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I'm 5 years and gained 60lbs over the past year. Struggling to lose and get to goal

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I'm 5 years and gained 60lbs over the past year. Struggling to lose and get to goal

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Thanks for sharing this info. May I ask, what attributed to your weight gain? Had you started back eating what made you heavy to begin with? I'm preop and just observing real life stories concerning how to keep the weight off? I know it's a struggle...but, how can we maintain the weight loss?

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Thanks. What was your total loss before gaining?

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145lbs goal was to lose 200lbs

How did you do?

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I'm 5 years and gained 60lbs over the past year. Struggling to lose and get to goal

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Thanks for sharing this info. May I ask, what attributed to your weight gain? Had you started back eating what made you heavy to begin with? I'm preop and just observing real life stories concerning how to keep the weight off? I know it's a struggle...but, how can we maintain the weight loss?

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My exercise decreased and I stopped lifting weights. Carbs started to slip back into my diet. I can eat more and feel hunger or more like hangry.

The mind state of not screwing up diminished.

I got lazy and then it was 10lbs, 20lbs. I did the pouch reset. I went back to the basics. I went back to the gym but hurt my knee. Seems like the Protein shakes make me gain.

In November I joined Weight Watchers but so far only losing and gaining the same 5 lbs.

My metabolism has changed. It's like I have developed a resistance to what worked previously.

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6 years postop. Lost 160+ pounds and still maintaining at goal. Doing fabulous! Sleeve still a great tool for Portion Control, but not as good as the psychological tools I got from my therapist and support group.

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I know it's a struggle...but, how can we maintain the weight loss?

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Basically whatever you had to do to lose the weight is what you have to do forever in order to maintain. And while that is easy to do for a year or so, life still has its unpleasantries. Surgery does nothing more than make your stomach smaller.....It doesn't "fix" anything else. For many patients, they eventually default back to their old habits of coping. Its the long term psychological changes that help you to continue to Stay on track and maintain the weight loss. Uncovering why you got fat in the first place and modifying those behaviors is what you ultimately need to do. For me, 3 years of therapy and 5+ years support group was key.

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I think you will probably struggle to find too many people on here who are more than 5 years post op. Mainly because once you hit goal weight and start maintaining, you kind of get back into the life and are not really on the boards as much for support, if that makes sense! I definitely find myself on here less, so I try to make a point to check in every couple of weeks or so. Good luck to you!

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