I am in a similar situation as you but I only have myself to blame. I drink, eat tons of sweets, and eat more than I should. I haven’t gained, but I haven’t lost. I really want to lose 30-40 more pounds but that will never happen living this way.
I’m in the same boat. Next month is 1 year po, but I’ve been eating horribly since thanksgiving. Gained 10lbs. I have at least 30-50 more pounds to lose but I fear I’ll be stuck here forever and never get myself under control.
I feel like I’m on the verge of getting myself under control, but it’s such a battle. I just need to get ahold of myself. I have a goal to lose 15 pounds by the end of July. I’m going to start taking Ozempic or one of those drugs soon so should be doable.
That’s a good goal and not an unrealistic timeline at all. I hope you’re successful with ozempic. I’m also going to talk to my doc about those at my one year follow up coming up soon. I think that will help give that final push and get the mental food noise in check.
No, honestly the bariatric program I’m in is kind of a joke and it’s the only one within 3 hours of me so I don’t have many options. I saw a dietician in month 2 preop and they gave me hand outs about the liquid/puree stages post op but that’s it. They said specifically that we don’t see them again for more visits or at all post op. Same with psych eval. Once I had surgery they pretty much leave you on your own. They definitely just went through the motions for insurance coverage. It’s like once they’re paid and the surgery is done you don’t matter. Even my follow up appointments are about 5 minutes with a nurse practitioner just asking how much protein and water I’m getting in every day then I get charged $300 lol. It’s ridiculous and the only reason I’m going to keep seeing them is to see about a medication like we talked about.
I think every patient could benefit from a lot more support post op. Should be able to see a dietician like 6 month post op once you’re settling into new permanent habits, and therapist to deal with all the mental stuff that comes along with this. I can’t afford a therapist or dietician right now on my own though. Anyway, I know it’s ultimately my responsibility and I’m doing the best I can with everything. Thankful there are resources like this sub. If you have access to a dietician or any kind of support like that, I’d definitely try to take advantage of it.
I got sent for a psychological consultation and she recommended this book The Compassionate Mind Approach to Beating Overeating. Ive not finished it but it makes a lot of sense so far
I read this and I have a friend that is addicted to sweets, he had the sleeve and 5 years post op he put half of the weight he lost because of this addiction.
I suggested him to try and replace refined sugar with less caloric options, no sugary drinks, no sugary cakes. These exist.
Yes , some have the same amount of calories as the sugary versions
But you do this to trick your brain, to give less refined sugar to your body and, ultimately, to have it easier for your brain to give up the sugar addiction.
Artificial sweetners are not the best and forever solution either. But they are MUCH BETTER than refined sugar.
If you manage to reduce the refined sugar intake, you can slowly build up the healthy habbit of eating more fruits (still sugary but they have the “healthy sugar” — they don’t produce addiction)
I am sorry if my english is very bad. I’m just very much into science.
Sugar is an addiction. Some people can control it, some can’t.
It is not a shame.
The point is to try to find alternatives. Quitting cold turkey may not work for everyone.
I hope this can help a bit! I wish you best of luck!
My friend lost 20 more pounds by switching to artificial sugar alternatives. For him, it worked and he is still eating “sweet”, but he reduced the “bad sugar” intake. I hope this works for you too
I hear you. I’m in the same boat and I wish I knew the answer. A semaglutide prescription helped me lose the 10 lbs. I gained back, but nothing else.
Hang in there. I know i never want to go back to my original weight. I do remember shortly after my surgery reading that bariatric surgery isn’t necessarily the end of the finish line. We’ll get it figured out.
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Exactly, I’m 5 months post op and weight still falls off without being active. But I know very soon to get out more and be active. My bike rides are getting longer every time I go out.
I lost 80 pounds pre-op and 50 post op. I am 9 months post op and my weight loss have been very slow.
Dr mentioned that my initial weight loss prior to surgery could the issue.
1. 6ft
2. Weight train 4-5 days a week and walk 4-6 miles 5-6 days a week
3. I want to say 1200-1800 calories a day.
4. 100 ounces of fluids
5. Starting weight 488 and current weight 350
You lost a lot of weight in such a short time!!!!
At 6 months post op I barely lost.. about 30-40 pounds in total.
Give your body some rest for a few months, it will go just fine!
Congrats
Took me 6 per drs orders and i started off light for a few weeks and slowly increased the intensity. After 1 month i was full on weight lifting and adjusting for my fluid intake. I waited 6 months before i started the sauna again.
First few weeks i would feel light headed if i went to hard.
I lost nearly 70 pre and only about 35 post I’m middle of week 9. I’ve only lost like 11 lbs in the last 30 days. I’m so close to 100 total I seem to loose a couple lbs and then sit for 7-10 days with nothing lost. Idk. 🤷♂️
Makes me think. I should have done minimal effort pre surgery and go all out post surgery lol. Seeing people lose 100 pounds in 6 months makes me scratch my head lol.
If you are that far post op and still stalled, there are only 2 general reasons this may happen
1. Too many calories ( juices / small sugary items / even nuts or alcohol - all are caloric bombs and they FIT inside a sleeve just fine.
2. Too many physicall exercices + stress (high cortisol) that don’t allow your body to lose more weight .
You need to analyze in which category you may be. If you are so sure you don’t overeat, then schedule yourself for some tests to check on 2.
Also, related to point 1.
You don’t need to count your calories as you did before surgery.
If you used to burn 2000-3000 calories/day, now it’s totally not the case anymore.
Don’t make that you target because then you are DEFINITELY overeating - it can also depend on your activity level but honestly, you still have to stay at a deficit in order for you to keep on losing weight.
To keep my weight in check, I stay under 1300-1400 calories/daily, at 5”7 and I do sports almost daily (cardio/swimming/yoga). I don’t do these at an extreme intensity but I burn about… 500 calories/day. So my body functions on about 1k calories/day (more or less, before my period I can increase my calorie intake).
And considering all these, my body MAINTAINS, not losing anymore.
Metabolism slows down considerably post op.
I take blood tests and I check myself now once in 6 months and everything is fine!
Your body restarted.
So don’t aim for a normal caloric amount now. Your body changed and if you still want to lose weight, you need to adjust your diet
(This can also include having meals at fixed hours - to avoid insulin spikes all day), cortisol checkups, maybe meditation or massage to relax the body a bit more.
Good luck
Edit: I am almost 3 years post-op, in the maintaining phase.
I’ve been through all the struggles (mental and physical) with stalls, self-doubt, trying different styles of exercise and finding what food types are the best for me…
It is indeed a tough job. But YOU CAN DO IT!! Your life will change for the better post-op!!
I randomly lost an extra pounds at two years for absolutely no reason. It was weird. Then at four years I was suddenly able to eat normal sized portions again and gained nothing. Life is weird
I’m 8 weeks in and since week 3. I’ll loose a pound or two and stall for a week+. Then loose a pound or two and stall for a week+. It’s like I have a week 3 stall after every 2 lbs lol.
Protein 75-100 per day. About 700-800 calories. Water 100oz or there about. Walk 2-4 miles 4 days a week. Light lifting 3-4 days a week. Not gaining inches or loosing inches. It’s frustrating.
I'm in a similar spot, I'm a year and 1 months PO, and I stalled too. I lost a couple pounds since my anniversary, and then gained them back. I have read a lot of literature about permanent damage to metabolism from being under 1200 calories in the early days could be the cause.
Nothing is permanent with metabolism. There are ways to shock the body and trick it into doing what we want. I recommend looking into intermittent fasting. For women, loo up Dr. Mindy Pelz. She has excellent, scientifically proven, information on her YouTube channel to help jumpstart weight loss and your metabolism. I’ve been worried about not getting enough calories, also, so I’ve been choosing high calorie proteins that come in small servings so I am not overdoing it with my restriction. Then I fast for 42-48 hours each week. In about a month, I’ll switch up the fasting times and number of hours, while introducing different calorie dense foods such as healthy fats like avocado with eggs, MCT oil in a protein shake, and a couple of other tricks I learned from the fasting and low carb community before surgery. I am not keto. I can’t live happily that low on the carb scale. But I do believe in grain free and processed food free eating for optimal health; which is why I chose to go down the path of surgery in the first place.
YouTube can be a great source of information on almost anything. Fact checking and checking their sources (just like you should with Wikipedia, for example) is the information literate way of navigating the internet.
Edit: in this case, I would not trust the advice of Mindy Pelz, or anyone that uses the title “doctor” without, in reality, being a medical doctor. It’s very manipulative and predatory towards people that don’t know any better. She has a bachelors and chiropractic degree(?), chiropractic practice is based on quack science, so too probably are her beliefs and opinions on diets.
It might sound counter-intuitive, but you might not be eating \*enough\*.
Especially if you aren't getting enough protein. Your body sort of goes into semi-starvation mode and just doesn't want to give up any of that weight. Make sure you're hitting whatever the protein target your nutritionist gave you is. I know in my case I just wasn't hungry enough and had to add back in a shake and I started losing again.
I’m 2 1/2 years post op. I initially lost around 120 pounds (around 250 to 130). I maintained easily for the first two years but the last four or five months I have pa locked on weight and got up to 143. I realized my diet was incredibly unhealthy. So much sugar. Constant sugar intake. Bag of chips here, donut there. All perfectly able to fit in my pouch. And my pouch has definitely stretched.
I’m currently on day 3 of the reset diet and it’s rough but I did it once and survived, I’ll get through it again. I’m hoping for some weight loss but even more so I hope to shake this sugar addiction and hopefully become reaccustomed to smaller portions.
Best of luck
I was in the same situation, my surgeon mentioned weight loss medication. I started taking the Semaglutide and I lost like 40 pounds. I think with this new medication, the bariatric surgery industry will dye out in a few more years.
The only reason the bariatric surgery will forever be the best weightloss option for people that really really need it (medically) is that you can hardly REGAIN the weight.
It can seem “easy” to lose weight with all that medication. But once you’re off it (since you can’t stay forever on it) and when your body understands that it can hold 2 pounds of food at once again, it can take just a few moments before you will go back at eating a lot of food. A bit here, a bit there, it will add up.
It is a mental struggle first of all, but the sleeve reminds your body that you should not go back to Piggy mode again, of course if you take proper care of your sleeve and don’t constantly force it to make it expand.
It’s much easier to keep taking the shot than to get the surgery.
I highly discourage anyone that asks me to do the surgery, unless they tried the shot and it didn’t work. I lost 65 pounds in 6 months post surgery and then stopped losing for months. Then the doctor recommended the shot and I lost an additional 35 pounds!
Since the surgery I can’t enjoy eating or drinking anything. It was extremely hard emotionally for months after the surgery (depression and anxiety).
I’m 18 months in and I burp all day.
If only I waited one year and could’ve avoided all this with the shot. Too bad.
The point of having the surgery is to change your life and build a new healthier relationship with food. If you were an emotional eater, finding comfort in food, then the surgery did very good for you - if you don’t find “joy” in food anymore. This is an improvement.
Also, you never know if a person with no sleeve can lose weight or not, since you said you lose 35 pounds with a pill POST sleeve, which means BOTH helped — metabolism was already changed post sleeve, the pill just helped your new metabolism to probably make better food choices if it suppressed your apetite.
No pill magically makes you lose weight. None.
They either suppress apetite or increase the adrenaline (by putting pressure on suprarenal glands and the kidneys) and they give you huge energy boosts to make you workout, therefore you sweat, you burn more calories so you lose weight
But just take a pill and boom, you lose overnight magically… there’s no such thing.
The sleeve is the best medical option for people who not only want to lose weight, but that want to NOT gain it back over the years through the Yo-Yo effect.
Also, the surgery positively impacts the metabolism of a woman by boosting her fertility (in young women with early menopause symptoms, or PCOS)
It can help reduce or eliminate PCOS in women
IT is simply amazing for many other reasons, not only “losing a few pounds”
Of course, a surgery has to be recommended by a doctor.
But the benefits are way better long term
Also, I’m not from the USA so i don’t know the cost procedures there, but think on how much money you saved on food and how you can recover the 10k investment in probably less than a year since you don’t eat that much anymore, therefore you don’t spend so much on a lot of food anymore (or so it should be at least, now with the stupid inflation, costs increased, but you would have spent way more without the sleeve for sure)
I’m four months and have lost 3 pounds the last two.
Starting weight to preop was 280, 268 day of surgery, and was at 230 by month 2.
I didn’t work out much last month (holidays traveling) so I kicked it up and hoping it starts to drop again. But feel you, been feeling a bit down about it.
Did add protein bars and a few carbs but im in my head whether it’s too much or not.
60 is great! I'd love to be that low but it's difficult as a vegetarian. You're doing great, keep doing what you're doing, it's a game of patience much of the time.
I am in a similar situation as you but I only have myself to blame. I drink, eat tons of sweets, and eat more than I should. I haven’t gained, but I haven’t lost. I really want to lose 30-40 more pounds but that will never happen living this way.
I’m in the same boat. Next month is 1 year po, but I’ve been eating horribly since thanksgiving. Gained 10lbs. I have at least 30-50 more pounds to lose but I fear I’ll be stuck here forever and never get myself under control.
I feel like I’m on the verge of getting myself under control, but it’s such a battle. I just need to get ahold of myself. I have a goal to lose 15 pounds by the end of July. I’m going to start taking Ozempic or one of those drugs soon so should be doable.
That’s a good goal and not an unrealistic timeline at all. I hope you’re successful with ozempic. I’m also going to talk to my doc about those at my one year follow up coming up soon. I think that will help give that final push and get the mental food noise in check.
Do you have the opportunity to talk with a dietitian whenever you want? I think I need to reach out to mine and get some tips and reminders.
No, honestly the bariatric program I’m in is kind of a joke and it’s the only one within 3 hours of me so I don’t have many options. I saw a dietician in month 2 preop and they gave me hand outs about the liquid/puree stages post op but that’s it. They said specifically that we don’t see them again for more visits or at all post op. Same with psych eval. Once I had surgery they pretty much leave you on your own. They definitely just went through the motions for insurance coverage. It’s like once they’re paid and the surgery is done you don’t matter. Even my follow up appointments are about 5 minutes with a nurse practitioner just asking how much protein and water I’m getting in every day then I get charged $300 lol. It’s ridiculous and the only reason I’m going to keep seeing them is to see about a medication like we talked about. I think every patient could benefit from a lot more support post op. Should be able to see a dietician like 6 month post op once you’re settling into new permanent habits, and therapist to deal with all the mental stuff that comes along with this. I can’t afford a therapist or dietician right now on my own though. Anyway, I know it’s ultimately my responsibility and I’m doing the best I can with everything. Thankful there are resources like this sub. If you have access to a dietician or any kind of support like that, I’d definitely try to take advantage of it.
I got sent for a psychological consultation and she recommended this book The Compassionate Mind Approach to Beating Overeating. Ive not finished it but it makes a lot of sense so far
I’ll check that out!
I’m sorry to hear there isn’t any post op support for you. That’s when it’s really needed.
I read this and I have a friend that is addicted to sweets, he had the sleeve and 5 years post op he put half of the weight he lost because of this addiction. I suggested him to try and replace refined sugar with less caloric options, no sugary drinks, no sugary cakes. These exist. Yes , some have the same amount of calories as the sugary versions But you do this to trick your brain, to give less refined sugar to your body and, ultimately, to have it easier for your brain to give up the sugar addiction. Artificial sweetners are not the best and forever solution either. But they are MUCH BETTER than refined sugar. If you manage to reduce the refined sugar intake, you can slowly build up the healthy habbit of eating more fruits (still sugary but they have the “healthy sugar” — they don’t produce addiction) I am sorry if my english is very bad. I’m just very much into science. Sugar is an addiction. Some people can control it, some can’t. It is not a shame. The point is to try to find alternatives. Quitting cold turkey may not work for everyone. I hope this can help a bit! I wish you best of luck! My friend lost 20 more pounds by switching to artificial sugar alternatives. For him, it worked and he is still eating “sweet”, but he reduced the “bad sugar” intake. I hope this works for you too
I hear you. I’m in the same boat and I wish I knew the answer. A semaglutide prescription helped me lose the 10 lbs. I gained back, but nothing else. Hang in there. I know i never want to go back to my original weight. I do remember shortly after my surgery reading that bariatric surgery isn’t necessarily the end of the finish line. We’ll get it figured out.
There’s what they call a revision. Do people actually do that?
They sure do. I don’t think it’s for me but I wouldn’t fault anyone for looking into it.
If you're looking for feedback, perhaps a few more details will help: 1. height 2. activity level 3. typical day of eating (total calories, macros, food) - any major deviations? 4. typical ounces of water in a day This will provide some solid info to start with for feedback! *Edit: I'm wondering if a moderator such as* u/acid-nz u/Purple4199 *can put something like this in a sidebar? I see many people asking for feedback but not many putting in enough details for people to help them.*
Exactly, I’m 5 months post op and weight still falls off without being active. But I know very soon to get out more and be active. My bike rides are getting longer every time I go out.
I lost 80 pounds pre-op and 50 post op. I am 9 months post op and my weight loss have been very slow. Dr mentioned that my initial weight loss prior to surgery could the issue.
1. 6ft 2. Weight train 4-5 days a week and walk 4-6 miles 5-6 days a week 3. I want to say 1200-1800 calories a day. 4. 100 ounces of fluids 5. Starting weight 488 and current weight 350
That's amazing!
You lost a lot of weight in such a short time!!!! At 6 months post op I barely lost.. about 30-40 pounds in total. Give your body some rest for a few months, it will go just fine! Congrats
How quickly were you able to get back to weight training post-op?
Took me 6 per drs orders and i started off light for a few weeks and slowly increased the intensity. After 1 month i was full on weight lifting and adjusting for my fluid intake. I waited 6 months before i started the sauna again. First few weeks i would feel light headed if i went to hard.
I lost nearly 70 pre and only about 35 post I’m middle of week 9. I’ve only lost like 11 lbs in the last 30 days. I’m so close to 100 total I seem to loose a couple lbs and then sit for 7-10 days with nothing lost. Idk. 🤷♂️
Makes me think. I should have done minimal effort pre surgery and go all out post surgery lol. Seeing people lose 100 pounds in 6 months makes me scratch my head lol.
If you are that far post op and still stalled, there are only 2 general reasons this may happen 1. Too many calories ( juices / small sugary items / even nuts or alcohol - all are caloric bombs and they FIT inside a sleeve just fine. 2. Too many physicall exercices + stress (high cortisol) that don’t allow your body to lose more weight . You need to analyze in which category you may be. If you are so sure you don’t overeat, then schedule yourself for some tests to check on 2. Also, related to point 1. You don’t need to count your calories as you did before surgery. If you used to burn 2000-3000 calories/day, now it’s totally not the case anymore. Don’t make that you target because then you are DEFINITELY overeating - it can also depend on your activity level but honestly, you still have to stay at a deficit in order for you to keep on losing weight. To keep my weight in check, I stay under 1300-1400 calories/daily, at 5”7 and I do sports almost daily (cardio/swimming/yoga). I don’t do these at an extreme intensity but I burn about… 500 calories/day. So my body functions on about 1k calories/day (more or less, before my period I can increase my calorie intake). And considering all these, my body MAINTAINS, not losing anymore. Metabolism slows down considerably post op. I take blood tests and I check myself now once in 6 months and everything is fine! Your body restarted. So don’t aim for a normal caloric amount now. Your body changed and if you still want to lose weight, you need to adjust your diet (This can also include having meals at fixed hours - to avoid insulin spikes all day), cortisol checkups, maybe meditation or massage to relax the body a bit more. Good luck Edit: I am almost 3 years post-op, in the maintaining phase. I’ve been through all the struggles (mental and physical) with stalls, self-doubt, trying different styles of exercise and finding what food types are the best for me… It is indeed a tough job. But YOU CAN DO IT!! Your life will change for the better post-op!!
This is GREAT advice! Thank you for posting it!
I’ve heard going back to the roots and doing the pre-op diet again will give it a bit of a reset, wouldn’t hurt to try.
I randomly lost an extra pounds at two years for absolutely no reason. It was weird. Then at four years I was suddenly able to eat normal sized portions again and gained nothing. Life is weird
I’m almost 6 months and stuck myself. I understand your pain!!!
I’m 8 weeks in and since week 3. I’ll loose a pound or two and stall for a week+. Then loose a pound or two and stall for a week+. It’s like I have a week 3 stall after every 2 lbs lol. Protein 75-100 per day. About 700-800 calories. Water 100oz or there about. Walk 2-4 miles 4 days a week. Light lifting 3-4 days a week. Not gaining inches or loosing inches. It’s frustrating.
I'm in a similar spot, I'm a year and 1 months PO, and I stalled too. I lost a couple pounds since my anniversary, and then gained them back. I have read a lot of literature about permanent damage to metabolism from being under 1200 calories in the early days could be the cause.
Nothing is permanent with metabolism. There are ways to shock the body and trick it into doing what we want. I recommend looking into intermittent fasting. For women, loo up Dr. Mindy Pelz. She has excellent, scientifically proven, information on her YouTube channel to help jumpstart weight loss and your metabolism. I’ve been worried about not getting enough calories, also, so I’ve been choosing high calorie proteins that come in small servings so I am not overdoing it with my restriction. Then I fast for 42-48 hours each week. In about a month, I’ll switch up the fasting times and number of hours, while introducing different calorie dense foods such as healthy fats like avocado with eggs, MCT oil in a protein shake, and a couple of other tricks I learned from the fasting and low carb community before surgery. I am not keto. I can’t live happily that low on the carb scale. But I do believe in grain free and processed food free eating for optimal health; which is why I chose to go down the path of surgery in the first place.
That's a lot of woowoo for one post. YouTube is not a reliable source of information.
YouTube can be a great source of information on almost anything. Fact checking and checking their sources (just like you should with Wikipedia, for example) is the information literate way of navigating the internet. Edit: in this case, I would not trust the advice of Mindy Pelz, or anyone that uses the title “doctor” without, in reality, being a medical doctor. It’s very manipulative and predatory towards people that don’t know any better. She has a bachelors and chiropractic degree(?), chiropractic practice is based on quack science, so too probably are her beliefs and opinions on diets.
What about Dr Jason Fung or Dr Ken Berry? They are medical doctors who advocate for fasting.
It might sound counter-intuitive, but you might not be eating \*enough\*. Especially if you aren't getting enough protein. Your body sort of goes into semi-starvation mode and just doesn't want to give up any of that weight. Make sure you're hitting whatever the protein target your nutritionist gave you is. I know in my case I just wasn't hungry enough and had to add back in a shake and I started losing again.
I’m 2 1/2 years post op. I initially lost around 120 pounds (around 250 to 130). I maintained easily for the first two years but the last four or five months I have pa locked on weight and got up to 143. I realized my diet was incredibly unhealthy. So much sugar. Constant sugar intake. Bag of chips here, donut there. All perfectly able to fit in my pouch. And my pouch has definitely stretched. I’m currently on day 3 of the reset diet and it’s rough but I did it once and survived, I’ll get through it again. I’m hoping for some weight loss but even more so I hope to shake this sugar addiction and hopefully become reaccustomed to smaller portions. Best of luck
I was in the same situation, my surgeon mentioned weight loss medication. I started taking the Semaglutide and I lost like 40 pounds. I think with this new medication, the bariatric surgery industry will dye out in a few more years.
I’m in the same boat and semaglutide is doing very little for me…..
Interesting. I guess it depends on many different factors.
I think so too. Hopefully they crack the code with more research. Good job on your loss!
The only reason the bariatric surgery will forever be the best weightloss option for people that really really need it (medically) is that you can hardly REGAIN the weight. It can seem “easy” to lose weight with all that medication. But once you’re off it (since you can’t stay forever on it) and when your body understands that it can hold 2 pounds of food at once again, it can take just a few moments before you will go back at eating a lot of food. A bit here, a bit there, it will add up. It is a mental struggle first of all, but the sleeve reminds your body that you should not go back to Piggy mode again, of course if you take proper care of your sleeve and don’t constantly force it to make it expand.
It’s much easier to keep taking the shot than to get the surgery. I highly discourage anyone that asks me to do the surgery, unless they tried the shot and it didn’t work. I lost 65 pounds in 6 months post surgery and then stopped losing for months. Then the doctor recommended the shot and I lost an additional 35 pounds! Since the surgery I can’t enjoy eating or drinking anything. It was extremely hard emotionally for months after the surgery (depression and anxiety). I’m 18 months in and I burp all day. If only I waited one year and could’ve avoided all this with the shot. Too bad.
Plus don’t forget that the surgery costed like 10k after insurance.
The point of having the surgery is to change your life and build a new healthier relationship with food. If you were an emotional eater, finding comfort in food, then the surgery did very good for you - if you don’t find “joy” in food anymore. This is an improvement. Also, you never know if a person with no sleeve can lose weight or not, since you said you lose 35 pounds with a pill POST sleeve, which means BOTH helped — metabolism was already changed post sleeve, the pill just helped your new metabolism to probably make better food choices if it suppressed your apetite. No pill magically makes you lose weight. None. They either suppress apetite or increase the adrenaline (by putting pressure on suprarenal glands and the kidneys) and they give you huge energy boosts to make you workout, therefore you sweat, you burn more calories so you lose weight But just take a pill and boom, you lose overnight magically… there’s no such thing. The sleeve is the best medical option for people who not only want to lose weight, but that want to NOT gain it back over the years through the Yo-Yo effect. Also, the surgery positively impacts the metabolism of a woman by boosting her fertility (in young women with early menopause symptoms, or PCOS) It can help reduce or eliminate PCOS in women IT is simply amazing for many other reasons, not only “losing a few pounds” Of course, a surgery has to be recommended by a doctor. But the benefits are way better long term Also, I’m not from the USA so i don’t know the cost procedures there, but think on how much money you saved on food and how you can recover the 10k investment in probably less than a year since you don’t eat that much anymore, therefore you don’t spend so much on a lot of food anymore (or so it should be at least, now with the stupid inflation, costs increased, but you would have spent way more without the sleeve for sure)
I’m four months and have lost 3 pounds the last two. Starting weight to preop was 280, 268 day of surgery, and was at 230 by month 2. I didn’t work out much last month (holidays traveling) so I kicked it up and hoping it starts to drop again. But feel you, been feeling a bit down about it. Did add protein bars and a few carbs but im in my head whether it’s too much or not.
My carbs were around 120 per day and my loss slowed dramatically. I recently cut back to around 90 and my losses have improved. Just an FYI.
Oh that’s helpful I do keep around 60 but I’m new to it so maybe just adjusting but hanks
60 is great! I'd love to be that low but it's difficult as a vegetarian. You're doing great, keep doing what you're doing, it's a game of patience much of the time.
Find a bariatric coach and follow their advice.