Hi Everyone,

I'm a male sleever that has relapsed back into bad habits. I did my surgery back in May 2012. I initially had my starting weight at 122 kg (268 lbs). I successfully dropped the weight down to 75 kg (165 lbs) during the first 18 months. For my first two years, I always logged my meals on MyFitnessPal and worked out 4-5x a week. Was averting 1300-1600 calories daily for maintenance.

Unfortunately, has a series of personal life events that completely overwhelmed me in 2014. Lots of depression and stress in my life, so all the bad habits crept back in. I got up to 100 kg (220 lbs) last month and I was horrified!

Decided to do something happen and regain the willpower to restart my former positivity life. It's amazing what a negative mindset can do wreck havoc! Anyways, after researching these forums for fellow regainers, I decided to follow the pouch reset diet ( http://www.obesitycoverage.com/the-pouch-reset-losing-weight-after-weight-regain/) to jump start my path to getting back to losing weight.

It's seriously more challenging than the 5 day pouch reset since it's 10 days! I'm currently at the end of Day 5. Wow! Being on a liquid diet is really tough! It was so much easier to drink liquids immediately post-surgery than today! I'm shrinking the 10 days to 8 days (shorting the last two stages).

For Days 1-3, I hovered around a calorie intake between 500-700 calories, Protein around 70g, and carbs almost nonexistent (<25 grams).

Days 4-5, I got up to 1000 calories daily, 70 grams, and tried to keep carbs under 85 grams.

Key aspects that helped me through the 5 days:

- try to exercise if you can. I did daily cardio of 150-200 calories burn.

- drink lots and lots of Water.

- log everything on an app.

- I still get hungry between meals (and I have to remind myself that this is head hunger and not real hunger).

- BE POSITIVE AND HAVE THE RIGHT MINDSET FOR CHANGE!

I'm weighed myself and I'm down 2.5 kgs (5.5 lbs). I assume that some of this is water loss. I'm seriously looking forward to tomorrow when I can start having soft protein (Hooray!).

Hope this post helps some of the regainers out there. It does happen, but we need to get back on track!

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Good for you! Sorry you hit such a rough patch but happy you're on the mend, you can do it keep up the good work

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Brilliant start well done. It sure is a mind game.

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Really respect you for taking control back !

This really is more a mental game than a physical one. Thank you for your post, and I wish you all the best as you move forward.

hang in there! my pouch reset was hard as heck. i failed it multiple times before actually getting it right!

I regained 8 pounds lately so went back to the basics cause I'm only going backwards kicking and screaming!! I never did drink a lot of Water after my surgery 2 1/2 years ago but I am now. Problem is, I had a large hiatal hernia which they repaired at the same time. I can drink anything, but water hurts and leaves me with heartburn!! Anyone else have this problem?

I'm in a similar boat. Sleeved in October of 2011 and have gained about 40#, with about 30 of those in the last 18 months due to some GI issues that seem to be close to being resolved. I've really hit "bottom" and am ready to restart. I've tried the 1000 calories that my nutritionist recommended, working out 3 times a week (burning 400-500 calories af at time and even Paleo and nothing has worked. The scale is going the other direction! A friend of mine is doing a program called Omnitrition and has had great success with it. Has anyone ever heard of it or used it?

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