HI Y'all,

I wanted to do some research with REAL people instead of reading about it in some report.

I'm wondering how much weight (IF ANY) you have gained since being sleeved. I go up between 1-3 lbs. so my answer would be 1-5 lbs.

I'm curious to see how this goes.

Thanks!

Sleeve4me, you look totally gorgeous!! I'm also up 12-15 lb, so I feel ya.

It's hard. There is no doubt about it. It's no different than before when we tried and tried to keep the weight off. I am glad I am not battling it at 237 lbs, but I am still constantly dieting so that I don't gain .

Life is fattening. Everywhere I go, there are candy bowls, or friends eating chips and guacamole, etc.

If I want to stay at goal, it's 3 smalls meals and 2 small Snacks for the rest of my life. It's not always easy to live that way. It's definitely easier than having no tool at all, but its not easy.

Daisy...u said it. But my brain is always screaming at me just like before the sleeve and before the pills. Before I step on the scale I think of a weight and its always 100 plus what I am. So I feel like I dodged a bullet in the morning.

I am pleased to be fighting 194 rather than 428. Of course. Yet someone told me I look gorgeous yesterday. My hidden reaction was ro put up two hands and block out her face. My brain started screaming :hahaha u ate those ice pops and it doesn't show. Hahaha u ate the Soup and no one knows. So of course when I got home I ate like a pig.

Now there is where they need to develop surgery or some draconian medical procedure that will be a real cure. Therapy , in so many different flavors, has not helped yet . I've been at it since im a teenager.

I have gained 3 to 5 pounds since weight-loss surgery October 8

Will be 18 months

Edited October 5, 201411 yr by bgirl48

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Looking good!

Gets me thinking how nobody vets the members here and we dont know if we are talking to bonafide sleevers or wannabes. But we are fairly anonymous here so its a good set up..

maybe a caveat would be in order: please check neuroses/psychoses at the door

I'm one year & 4 months out from gastric sleeve surgery. I lost 50 lbs. initially, but got on a major weight loss stall after about 7 months post-op. Since then, I've managed to put 16 lbs back on. I am so frustrated and disappointed in myself. I can't seem to get back on track. The frustration leads to stress, which leads to using food to self-soothe, and the vicious cycle continues. I can't do much in the way of exercise because of many chronic back and neck issues. Sorry for being a downer. I'm just really frustrated and disappointed. I wish I had more motivation. It is just very difficult when you see no change in the scale, then start seeing those numbers climb. Ugh. Thanks for listening.

I'm one year & 4 months out from gastric sleeve surgery. I lost 50 lbs. initially, but got on a major weight loss stall after about 7 months post-op. Since then, I've managed to put 16 lbs back on. I am so frustrated and disappointed in myself. I can't seem to get back on track. The frustration leads to stress, which leads to using food to self-soothe, and the vicious cycle continues. I can't do much in the way of exercise because of many chronic back and neck issues. Sorry for being a downer. I'm just really frustrated and disappointed. I wish I had more motivation. It is just very difficult when you see no change in the scale, then start seeing those numbers climb. Ugh. Thanks for listening.

Join us in the veterans forum. There are a lot of us who are fighting weight gain after being sleeved awhile.

You can do it. You need motivation from the rest of us. There is also a maintenance thread in there. It helps to be accountable. I am working on 10 right now.

Thanks so much, OregonDaisy!

I'm one year & 4 months out from gastric sleeve surgery. I lost 50 lbs. initially, but got on a major weight loss stall after about 7 months post-op. Since then, I've managed to put 16 lbs back on. I am so frustrated and disappointed in myself. I can't seem to get back on track. The frustration leads to stress, which leads to using food to self-soothe, and the vicious cycle continues. I can't do much in the way of exercise because of many chronic back and neck issues. Sorry for being a downer. I'm just really frustrated and disappointed. I wish I had more motivation. It is just very difficult when you see no change in the scale, then start seeing those numbers climb. Ugh. Thanks for listening.

What Daisy said.... I gained 22 at one point, and really had to search around to find something that worked for me. Don't let your feelings get in the way of your success... you can do it! A few of us used the 5:2, and I still use it to keep on track 1-2 days a week. Find info in the Vets forum if interested. Best of luck.

I have to say, I read this thread back when I was still pre-op and it scared the crap out of me and nearly convinced me not to go through with the surgery. Thank God I did. Now 13 months post op I haven't regretted it. Now that I'm pretty much at goal weight, the struggle is real, for sure. I actually just wrote a blog post on this topic yesterday and how the real work really starts when the first year or so is over and you realize that you STILL have to work at it and your weight loss problems didn't solve themselves. But with that being said, while I bounce around between the same 3 or 4 pounds up and down now depending on water weight, time of month, etc. I've been maintaining with careful watch of what I am eating, sticking to the basics as far as protein, water, and carbs, and exercising.

So if there are any pre-op peeps reading this and getting scared crapless after reading through it like I was, don't get discouraged! Does the sleeve help you lose a lot of weight quickly, YES! Does it keep it off in the long run? NO. But you do, your choices, and your strategy of using your "tool" - the sleeve - long-term and your daily lifestyle changes.

Just my two-cents.

Edited October 17, 201411 yr by livvsmum

Amen to that, livvsmum. U said it perfectly. But getting used to the vigilance is a PITA.

You look beautiful, My long time friend! I know exactly what you mean. I gained back up to about 175, lost down to 140 ( ten pounds below original goal) last year and now am at 158 and trying to get back and hold at 145-150. I do have great restriction still and was just thinking, "HEY, I'm 4 1/2 years out and STILL at a size 8 too!!!! I'm tall and at 5'8" sometimes in a dress I have to go up a couple of sizes for sleeve/shoulder length and take in the hips!! ????. Good to see you,Sleevie !!!!

livvsmum I have a couple of questions for you... We are the same height and almost same starting weight, I was sleeved last Tuesday. What would you say best worked for you when you first started this journey? I find myself hungry on the liquid part of this journey and Im scared I will go back to bad habbits. Did you work out if so how much and time wise? What did you eat afterwards and what has made this journey continue at your goal weigh, Thank you for all your encouraging words. I have been reading blogs that this seems to not work for some prople and they gain it back and that is my worst nightmare.