I am going to get back on track again..

Now dont be getting on your high horse there missy. This "Im going to get back on track again.." post only proves I was right to start with. You need to come to terms with some hard and ugly facts. A stretched pouch isnt why your RNY failed you. I know I can eat as much or more than "normal" people now. I dont eat as much as over weight people though, or even close. Your pouch isnt meant to stay 1ounce for long. A normal post op RNY patient should be eating 8 - 12ounces per meal for life after the first 18 months or so. An 8 - 12 ounce meal is actually pretty big. Its not the 2 whole pizzas I could down pre op but thats a small sacrifice to pay for me. You could be skinny by next year without further surgery if you followed the same rules I do. NO its NOT easy. Living life after wls isnt easy in general. I sure as heck never ate like this pre op. Not just volume wise either. I rarely ate meat or protein based foods. A loaf of white bread toasted and dripping in melted hard margarine and jam, eaten over the coure of the day as snacks, was a little slice of heaven to me. Its also hands down about as BAD as food can get when it comes to my body turning it into fat instead of energy. I could easily STILL do that now, volume and all. The only thing that stops me is filling up on protein and fluids and changing my mind to not eat simple carbs regularly anymore. You had the RNY and never hang out on the RNY board UNLESS its to talk about the DS you dont have. Why is this? Maybe because you know you are non compliant and to hang out with us, reading how we live and lose weight is too hard to read knowing you dont do it yourself. I know what its like to be around people who have succeeded where I failed. Its hell. Its even worse when I know I failed on my own and not due to cir****tance. If someone came over to this board and said "DS sucks, it failed me I only lost X weight and regained X weight" and THEN said something like "I eat much less than 100 grams of protein a day, mcuh less than 80 grams of fat a day and over 500 grams of carbs a day" you can bet everyone here would say HOLD on, you gotta eat right or suffer the concequences.  One thing that really scares me is revision surgery. Revisions are more dangerous surgeries in general and revision patients have even lower weight loss stats than the rest of us :( Basically if you cant follow the rules of one wls technique what's to stop you from following another one? Obviously mechanical failure is NOT in this category.  You can hate me for telling you the truth. That's life. I hope that you see there is a "diet" involved with the DS. It requires MORE protein based foods than they RNY. This is one of the reasons I was personally turned off of the DS. I grew up on kraft dinner, oatmeal, toast, cookies, cake and other protein free foods. In the past I would lust carbs and simply tolerate protein. Being "honest" to you about your issues is the same as being honest to me because IF I fail at RNY it will be from going back to that 100% carb diet I lived with my whole life. A DS revision would just be another chance for me to die on the operating table to be even more severely pushing myself into a high protein diet. If nothing else, getting back on track now will help you get your labs perfect before surgery, lose a couple of pounds and get you into the groove for your new life as a post op DS patient. None of which am I sorry for. The always dispisable, PK