Well, I am just at the 4 yr mark as is my DH and we are successfully keeping our weight off. I will be honest with you and say that I gained a little due to not being able to exercise for six months. When I say some I mean 15ish#. I am back on track now after my knee injury and am moving around much easier than I was back in say January.
When I hear of people that gain that much weight back it really makes me wonder what they are eating or drinking. I still have the restriction, I do dump tho it takes me a lot of sugar to do so but it really makes me think again before I eat whatever it was that caused the dumping. Like at the parade yesterday I had some of the candy that is thrown, I felt dumping coming on and stopped real fast from having anymore. Thank goodness the Memorial Day parade only comes once a year. I also have a fantastic program that I am still involved in with my doctor's office with relevant support groups in addition to any contact that I might need from any of the in office professional staff.
When you say that a person's habits should have been formed by the 5 year mark, how do you know that they even had any direction with a successful program? Do they come here for support, did they have a doctor that knew what s/he was doing in the OR, does that doctor's group have any good follow up for the patients in the form of groups, annual visits, nutrition help before and after, physc help (if needed), exercise help etc? There are so many doctors out there that really do not have a well rounded program and they hang their patients out and really seem to not be there to help. I have some friends that had WLS and they are not into support groups AT ALL. I am watching them real closely. I am there to help but 2 of them I think are really going to flounder at the 5 year mark if not before.
Just some of my ramblings.
Christine
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