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Increase your protein and get rid of the bad carbs in the house. More protein you eat the less hungry you are. After a few days your body won't be craving the sugars, but your mind always will. It's something wls won't ever fix. Don't allow yourself indulgences until you are maintaining.

10 pounds a month is about right, actually. Plus you've had previous WLS so that has an affect. Add a protein shake or 2 to help with cravings. It may help to go carbless for a few days to break the habit.

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Yes - you need to keep in mind that you are a revision, and revisions historically lose "slower" than virgin WLSers.  10 lbs. a month is nothing to sneeze at, though!!

Are you doing any protein shakes?  The more protein you get in, the "fuller" you're going to feel.  Plus, it helps with minimizing muscle mass loss, in my opinion.  I was losing a ton of muscle mass during my rapid weight loss phase until Gina told me to start sucking down those shakes.  It has helped my labs, I feel better, and I actually still have muscles even though I don't really work out (other than my really physical job). 

One other thought is to try to start adding in some more complex carbs, especially vegetables.  They help with vitamins, they help you add variety to your diet, and they help add fiber which in turn helps make you feel fuller.

You've already had great advice about more protein and less carbs, so I'll just comment that your mother is wrong, your weight loss thus far is just fine, and if she isn't pleased that you're 50 lbs lighter that says far more about her than it does about you. Some people are just determined to be negative and unhappy. Some are determined to sabotage others, or to make other people feel badly about themselves.
     Or she could just be a concerned parent, I have no way of knowing, but I've seen enough of these comments both here and irl to question her motives. There are a lot of people who are unhappy and don't want anyone else to be happy either.

Larra

 Jennifer, 
tons of good advice ! Ditch those carbs and increase protein and fluids ... things will move. If you can't do it on your own, seek some therapy as to why your sabataging your foods.  Bet your can do it, just make up your mind to best this ! 

Hi Jennifer,

If i can give you any advice it would be to stay away from those carbs, I am post op 5 years and have a very hard time with my surgery and weight loss.

I never got to goal i started out at 305 and got down to 190 but it took me 3 years to get there and now i have gained 55 pounds back, i have other issues but the carbs didn't help at all.

I have never been so depressed in my life, i am trying so hard to lose this weight but it is really taking its toll on me.

Please please please, don't make the same mistakes i did.

Your still so fresh out, trust me you don't want to be in my shoes.

Dutchy

Do you keep a food diary? I use one on my smart phone and It has been the biggest help to me. I see exactly what I am putting in and what I burn for exercise. It's really surprising when you record everything.

I use mynetdiary. The point is that I really believe using something, anything, really helps.

I love that it's on my smartphone and I can use the barcode scanner.  I actually got the smartphone just for that reason. Very helpful when I'm not home. I've also found that I can save some money on protein shakes because at this point (almost 10 months out) the reporting shows me that I am easily reaching my protein goals.

For what it's worth - 50 lbs in 5 months is really good. I really don't think you should beat yourself up. Just monitor your intake, exercise and make use of your new tools.

Hi there,

Well early on with my DS i felt there was something different for me, i just didn't feel like i malabsorbed, maybe it was a sign of things to come, my weight came off very slow, and i was and still am incredibly constipated, I can litterly eat 5 slices of bacon with eggs and butter and it won'tdo a thing for me in that department, for me fat is not my friend, nor are the carbs.

Carbs were and still are very easy for me to eat, i have a hard time getting in protein but the carbs go down like there is no tomorrow, and i have no side effects no gas no oil slicks nothing.

I was very good in the beginning about getting in my vitamins, but in the last year i have not taken any, and all my blood work is normal.

I have had many tests and my colon is good, everything looks good, but i have not had the forgiveness this surgery has allowed many people, I wish i could turn the clock back and not have taken that first potato chip or slice of bread, now all i eat is veggies and meat, the odd fruit and tons of water, and the scale does nothing but go up.

My cholesterol also went up and i am not on lipitor and now my blood pressure is up so i am monitoring that, it is a never ending battle.

The first 6 months you don't eat much, you don't want to eat much i never did protein shakes but i should have i really missed the mark on that one.

My downfall has been night grazing, big huge trouble for me, those bad habits just crept back in and i fell for them hard, maybe if i had the bad gas or crazy pain i would of not eaten them, even though i have huge restriction it doesn't matter i still get all the calories in.

I have to change the way i feel about food and no surgery will do that for me, it has to come from within me, my brain needed the operation too.

The surgery was the hardest thing i went through physically but post op has been the most mentally difficult thing in my life.

You do the most drastic radical thing like have wls, the gold standard of all surgeries, and i have failed.

But i am trying to get back on track and for the last 6 weeks i have given up pop, carbs, and all things with sugar, no bread, no chips, no candy, no nothing... it has been tough but i am not giving up, i refuse to let this tool go to waste, i know it is there somewhere.

All the best.

Dutchy

Wow, thanks for all of the good tips. I will definitely add those to my shopping list for this weekend.