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kida    0

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Hi I had gastric bypass in April 2008 and four years later I have gained 20 pounds back. I wanted tro know if anyone else has experienced this and if so how do you handle it

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TinyMamiOf3kids    1,280

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Congratulations on your surgery. I had mine may 30, 2012. I can't eat much. I was told over time your stomach grows or something like that. Have you change the way you eat compare to the first time after surgery when you began to eat normal food? Are you cheating fast food restaurant? Drinking diet or regular soda? Not exercising? I'm not an expert but I was told we get comfortable in our body & start doing the no no stuff & end up gaining weight.

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Lebim    381

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Almost everyone I know that has had the surgery loses a lot (if not too much) and ends up gaining like 20lbs back

- Kaylee Ann ~ Surgiversary: 6/11/12

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Almost everyone I know that has had the surgery loses a lot (if not too much) and ends up gaining like 20lbs back

- Kaylee Ann ~ Surgiversary: 6/11/12

I agree. I don't think 20 pounds is a whole lot. Just keep an eye on things so you don't keep gaining.

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TinyMamiOf3kids    1,280

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Hi I had gastric bypass in April 2008 and four years later I have gained 20 pounds back. I wanted tro know if anyone else has experienced this and if so how do you handle it

What's the outcome? Did you see the dietician to figure the weigh gain?

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Thanks everyone for all of your responses I no longer have a dietician I have moved away since I had my surgey. That is why I have been looking for some hel[p with answers. I do think I need to excercise more but I dont have energy because I'm severly anemic. And on top of that I am always hungry. I take the 20lb weight gain serious I have a long life ahead of me and I need to be healty for my family

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Thanks everyone for all of your responses I no longer have a dietician I have moved away since I had my surgey. That is why I have been looking for some hel[p with answers. I do think I need to excercise more but I dont have energy because I'm severly anemic. And on top of that I am always hungry. I take the 20lb weight gain serious I have a long life ahead of me and I need to be healty for my family

I hope you can find another dietician soon. I just got one. Are you taking Iron pills?

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Thanks everyone for all of your responses I no longer have a dietician I have moved away since I had my surgey. That is why I have been looking for some hel[p with answers. I do think I need to excercise more but I dont have energy because I'm severly anemic. And on top of that I am always hungry. I take the 20lb weight gain serious I have a long life ahead of me and I need to be healty for my family

Anemic due to surgery?

- Kaylee Ann ~ Surgiversary: 6/11/12

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Hi I had gastric bypass in April 2008 and four years later I have gained 20 pounds back. I wanted tro know if anyone else has experienced this and if so how do you handle it

Hi Kida

I had RNY in July 08 and after about a year and a half I stopped losing... Which was fine because everyone kept telling me I was getting too skinny. But I too have gained back some weight which is around 30lbs. I know it's because I eat a whole lot more and I stopped working out. I know I need to get back on track so thats why I'm so glad I found this forum. Im also am severely anemic. I have to get Iron intravenously every two weeks. Iron pills and supplements don't give me what I need. But I think the key to getting back is to start some kinda of work out regime and get back into planning meals.

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Hi Kida

I had RNY in July 08 and after about a year and a half I stopped losing... Which was fine because everyone kept telling me I was getting too skinny. But I too have gained back some weight which is around 30lbs. I know it's because I eat a whole lot more and I stopped working out. I know I need to get back on track so thats why I'm so glad I found this forum. Im also am severely anemic. I have to get Iron intravenously every two weeks. Iron pills and supplements don't give me what I need. But I think the key to getting back is to start some kinda of work out regime and get back into planning meals.

Is this level of anemia normal?

- Kaylee Ann ~ Surgiversary: 6/11/12

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Is this level of anemia normal?

- Kaylee Ann ~ Surgiversary: 6/11/12

I am 8 years post op and have been anemic for 7 of them. I have met many that are not, so I guess it is individual.

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working4shoes    55

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I am also anemic and Vitamin D deficient. First RNY 2004. Revision RNY 6/28/2012

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Hi Kida

I had RNY in July 08 and after about a year and a half I stopped losing... Which was fine because everyone kept telling me I was getting too skinny. But I too have gained back some weight which is around 30lbs. I know it's because I eat a whole lot more and I stopped working out. I know I need to get back on track so thats why I'm so glad I found this forum. Im also am severely anemic. I have to get Iron intravenously every two weeks. Iron pills and supplements don't give me what I need. But I think the key to getting back is to start some kinda of work out regime and get back into planning meals.

I definitely agree . I have also found something online called the 5 day pouch test that I'm gonna try. Have u ever heard about it

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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