that can cause weight gain. And I have to be extra sharp to eat to my calorie/macro window so I can lose. Weight loss isn't impossible with underlying issues, it is just a matter of being much, much harder.

Edited April 4, 2019 by FluffyChix

[catwoman7 11,212]

4 hours ago, MGBinIsrael said:

@KCgirl061 thank you for the reply. My intake has been the same, nothing changed. My hunger is back, which is also unusual as its ONLY 6 Months from the surgery. Why am I gaining weight? Surgeon didn't really have much to add, neither did nutritionist. I figure to ask the community if anyone else has experienced a complete plateau and weight gain of 2kg only 6 months after surgery

not unusual at all to have hunger come back six months after surgery. Mine came back at five months.

Two months is too long to be a stall. It sounds like you're in maintenance. You may have to cut back on calories - the less we weigh, the fewer calories we need. Do you know what your average calorie level is now? If not, figure it out based on a week or so worth of eating - then cut back by 100. If after a week you're not seeing results on the scale, then cut back by another 100...

[GradyCat 3,695]

That's an awfully long plateau or stall. Maybe it's time to cut back calories a little and go back to basics? Are you drinking enough Water still? Hang in there.

[MGBinIsrael 5]

@GradyCat it feels awful to be stuck for so long. Why am I so hungry, its only 6 months from surgery. Feel very sad.

[MGBinIsrael 5]

@catwoman7 in 'maintenance' ? I hungry, constantly. Why is the MGB allowing me to be so hungry.

My daily routine of food and drink:

9AM - coffee, with soy milk

9:30 - fresh squeezed orange juice

12:30 - a bowl of porridge (Quaker oats) with a banana (its a pretty big bowl, always surprises me how I can eat it, given its after MGB)

1PM - then I am hungry again, after the porridge which also stuns me as to why, so I have 4 rice crackers with cheese on each one.

6pm - 3 small meat balls, some rice, a little sweet potato

7pm - tea with ginger, and cinnamon

8pm - a whole papaya and banana as I am hungry again

9pm - am hungry again, 2 fruit yoghurts

10pm - hungry again, eat some brie or other cheese, or a whole cottage cheese serving

This is my usual day, sometimes a little pretzels but this is pretty much it. It has been the same more or less since my surgery. Some days instead of meat balls its chicken or fish.

[nenes78 528]

I would recommend weighing and logging your food. I did a quick count based on average serving size and what was posted. I calculated about 1600 calories a day. If this what you eat daily and you're working out the same , your body has reached a balance, hence a plateau. You need to either reduce calories or up your exercise. That should throw the body out of its routine and get you going again. Not sure what your exercise routine is the 3 days but maybe include 40-50 minute walk daily, if time is constraint have like 4-5 10 minute walks throughout the day. Good luck.

[MGBinIsrael 5]

@nenes78 thank you for taking the time to reply. I have been eating more or less the same everyday, and it certainly has plateaued but the weight gain? I walk 3 or 4 days week about an hr each time. Just do not understand where the hunger came from all of a sudden.

Thank you and everyone here for your input!