Merryx

Well, being that I'm nearly 3 years out, I can tell you that once your belly completely heals...stay away from these!!!! You can seriously eat half of a large bag of lays chips with no problem, so if this was a favorite food don't get back started. After I had my twins (last January) and I was horribly sleep deprived, during my 3am feedings I started eating chips to stay awake. This turned back on my addiction to food and before you know it, I was eating several bags a week again and gained 12lbs! I'm now working hard to get back on track with my eating, but take it from me, don't play with fire. Once your stomach is healed you can eat everything you did before (good and bad).

Omfg is right!!!lol that is amazing, keep up the great work!

My babies are a year old now, but while pregnant with twins I only gained 25lbs. I was hungry nonstop! I seriously are every 2 hours, bit I think because I was carrying twins they were eating up everything which is why I barely gained. They say with every pregnancy you will gain 15 pound just from the baby an the Fluid. So I wouldn't worry about gaining weight during pregnancy. And btw, I lost all of my weight with in 3 weeks and actually lost an extra 10...though I gained that back in no time!!!
During pregnancy I started eating foods that I used to: chips, French fries, etc. basically carbs and anything bad. I guess from the lack of sleep with two babies I used food to help me deal with the stress. And my stomach totally got used to eating way more food and it never shrunk back down. I can't eat as much as I used to,but I can eat a 6 inch sub with no problem which is t good! I'm having a hard time liking the carbs being that I'm so hungry still all the time. So my suggestion is even if you are eating a lot, don't let the bad foods creep back in. Because now that I'm hungry all the time and I can eat a lot, it's harder to make good choices. Before when my stomach was small, I could make good food decisions be side I wasn't really that hungry. That is not the case now and it is horrible! I thought having the VSG I wouldn't have to really about food again, but now I feel like I'm on the same stupid diet roller coaster again!!!!

I started drinking about 15 months post surgery and wish I never started again. The diet soda will make you CRAVE sweets something horrible and after awhile you will start to give in to the cravings! Per Dr. Oz he said that when you drink soda your body doesn't realize that you aren't taking in real sugar, so it puts out insulin in to your body to try and deal with the "sugar" but then your brain isnt fooled and realizes it isn't real sugar, so to combat the insulin that has been put in to your body, your brain tells you to eat sugar, which is where the crazy cravings come from! Just thought that it was kind of interesting!

you are exactly correct! I had my surgery nearly 3 years ago and I can eat whatever I want. it's all about choices now which is a HUGE struggle (oh how i miss my tiny stomach!lol). so tell those people that say it's the easy way out to go somewhere!

I started drinking about 15 months post surgery and wish I never started again. The diet soda will make you CRAVE sweets something horrible and after awhile you will start to give in to the cravings! Per Dr. Oz he said that when you drink soda your body doesn't realize that you aren't taking in real sugar, so it puts out insulin in to your body to try and deal with the "sugar" but then your brain isnt fooled and realizes it isn't real sugar, so to combat the insulin that has been put in to your body, your brain tells you to eat sugar, which is where the crazy cravings come from! Just thought that it was kind of interesting!