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Hello, I had a 2 part DS back in 2009. I was 485 lbs and lost to 165-170 lbs. Within a few years, I shot up to 180, and stayed there. My doctor was happy with it, and I felt great wearing size 10 jeans. Over the past year several things have happened to alter my weight. First, I entered menopause, secondly I developed severe insomnia and my antipsychotic, which I never gained weight on, changed to one known for weight gain, but also knocked you out. I have steadily gained weight since July of last year. I am now up to 208, and tryiing to make a drastic change. I started 18:6 intermittent fasting, as well as 40 net carbs per day. I have been in ketosis for about 10 days now consistently. I lost 6lbs the first week,(204.8) and I was thrilled, but over the course of this week, while still being in ketosis and following the same 45 net/110/150 regime, I am back up to 208.
I would love it if anyone could give me their current macros 10+ years out. I know that I am still malabsorbing to some degree, because my carbs are too high to be in ketosis, yet I am. If this scale dont move soon, I will be defeated. The hard part is not knowing whether im not losing because I eat too much, too little, or just havent given it enough time.
Thank you for letting me rant! Any help that you could give would be greatly appreciated.
Tina
we metabolize 100% of the carbs we eat which can cause weight gain. 40 gms of carbs might be too much for you.
I have to set 20 or less carbs a day to lose snd calories between 600-800.
what does a days menu look like for you?
Im sorry, I weighed 385 lbs the day of surgery. My memory is not what it use to be.
Hello, I had a 2 part DS back in 2009. I was 485 lbs and lost to 165-170 lbs. Within a few years, I shot up to 180, and stayed there. My doctor was happy with it, and I felt great wearing size 10 jeans. Over the past year several things have happened to alter my weight. First, I entered menopause, secondly I developed severe insomnia and my antipsychotic, which I never gained weight on, changed to one known for weight gain, but also knocked you out. I have steadily gained weight since July of last year. I am now up to 208, and tryiing to make a drastic change. I started 18:6 intermittent fasting, as well as 40 net carbs per day. I have been in ketosis for about 10 days now consistently. I lost 6lbs the first week,(204.8) and I was thrilled, but over the course of this week, while still being in ketosis and following the same 45 net/110/150 regime, I am back up to 208.
I would love it if anyone could give me their current macros 10+ years out. I know that I am still malabsorbing to some degree, because my carbs are too high to be in ketosis, yet I am. If this scale dont move soon, I will be defeated. The hard part is not knowing whether im not losing because I eat too much, too little, or just havent given it enough time.
Thank you for letting me rant! Any help that you could give would be greatly appreciated.
Tina
MajorMom,
You were right. Didn'****ch my calcium enough and have broken three bones this past year. One was a bad break while skiing. I was in a wheelchair for 12 weeks and put on some weight.
i had to get an iron infusion and now officially have osteoporosis. Starting on meds for that.
So,.... I am getting ready to go back to square one with protein, vitamins and trying to exercise. I hate the 17 lbs that I have gained and am beating the hell out of myself for letting things slip.
Thank you again for all you do.
Connie
albumin, prealbumin, creat, bun, transferrin
If you have a specific question for me, PM me or I will not see it, as I don't check responses on the forums and don't have anything forwarded to my email.
what is your present weight now ?
Have a question relating to Colombia surgeons. I found out the other day that the daughter-in-law of a friend of mine is going to be flying to Colombia (don't know which city) next week for apparently a revision from an unsuccessful RNY a few years ago to either a DS or V.S.G. (not sure which). 
Although she has health ins. here (she is an RN), supposedly her ins. would not cover it (or they would if she kicked in $25K or so of her own money, per her MIL) so she is going there and having it performed for $8K U.S. cash. That revision is even cheaper than my original DS in Brazil was 14 years ago ($10K)! 
I was not aware of any DS or VSG surgeons in Colombia that cater to U.S. patients, let alone ones that do revisions, and that price just seems too good to be true. Does anyone know of any? I hope she has not been suckered into something that may end up not boding well for her ...
Frank talk about the DS / "All I ever wanted to be was thin, like that Rolling Stones dude ... "
HW/461 LW/251 GW/189 CW/274 (yep, a DS semi-failure - it happens :-( )
HW 372 SW 350 CW 185 GW 150 Lost 187 so far....
