http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/01/19/377731653/when-bariatric-surgerys-benefits-wane-this-procedure-can-help?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150119

RNY never stops working, same with the sleeve. People just stop following plan. Write all the article you want, but they will all boil down to that.

On 6/14/2017 at 5:10 PM, Lindairene said:

amen girl,17yrsOut,They will not let me blog in on Veterans,Why I don't know my guess I will tell it like it is you don't have surgery and presto your skinny for life,You loose weight and you think Wow that was easy then you start feeling oh I can eat some of this and that and pie,Ice cream,Pizza,Steak,All the yummy food and wow not bad for a while maybe a year maybe two them all of a sudden wow 10 lbs I can get that off then 50# then wow your out of control,Sure you still got your little pouch but you can still enjoy all those yummy foods and and weight comes on and bam,Your gaining weight and not so easy to take off.Well that's probably why they won't let me on the vet blog. Cause I tell the truth and believe me,It's not a magical surgery,Believe me! Seventeen years and still learning and working at it!!

Try asking the admin about access to the veterans forum....Might be due to your stats..Say's pre op and a member for a short time...

The amount of revisions due to stretching on this forum seem to be a rare occurrence.

US national library of medicine link

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4485844/

Conclusion

Long-term weight loss in patients following bariatric surgery requires regular and supportive management by qualified health professionals. Based on the literature reviewed, our principal recommendations to optimize long-term weight loss include:

• ensuring that the patient understands how the procedure works;
• offering pre- and postoperative education sessions;
• ensuring the patient utilizes self-monitoring strategies;
• tailoring nutritional supplements;
• restraining liquid calories, pureed foods, grazing, and eating out of home;
• engaging in an average of 60 minutes of physical activity per day; and
• conducting lifelong annual medical, psychological, and dietary assessments.

Stomach stretching?

there is a paucity of long-term clinical evidence to describe the rates of occurrence.

6 hours ago, BigViffer said:

RNY never stops working, same with the sleeve. People just stop following plan. Write all the article you want, but they will all boil down to that.

Yep! This is pretty much dead on. The purpose of RNY is so that you never go back to your old ways of living. I never want to live to eat again. The misery of diabetes cannot be over-emphasized! I needed to experience this first hand to get my ass in gear.

On 2. Dezember 2015 at 12:02 AM, phatfatgirl said:

Some ppl realize, once you have your surgery and getting to goal and staying there. .. ppl live. Not just on sugar free, fat free and lite stuff only. Ppl become less rigid. It's really hard to explain if you haven't been there yet. But you can become lax to a point.

This.

You basically start to eat like "normal people". For some that's ok when it comes to maintaining. Others don't maintain on it. No idea why that is. Maybe the ones who gain don't eat like "normal people" after all but like they ate before surgery.

"People live". Well, hopefully they really do. I personally think identifying as "a WLS patient" for the rest of my life is not something to strive for.

It's interesting that some people seem to be eager to identify themselves with their medical conditions: "diabetic", "sleever", "food addict" etc. - gives me a weird kind of feeling somehow.

On 5. Juni 2017 at 6:09 PM, Michelle920 said:

I had been on every diet under the sun, and I always put the weight back on because I went back to my old bad habits. I'm 2 years out and have regained 10lbs since my one year follow up because, well, I went back to some bad habits. I got lazy. I didn't think it would happen; in fact I swore it wouldn't before I had my surgery. I also swore it wouldn't every time I dieted too.

Sounds familiar, that "this time it will be different", huh?

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WLS doesn't prevent people miraculously from "falling off the strict diet and exercise program wagon". Might be time to consider what wagon really to hop on.