I had RNY 4 years ago. The past few months it seems I’m easily gaining weight. My weight is still healthy. I’m 135 and 5’1. What can I do to stop the gain before it happens??’

It’s a daily battle isn’t it. Sigh!

I’d go back to tracking & logging what you’re eating. It’s so easy to let things slip into our diet or to increase portion size. We become less vigilant. A treat becomes a regular thing…. There may be things you’ve been eating you haven’t considered for their calorie, carbs, sugar or fat content.

Plus the last 12/18months hasn’t been easy from the perspective of our emotional health either which brings it own set of challenges.

I do random checks of my diet, & I think I always will, to try to keep on top of calorie & portion creep. I’m also the person peering myopically at the nutrition panels (why is the font always so tiny) of products at the supermarket.

Good luck.

I'm "takes a photo of the label with his phone and pinches waaaaaaay out" years old... join the club ?

I agree with everything Arabesque said. Get on top of this before it gets out of control. Start tracking your food again if you've stopped doing that. I still track mine at over six years out because I know from my past history that once I stop monitoring myself fairly regularly, things can spin out of control quickly. It's much easier to lose five or ten or even twenty pounds than 50. And by the way - regaining is unfortunately VERY common. We stop paying as close attention - we're not as vigilante as we were the first year out of surgery - diet fatigue sets in - bad habits start to creep back in. A 10% regain (10-20 lbs) from our lowest weight is extremely common. I knew that going in and factored it in to my goal. My struggle now (and probably for the rest of my life) is keeping it from going higher than that.

16 hours ago, Je$$ica36 said:

I had RNY 4 years ago. The past few months it seems I’m easily gaining weight. My weight is still healthy. I’m 135 and 5’1. What can I do to stop the gain before it happens??’

Are you still tracking calories, protein and exercise?

No. But obviously I need to be.