Re: If I was a failure at the lapband would I be successful with ...

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I am going to have to agree with April. I have known too many people who have learned to "eat around" the gastric bypass and regain all their weight back. I happen to love the sleeve. Any weight loss surgery is just a tool and it is ALL about lifestyle change. And it has to be a 'FOREVER LIFESTYLE CHANGE." if you want to be healthy and maintain your weight loss.

Suzanne

In a message dated 4/6/2011 2:14:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, april.white@... writes:

Sorry to speak up here, but I personally know two people who had gastric bypass who have regained almost all of their 100 lb. loss, so I don't think that's the greatest procedure vs. the sleeve. I lost 133 pounds with the VSG and have kept it all off after 20 mos. post-op. My GBP friends have regained. Just sayin'>

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Anyone can learn to eat around their surgery type.  With bypass the reason I'm not a fan is that they have a pouch and stoma, similar to a band.  But unlike the band over time the stoma can dilate and that doesn't leave anything holding food in their stomach so the 'full' signals go away.  They just don't feel full.  Then considering they are only malabsorbing for 6-24 months a few years post op if their stoma has dilated they are hungry all the time and no longer malabsorbing calories.

So I don't think it's that bypass folks learn to eat around their surgery type more than anyone else, they just have mechanical problems instead that lead to overeating.Some people are seriously metabolically challenged and they need that 6-24 months of malabsorption.  It's kinda one of those things that we all have to do what is right for us.  But make no mistake, in the end bypass has to eat like sleeve folks to maintain.  Bypass itself isn't going to 'keep' anyone at goal.  No surgery type does because no surgery type fixes white carbs and 99% of us likely become obese due to white carbs.  That's where the lifestyle changes come into play.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:45 PM, <SuzanneSH@...> wrote:

 

I am going to have to agree with April.  I have known too many people who have learned to " eat around " the gastric bypass and regain all their weight back.  I happen to love the sleeve.  Any weight loss surgery  is  just a tool and it is ALL about lifestyle change.  And it has to be a 'FOREVER LIFESTYLE CHANGE. " if you want to be healthy and maintain your weight loss. 

 

Suzanne

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i have gained a lot back and had the band done..but still smaller than when i started..but i hardly eat...and sometimes throw up all day...and still stay the same...i am stuck in limbo...and well...sometimes wonder if i should have ever gotten it with the way i feel..right now this morning my son asked if i wanted some gum..i said no...afraid to put anything in my mouth..will just throw up...and i have absolutely no restriction in right now..would always get too tight...so told them to completely take the cc's out..there are things i love about it..but things i hate...and well this week..not loving it...lol...but again...i am smaller than i was..and wearing smaller clothing...and who knows where i would be if i didnt have it..so....i am about 40/ 60 ...with it..

From: SuzanneSH@... <SuzanneSH@...>Subject: Re: If I was a failure at the lapband would I be successful with ... Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:45 PM

I am going to have to agree with April. I have known too many people who have learned to "eat around" the gastric bypass and regain all their weight back. I happen to love the sleeve. Any weight loss surgery is just a tool and it is ALL about lifestyle change. And it has to be a 'FOREVER LIFESTYLE CHANGE." if you want to be healthy and maintain your weight loss.

Suzanne

In a message dated 4/6/2011 2:14:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, april.white@... writes:

Sorry to speak up here, but I personally know two people who had gastric bypass who have regained almost all of their 100 lb. loss, so I don't think that's the greatest procedure vs. the sleeve. I lost 133 pounds with the VSG and have kept it all off after 20 mos. post-op. My GBP friends have regained. Just sayin'>

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Is there anyone out there that has regained weight after having the sleeve?

On Apr 7, 2011 10:21 AM, " sandy doyle " <doylesandy@...> wrote:> i have gained a lot back and had the band done..but still smaller than when i started..but i hardly eat...and sometimes throw up all day...and still stay the same...i am stuck in limbo...and well...sometimes wonder if i should have ever gotten it with the way i feel..right now this morning my son asked if i wanted some gum..i said no...afraid to put anything in my mouth..will just throw up...and i have absolutely no restriction in right now..would always get too tight...so told them to completely take the cc's out..there are things i love about it..but things i hate...and well this week..not loving it...lol...but again...i am smaller than i was..and wearing smaller clothing...and who knows where i would be if i didnt have it..so....i am about 40/ 60 ...with it..

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> Subject: Re: If I was a failure at the lapband would I be successful with ...> > Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:45 PM

> > >   > > > > > I am going to have to agree with April.  I have known too many people who have learned to " eat around " the gastric bypass and regain all their weight back.  I happen to love the sleeve.  Any weight loss surgery  is  just a tool and it is ALL about lifestyle change.  And it has to be a 'FOREVER LIFESTYLE CHANGE. " if you want to be healthy and maintain your weight loss. 

>  > Suzanne>  > > In a message dated 4/6/2011 2:14:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, april.white@... writes:>   > > Sorry to speak up here, but I personally know two people who had gastric bypass who have regained almost all of their 100 lb. loss, so I don't think that's the greatest procedure vs. the sleeve. I lost 133 pounds with the VSG and have kept it all off after 20 mos. post-op. My GBP friends have regained. Just sayin'

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