30lb weight gain - need help fast

I am so bloody annoyed with myself, in the last year i have started to let high fat/sugar foods into my diet, and this morning i finally plucked up the courage to step on the scales and i have gained 30lbs since last February.  I had gastric bypass 3 years ago, and i know better, but so many of the old habbits i thought i had banished have resurfaced and the daily exercise slowed tapered to a few days a week and now it has become non exsistent.  i desperately need to get back on track, im just not sure how to do it.  Can i stay on the protein shakes for 14 days as a kick start?  please help me get back on track again, need some practical advice to start afresh.  Thanks

This is purely anecdotal, but I had a conversation with my employer's interim president and CEO on a somewhat related topic.

When he was involved in the day-to-day operation of his own company, one of the employees underwent WLS and dropped considerable weight in a very short time...however, within a matter of  months, this same employee had begun to eat high-sugar/fat foods and began to regain some of that weight...their paths crossed in the lunchroom one day and the owner couldn't help but notice what the employee was eating and commented that since the company's health insurance plan had made the procedure possible because the employee was somewhat highly valued, it might not be a bad idea to demonstrate that it was a good risk by continuing to lose weight and then keep it off. The employee responded, cut out the high-sugar/fat foods, lost more weight and to the best of the owner's knowledge, has kept it off.

The point is that is seems that if you go back to eating the way you did in order to lose the weight and keep it off 3 years ago, it won't be long before you're back to how you used to be (in a good way).

point well taken, sometimes its the first step of getting back on track thats the hardest though, but i know it has to be done, i dont ever want to go back to where i came from!!

 OK, here is how RNY goes for almost everyone.   The first year you lose about 100 pounds.  It is effortless and staying on the food plan is pretty effortless.  Year two more weight comes off and by the end of year two the lowest BMI of the journey has been reached.  By the end of year two you have learned to add the high calories foods and drinks back and can do that without gaining an ounce.

Sometime during the third year the body kicks into serious gaining mode.  It learns how to absorb calories again.  The pouch holds a lot more food, dumping goes away. We are still relatively slim compared to before surgery.  We figure we can crash diet and lose the extra pounds anytime we want, probably will just take a few weeks.  We lose interest in exercising.  We enjoy great meals.  We are careful to stay away from the scale and tell ourselves to judge by the quality of our lives and not how much we weigh.

One day we get the courage to step onto the scale and see that we have found about 20 new pounds.  That can be ignored or dealt with.  If ignored it will get higher.  If dealt with, it will not be easy.  There is no magic in protein shakes.  I gave them up long ago.  I do not need supplemental calories.  I have enough weight as it is.  You need real food and very little of it.  You need to eat and drink much less than you are doing now.  You need more exercise.  

My weight loss is much slower now than it was before surgery.  I do have the advantage of my tool and can fill it up very easily.  I do the best will very low calories.  I am talking about 800 a day when I really want to get pounds off.  My magic weapon is my scale.  I use it every morning and always know exactly what I weigh.  If I don't weigh, then I can stay in denial.  The only way I maintain at my goal is by being honest with myself and listening to my scale.

 it is as if you are inside my body right now.  This is 100% my journey, except that extra 20 is actually an extra 31 lbs.  I NEEEEEED to get back on track now that I'm halfway through year 3

Wow. This is not the case for all RNY folks and definitely not me.

 It took a year to gain the 30 pounds, it'll take some time to take it off.  Just go back to eating your protein, drinking your fluids, and avoiding carbs, and you'll lose the weight.  Then... stay away from the carbs.  

Excellent, sensible advice - Jennifer M!  

Get exercising too - it's part of the lifestyle for all of us who want to maintain our weight and enjoy our good health!

You've already said where you have strayed, so just cut that out and you'll find your pouch works perfectly well without any fad diets or programs!   You know exactly what you are supposed to do!

Thank you for your courage and honesty. I truly understand exactly what you're talking about and more importantly, how you feel. I had wls surgery Sept '98 and I mustered up courage and got on the scale - 10lbs above goal BUT 20lbs above my average weight of the lsst three years.

It csan be done - I've lost 12lbs in the last 4 weeks by simply going back to basics. I've nevered stopped protein shakes but I changed brands so I went back to using Unjury. 2-3 shakes a day and one small meal.  

Have you considered the 5 day pouch test for a jump start?

THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY, AND CONGRATS ON THE WEIGHT LOSS - 12LBS IN 4 WEEKS IS MIGHTY IMPRESSIVE.  YES, TIME FOR THE SHAKES AGAIN AND POUCH TEST!!!  AND YES TO EVERYONE, TIME TO START BACK AT THE GYM, ALTHOUGH I SHALL NOT BE WORKING OUT IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR FOR QUIET SOME TIME!!!

THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR REPLIES - YOU ARE SUCH GREAT SUPPORT :)