Hello! Question for you guys! :) I have searched the forums and I couldn't find any answer, so decided to post. I am roughly 2 weeks away from my 1 year anniversary, and experiencing a 6-7 lb weight gain. Is it possible to regain weight before a year? I have been eating horribly and breaking all the rules you are not supposed to break after gastric bypass :(

Yes, it is wholly possible.  People will say that there are all sorts of reasons, water weight, bloat etc, but this surgery is not a magical cure and if your calories in far exceed your calories out - even at a year out, you can and will gain weight.

And also don't believe that you have to consume 3500 extra calories to gain a lb, I can assure you I don't need anything near that to gain 1lb!!! We are talking to and about people who do not have efficient metabolisms.

Absolutely. The horrible eating as you describe is the reason.  

It is possibly not lose but gain ...

Unless you clean what and how much you eat - you will see more regain...

I will echo Kim and Hala. If you are eating the wrong foods, you will absolutely experience regain before you're a year out. 

Yep, what the others said.

Keep in mind that, almost from the day you had your surgery, your body has been working to overcome the lack of caloric absorption by lengthening existing intestinal villi and growing additional ones in the non-bypassed portion of the intestine, so you are increasingly absorbing more of the calories you are eating, even when you make good choices.  Add poor food choices (or amounts) into the mix and it can be a double whammy.

You can break all the rules for the first 6 months and still lose weight, but after that, if you break the rules, the penalty is slowing of weight loss and, eventually, regain.

Get yourself back on track before the 6-7 pounds becomes 15-20 pounds.  Back to basics: protein first, limited carbs, no drinking with meals, and lots of water between meals. you still have some of your malabsorption, so stop the regain now. It will be harder to lose the regain the farther out you get.

Lora

Five months seems to be the magic number. For five months, it seems pretty nearly impossible to not lose weight. But I've seen people *****ally ignored the plan to start gaining as soon as six months. A lot start gaining at a year.

You know what's causing it. Get back on the horse.

i just recently gained 4-5 lbs.

It took me over 11-16 days to lose those 4-5 lbs.

I assure you those 4-5 lbs literally flew on in a day or two.

But they did not leave in a day or two. More like 2 weeks!

And I am only 14 months post op.