JaneN
August, 2007. Looks like my original postings didn't come over to the new look. I'm currently 4 years postop - surgery was August, 2003. I weighed 305 before surgery (and am 5'6"), my lowest postop weight was 180. I made it to 180 by rigorously dieting off the last 30 lbs. As before surgery, once the diet stopped, the weight returned. Currently I weigh about 215. It's the best I have been able to manage considering that my compulsion to overeat didn't get removed with the gastric bypass.
Many days I wish to be thinner, but must remember how far I've come and am grateful that I no longer weigh 305. Besides, at the rate I was gaining, I would very likely weight 350 by now!
Best wishes to all of you who are on this journey. I always wanted to see profiles of people who were several years postop to learn whether they had maintained their weight loss. Not all of us make it 100%, but we all do the best we can.