I am feeling pretty disappointed. Since having my gastric bypass eight weeks ago, I have lost 27.5 pounds. I am plenty happy with that. It's just that nothing, and I mean nothing, bothers my stomach. I can eat anything I want with absolutely no repercussions whatsoever. I actually chose the bypass because of the side affects it usually brings. I am worried that it will have a bearing on my future weight loss. Is there anyone else out there who is in the same predicament? How did you do long term? I am currently eating 900-1000 calories a day. I know that is a lot of calories for most people, but I am losing around 2 pounds a week, which is what my goal is. Does anyone have experience with this?

I have a feeling this may be my experience. Although I am very early into the recovery process (I will have had my surgery 3 weeks ago this Monday), I have feelings of hunger. Someone suggested it may be because I am not hydrated, and I could not dispute that because I have always had issues staying hydrated. However, this is one of my concerns. I changed much of my diet prior to this surgery when I had my band placed in 2012, and due to my diabetes, and it is because of my diabetes my doc and I decided to move forward to the conversion surgery. *sigh*...time will tell. I definitely don't want issues (I had dumping with one of my Protein shakes and it was not fun.

Sick close to the plan, I hear if they have to go back in, it's awful. I average 7 - 800 calories a day make sure you get in your protein

I spoke to soon. food is NOT my friend right now. Or I should say the Proteins I eat are not my friend. This is going to be an INTERESTING journey.

Hello BostonStrong617,

What did you eat that has upset your stomach so???

Prada.

I am one year post op and I can tolerate most everything however I can eat all of the bad stuff that has all the bad calories in it. It is very tuff to stick to the plan when you can eat fast food and really pretty much anything you want. I have been at a stand still in weight loss since January and this scares me to death. I don't want to stretch my pouch out but I really am struggling with everything. What are some things you all do to keep the cravings down. and what do you do when you have them. I didn't get fat by having self control and now I still don't have any. Any help would be great.

I wish I hadn't read this. I'm planning GBS too, for many of the same reasons. But I think that I would be too scared to even TRY something that could make me sick....

You do get scared but you have to keep in mind you are strong that is what I keep telling myself lol

I also can eat pretty much anything I want. I have to consciously remind to ask myself, "are you full?" It's something you have to pay close attention to. You have the full feeling, you're just not tuning into it

I guess I don't understand. I can eat anything I want, but I can't eat much of it and sometimes, very little as in three bites. It doesn't seem like a 2 pound a week loss comes from eating in excess?

I have the same concerns regarding portions and calories. I imagine I could tolerate anything, but I have not tried. Any new food that I have been allowed to introduce by my drs. guidelines I have tolerated just fine. I am suspicious that I could eat anything I want. However, so far (thanks be to Jesus!), I have had the willpower to not test it.

I am eating anywhere from 800-1000 calories a day; but like @@esskay77 , I am not concentrating on calories - I am concentrating on protein. I even brought it up at support group meeting a couple weeks ago and was told to stay focused on the protein not calories. I will be 8 weeks out this Friday, so we must have had our surgeries around the same time.

If you would like, we could "friend" each other on MyFitnessPal and you can see my food journal. I have found that it is a good way to kind of benchmark with others and get fresh ideas for snacks and meals. I have input several of my recipes for my breakfast quiche muffins, meatloaf in muffin tin, chocolate PB protein balls, etc. and so I know the nutritional value per serving which makes it easy to track. I love it. My username is rragon.

Good luck!

Hi Rebecca Ragon I would like to be friends in my pal to see your receipe and help each other out in that area my username is Karenpizano2007@yahoo.com