08-09-2004, 01:19 PM
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15 years post op..... my sister in law
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Originally Posted by Peckkale
 I attended a support group meeting last Tuesday in Palm Springs and came away with a number of questions.
There were two post-op patients that spurred these question.
The first lady had had WLS nine years ago and was back for another WLS attempt. Over the nine years she had gained back all the weight.
The second lady was 2+ years post-op and is gaining back the weight.
These two woman set me to thinking and I now have a number of questions haunting me.
This surgery is said to change you ability to eat sugary and fatty foods.
1 - Is this true or is it true only for a few months following surgery? Does the effects of the surgery "wear off" over time?
2 - At what point does one's appetite return to a pre-op conditions and you end up back where you started from...Fighting your food cravings and weight? |
Renee,
I can't answer any of your questions myself, since I'm just 3 weeks and 6 days out, BUT, my sister in law had one of the other stomach stapling surgeries 15 years ago. She lost about 200 pounds and in the last 4 1/2 years since I've known her, she's probably gained back at LEAST 50 pounds, but, I also see what she eats when she's out or here at our home. She eats a LOT more than what I know WE can or are supposed to eat, and she eats M&M's everyday!!! Handfuls!!!! She then complains to me that she "needs to get busy and get the rest of this weight off"..... I offered her the piece that Suzanne submitted to the old thinnertimes group called something like "Pouch rules for dummies", she refused it, that was months ago, while I was still in the waiting process. She still eats the chocolate, she says she NEEDS it, well, she "needed" the chocolate enough to put 50+  pounds back after going through this long process of receiving a tool to keep that weight off of her!!!! I'm only sharing this with you to show that if we DON'T do what we're supposed to with this TOOL that we've been blessed to have, we CAN put weight back, not everyone is free of dumping from sugar, my sister in law is one, she has no dumping from all that candy, amongst other things she ate a whole chicken sandwich with gobs of mayonnaise on it, in front of me when I was 10 days out..... I sat there and sipped my cream soup and water, and I knew by watching her, that if I had anything to say about it, I'd do my very level best to never let myself get that point of not being aware, and of never forgetting this past year that I had to be ready for this surgery, and KNOW that this is a life changing experience and I never want to go back to the old way of eating....
I'm down 36 pounds in 27 days, I've had three mini-plateaus in the past week and a half, three days at one weight, lose a pound, then three more days at the same, down one pound, I've stayed the same for 5 days now, but, I feel better today after Christina, Karen and Tracie talked me through this frustrating time, I know if I just keep doing what I'm doing, it'll start melting away again.
I'd do it all over again, just knowing what is ahead of me, thinner days and healthier years!!!!! 
I wish you the very best Renee, in your decision making.....
Good luck!!!!
God speed~ |
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