post-op question

I am a little over one year post op, and i had a check up with my surgeoun today, and i was told that my body is going to start to "fix" the ,malabsorbtion issue, and if i am going to lose any more weight i need to lose it all with in the next few month. Why havent i heard this before?

I have never heard of this either. I am interested to see what others will post.

I heard you lose the most in a year, but i thought this was a life long thing, and i would always be on the losing side of things...no matter what. im worried because i only lost 83 lbs, i want to lose 60 more!

forgot to mention that this is why they always say to use your honemoon period to develop new habits. It not only gets harder to lose weight--it gets easier to gain weight.

You have 1 - 2 years to lose most of the extra weight you are carrying. Then your body catches up in reacting and the weight lost does slow down drasticly. Which then as you've been sticking to the diet you'll need to get strict for most to not gain but other just keep losing to a point they need to gain to stop the losing. No One is the same but some are close. Mike

The first year to year and a half are known as the honeymoon period because of this. This is your body trying to repair itself. You will still be able to lose weight it will just be more difficult.

Everyone is different. The only people who lose waaay out are people who have had distal bypass done. Most of us are proximal. Your Doc is right. I stopped cold at 10 months out. Stayed the same for 2 years then started gaining like crazy. This is what we have been preaching and preaching all along. WLS is just a means to an end...and once the end is here...IT'S OVER. Then you have to work like a Gladiator to keep the weight off...an beleive me, it gets harder and harder. I am 4 years out and just over goal...working to get back down. Its not magic. Now the real work begins...can you do it? Hugs from the beach Charlie

My surgeon told me that by 18 months to 2 years your body has healed & trained itself to compensate as much as possilbe for the bypass (intestines actually grow additional villi to aid absorbtion). Your body has become more efficent at absorbing nutrients & calories which means just eating small amounts is no longer the best way to lose weight. We have to not only watch our calorie intake, but also need to be exercising and watch WHAT we are eating, not just the number of calories. This makes sense to me since most wls patients I've known talk about how difficult it is to lose and/or maintain weight after 2 years. Vickie J.

Im not sure wht the "fix" is..but I know that between 12 - 24 months you will start stabilizing due to the villi in your instestinal track growing back or awaken. The villi are tiny hairlike fibers that line the instestinal track and Im not sure if they are alsleep, hehehehe or what happens to them initially but once we get out to about 24months they are awaken and start absorbing more nutrients so it becomes hard to lose weight..that is why early good eating habits are necessary so that once this villi awakens and starts absorbing more it will absorb good nutrients and we can at some point lose when we want to lose more. I'll be happy if I just dont gain. Hugs