HELP: Gaining Weight After Only 6 months from MGB

[MGBinIsrael 5]

@FluffyChix the average based on what statistic from where? Please send link to your source.

[Healthy_life2 8,322]

5 hours ago, MGBinIsrael said:

what I dont understand is how i can fit it all in. Isn't my pouch suppose to restrict me?and why am i starving?? If I was able to eat only 3 meals a day then I would not have had the surgery to begin with. I am starving all day, why?

Why?

I’m not sure if you are understanding what we are saying or if it’s something you don’t want to hear right now. Carbs will cause hunger. Soft foods will not fill your MGB. They slide right through. Dense Protein and vegetables will help fill your stomach and help with hunger.

Our advice is falling on deaf ears. Your nutrition’s plan is high carb and not to log your food. We can see why you can eat as much as you do, we can see the foods that have you hungry and starving.

[GreenTealael 25,120]

57 minutes ago, MGBinIsrael said:

@FluffyChix the average based on what statistic from where? Please send link to your source.

What does your Nutritionist want you to do? Just continue with that and see how it goes for a while...

[froufrou 678]

2 hours ago, MGBinIsrael said:

@FluffyChix with regards to your comment about how much men or women should lose according to your ‘stats’.

Whats true about one person is not necessarily the same to all.

Can I ask you... do you want help? You seem to be genuinely asking for help in your first post but you seem very resistant when people are giving you incredibly sound and knowledge based advice. I bet if you followed the advice of eating dense Proteins and giving up the sugar spiking (though healthy unprocessed) carbs, you'd start see results. Why not give it a try?

[summerset 5,265]

10 hours ago, MGBinIsrael said:

I am very surprised by the comments here. I do not eat canned, or processed foods, all natural, always organic, and always prepared freshly for me.

That's because many people on this board are very "anti-carb". Fresh, organic, not processed... doesn't count. If it contains "carbs" it's considered "unhealthy" by many users.

[summerset 5,265]

7 hours ago, MGBinIsrael said:

If I ate only 600-800 calories I would be starving.

Completely understandable. Even 1200 kcal is not really much for a male your height.

Did you weigh and track the food you eat by any chance to see how much calories you're really eating in a day? I know it's a real hassle but maybe try to track your intake for a week as accurate as possible?

As for the amount of food. TBH, I can't really remember how much I was able to eat 6 months after MGB. I'm about three years out now of my revision and eating two bananas in one sitting is no problem at all. However, I don't feel hungry for a whole while after eating them.

[sillykitty 10,716]

31 minutes ago, summerset said:

That's because many people on this board are very "anti-carb". Fresh, organic, not processed... doesn't count. If it contains "carbs" it's considered "unhealthy" by many users.

No, it's because if you eat more calories than you burn, no matter the source, you will gain weight.

I could eat Doritos and wash it down with Coke everyday and lose wight. Or I could eat "fresh, organic, non processed" fruits, grains, dairy, meats, and gain weight. Weight loss is (nearly) all about quantity, not quality.

You continually put forth this false premise that everyone on this forum is anti-carb.

The facts are @MGBinIsrael is currently eating a relatively high carb, high-ish calorie diet. He is unhappy with his stalled weight loss, and lack of satiety. He asked for help, but when given solid advice he either ignores or argues against it.

Edited April 5, 2019 by sillykitty

[Healthy_life2 8,322]

That's because many people on this board are very "anti-carb". Fresh, organic, not processed... doesn't count. If it contains "carbs" it's considered "unhealthy" by many users.

Not anti carb. My comcern is 267 carbs in a day.

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[summerset 5,265]

2 minutes ago, Healthy_life2 said:

My comcern is 267 carbs in a day.

Based on what calculation exactly? You did a calculation in MFP without even knowing how big these bananas or papayas are. Or how much these meat balls weigh.

When I look at the nutritional values of "banana" at CRON-O-Meter the first thing I notice is this: there are five different sizes of bananas alone listed and depending on how big the fruit is, the amount of nutrients vary big time and this is only one food of many.

Unless the food is really weighed everything is just a guess.

[summerset 5,265]

14 minutes ago, sillykitty said:

The facts are @MGBinIsrael is currently eating a relatively high carb, high-ish calorie diet.

The facts are we don't even know how much calories he is eating and neither does he because so far he didn't track his food properly for at least a short period of time (at least it seems like he didn't do that).

[Healthy_life2 8,322]

Based on what calculation exactly? You did a calculation in MFP without even knowing how big these bananas or papayas are. Or how much these meat balls weigh.
When I look at the nutritional values of "banana" at CRON-O-Meter the first thing I notice is this: there are five different sizes of bananas alone listed and depending on how big the fruit is, the amount of nutrients vary big time and this is only one food of many.
Unless the food is really weighed everything is just a guess.

If you read my entire post.. based on an estimate. Stated in the beging.

All we can offer is our experiences and opinions. ALL opinions are valued. Even if we dont sgree.

The fact is if you eat over your weight loss calories you gain weight.

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[froufrou 678]

59 minutes ago, summerset said:

That's because many people on this board are very "anti-carb". Fresh, organic, not processed... doesn't count. If it contains "carbs" it's considered "unhealthy" by many users.

Nobody on here is anti carb - these are clearly healthy foods however they will spike your blood sugar and leave you wanting more and leave you crashing very shortly after. Not to mention they also slide through your pouch. The solid advice given to us by bariatric surgeons is to eat dense Protein first before anything else.

[Healthy_life2 8,322]

1 hour ago, summerset said:

That's because many people on this board are very "anti-carb". Fresh, organic, not processed... doesn't count. If it contains "carbs" it's considered "unhealthy" by many users.

Who are these people that are on a no carb diet @summerset?

[MGBinIsrael 5]

So I switched up diet today, your thoughts:

9am - coffee with vanilla soy milk

12:30 - Protein Shake

1:30 - 3 small meat balls and small portion of salad

2:30 - frozen ice lolly

5pm - hard boiled egg

7pm - minestrone Soup with Beans

8:30pm - piece of cheese

I am so hungry throughout the day though, my hunger is back.

[GreenTealael 25,120]

3 minutes ago, MGBinIsrael said:

So I switched up diet today, your thoughts:

9am - coffee with vanilla soy milk

12:30 - Protein Shake

1:30 - 3 small meat balls and small portion of salad

2:30 - frozen ice lolly

5pm - hard boiled egg

7pm - minestrone Soup with Beans

8:30pm - piece of cheese

I am so hungry throughout the day though, my hunger is back.

Try drinking more calorie free items when hunger happens and its not a meal time, also if you make the ice lolly your self from a calorie drink you can eat a lot of those.

💜

Edited April 6, 2019 by GreenTealael