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you're just in a stall. I had several along the way - especially during year 2. Just stick to your plan and stay off the scale for a few days. At 1000 kcal/day, you should still be losing weight. Protein and carbs are fine - I was not on an ultra-low carb plan, and I lost over 200 lbs. (P.S. some plans ARE ultra-low-carb, but others are not. We didn't have a carb limit at all. I usually had around 80 a day)

I was allowed to have a limited amount of clear broth and tomato juice/V8 every day (I think it was a cup of each), and I did have those every day - the sodium in them makes some people retain water, which can make you feel more "full" (well, less hungry, anyway...). I notice my clinic now allows the patients to have pickles and pickle juice on the pre-op diet. Same thing - sodium. I was also allowed to have sugar free popsicles and sugar free Jello - I ate both with abandon (sometimes I'd eat the whole thing of Jello (4 servings or whatever) in one sitting, because it was the only thing I could have which somewhat resembled real food. if you're one who's allowed one meal a day on the pre-op diet, consider yourself lucky. Many of us are on all liquid diets. It's tough - but we manage to get through it!!

yes - it's pretty awful. You just have to white knuckle it. I was relieved the morning of surgery because it was O-V-E-R!! (it's not bad after surgery since most of us aren't hungry then...) I had my surgery on June 3, too (of 2015)

that stuff is pretty harsh, so I'd just take whatever it says to on the box. Or else call you doctor and ask him/her...

not sure how far out you are, but I kept losing until I was 20 months out.

it can be done, but it's a complicated surgery and they normally won't do it unless you have serious medical issues that can't be resolved any other way. I'd wait and talk to the doctor first - they may be able to figure out what's going on and treat it.

Centrum Silver (and their other multi's for people over age 50) don't have iron. They have them available in chewables and gummies. (Centrum also has a liquid - but that has iron in it)

check the blog "The World According to Eggface". She has recipes for all the different stages

every morning after I get up and before i drink my coffee, I have 16 oz of water (or some other non-caffeinated, ultra low-cal or no-cal fluid). I started doing that when i was a few months out to help me reach my goal by the end of the day. That little boost first thing in the morning does help...

I kept changing mine. When I started, I weighed 373 lbs. When they asked me at the bariatric clinic during one of my first appts what my goal was, I blurted out 200 lbs, realizing that was probably a pipe dream and there was little chance of me getting down that low. So I was shocked when they said that was a reasonable goal (!). When I got down to 220-ish, I revised my goal to 180. The dietitian said I'd have to work hard, but it'd be attainable if I really worked at it. So then when I got there, I told her I wanted to shoot for 150 now, since for me that is within a normal BMI range She told me that that was probably unrealistic, that only about 10% of their patients make it that far, so not to get my hopes up - but I made it. Then I wanted to go lower. I just wasn't sure how low. So I had a DEXA scan at 146 lbs (the kind they do in sports labs or those commercial places, since those include fat percentage. The ones you get at doctor's offices don't include that). I told the scan technician I'd had WLS and wondered how much more weight I could lose. I was shocked when she said I was done losing weight - my body fat was 22%, which is lean for a woman. I couldn't believe it! Anyway, my weight kept dropping into the 130s (I was obviously too thin at that point - I looked pretty awful), but then, like most people, I put on 10-15 lbs during year 3 (the infamous "bounce back") But I looked much better than I did in the 130s. Mid-140s to low-150s is where I looked and felt my best (I've since put on about 10 lbs (depending on the day) thanks to COVID, which I'm trying to get off at the moment - but I won't go down in the mid-130s again...too low) anyway, suffice it to say, pick something that sounds attainable for you at the moment, knowing you can always revise it later.

actually, weight loss surgeries WERE very risky 25 years ago! I think that's what a lot of people are remembering when you tell them you had it. Techniques have improved drastically since then -- they're much safer now than they were back then.

did you just start the Depo? I gained a crap ton of weight on that (this was years before I had RNY, though). If you've been on it for awhile, then it's probably not that - you may just be in a stall. They typically last 1-3 weeks. You shouldn't be gaining on 1000-1200 kcal/day -- so I would guess one of the two former things.

no - but I'm always a little leery of weight loss gimmicks

I agree - I've had three or four of them (two before I had RNY - one several years before, actually), and they're nothing. They put you under so you don't remember a thing.

nervousness is very common before surgeries - I get freaked out every time before I have one!! I had to make myself quit reading the negative stories before I had my RNY surgery. I knew that major complications like that are rare, but they were still freaking me out. I finally had to make myself stop reading them.

vitamin deficiencies aren't common at all as long as you keep on top of your vitamins. My clinic has both types of patients (VSG and RNY) on the exact same vitamin regimen. It's just that if you start slacking off on taking them, the consequences are worse if you have bypass. Vitamin D deficiency is very common among the general population, not just WLS patients. I just saw a study online that said 41% of adults in the US are deficient in D. If yours is low, they'll usually put you on a prescription version. I had prescription vitamin D before I ever even had bypass. Once it gets to a normal level, you switch over to an over-the-counter version of vitamin D. with B12, you have to take it sublingually or via injection since the RNY pouch lacks intrinsic factor to absorb it. Most of us take it sublingually - although injection is an option if you're still not absorbing it properly. I think I read the usual dosage (with injection) is 1000 ml a month (although that's neither here nor there at this point). Most of us have no trouble absorbing it sublingually, though. The only supplement I take via capsule is my B-complex, but there are tons of brands that have B-complex in tablet form. the only large tablet I ever had were those huge calcium tablets - but you can find those in chewable or liquid form. Citracal also makes a "petite" version that is the size of a standard tablet.

I haven't joined any of the Facebook groups - I've heard too many negative things about a lot of them. This forum overall is very good.

most protein bars do have artificial sweeteners, so it could be some artificial sweetener you're reacting to. Sugar alcohols, those whose names end in -itol (like xylitol) are the worst offenders for causing gas and bloating (and sometimes diarrhea) redundant colon is an abnormally long colon. People with this have issues with gas, bloating, and constipation. So that's a possibility as well...

are you reacting to sugar alcohols or some other artificial sweetener? Could you be constipated? Or maybe redundant colon? (I have the latter - they discovered it during a routine colonscopy)

those things should all be treatable. I have RH - I'm just supposed to eat protein about every three hours - and if I eat a carb, I'm supposed to eat a protein with it. Dumping can usually be prevented by avoiding or severely limiting sugar. And vitamins - are injections or increased dosages not working? Have you been working with your medical team on these?

only about 30% of RNYers dump, so the majority do not. However, yes - there are some people who consider dumping an advantage to help them control their sugar intake. Some are disappointed when it turns out they're one of the 70% who DON'T dump. P.S. I've never dumped - although there have been times when I wish I did...

I lost 16 lbs the whole first month, and I started at 373 lbs. Most of us seem to lose around 15-25 lbs the first month, and those are with virgin surgeries, not revisions. And your surgeon is right - revisions tend to be slower - so suffice it to say, your loss is absolutely normal.

this is from the Mayo Clinic. It says here that even certain vitamins can cause it though, too...so it could potentially be due to one of the vitamins you're taking (I read in another article that if it's vitamin-related, vit B or D are the usual culprits). Or one of these: https://www.mayoclinic.org/symptoms/urine-odor/basics/causes/sym-20050704

some plans are low carb, some are ultra-low carb, others really don't focus on carbs at all (like mine). I never counted carbs - I just had to be sure mine were the healthy kind (fruit, vegetables, whole grains). And yes - weight loss slows down quite a bit after the first couple of months - but stick with the program. It took me 20 months to lose all my weight, but it's G-O-N-E!

you're down to your original surgery weight because, like most of us, you probably "gained" weight while in the hospital because of all the IV fluids. It can take up to a week for them to work their way out of your system. I've heard of people "gaining" as much as 10 lbs while in the hospital! fluids go through our stomachs really fast since our pyloric valves were bypassed, so I'd be very surprised if you could stretch your stomach from fluids. Maybe you could if you REALLY slammed them, but 40-50 oz over the course of the day isn't "really slamming" them. I've never heard of anyone doing that from drinking fluids, and we were never warned we could stretch our stomachs from that. So...I'm not sure what to say...