Gained 12 pounds, need help to get it off!

Hi, I am 1 1/2 years out and have just gained 12 pounds over the past month. I have definitely been eating the wrong foods and made bad choices. Plus I have been eating and picking throughout the day. I am wondering if anyone has tried the 5 day pouch test to kind of cleanse the system and get you back on track from craving the sweets and carbs. If you have done it what exactly did you do and how did it work out? Thanks for the help!

The 5DPT is just a fad liquid diet for RNYers and will just reinforce a dieting mentality.  Instead, just go back to basics (high protein, protein, first, limited carbs, limited portions, no drinking with meals, no unplanned snacking).  That will reinforce the new healthy eating that you need to maintain in order to keep the weight off long term.

That will do exactly the same thing that all liquids would do.

Lora

Lora: Thank you for posting about the 5DPT  I was thinking about giving it a try. I am post op approx . 9 1/2 years and I have gained 35 lbs. Although I had some serious complications, I left life affect me and slipped up. I need to get back on regular exercise and up my protein, as well as I am hoping to find some support online.

Hey, life happens and we all do the best we can.  Unfortunately, people who do the 5DPT to "feel the restriction again", to kick the carb cravings, or to "jumpstart" weight loss usually end up doing it more than once (not everyone, of course, but many), and you can do all of those things without going back to liquids.  Going back to the way you were eating at about 6 months out (assuming you were eating as you were supposed to at that point) can also kick the carb cravings, etc. (and smaller portion sizes for a few days will also help you feel the restriction again).  Remember, you don't need to eat until you are completely full, just until you are satisfied and have gotten enough protein in.

One of the best things my surgeon told me was "protein first, always" and I still follow that.  I eat the majority of my protein before I have more than a bite (ok, maybe two) of anything else and that has really helped me immensely.

You can do it!  Let us know how we can help.

Lora

Thanks Lora! I am going to give that a try. More protein and veggies and getting on the treadmill for 1/2 hour a day again too. I just have to get back in control! I have to watch those carbs too but I am hypoglycemic so I have to watch out for that as well. Thanks again!

I am sorry to disagree with some here but according to my surgeon and PCP this is a diet for the rest of life. If you think you can somehow not change a bad diet that got you fat to some magic this surgery does I really think you are fooling yourself. 

Semantics.....I call it my new normal you can call it a diet if that makes you happy. What we choose to eat daily to be successful and healthy could be called purple moon for all that matters. I think that the word "diet" is just something that we have all failed at many, many times. This post surgery way of eating can be named, just as the stages can (or not be) labeled, but it still is what it is.

I will NEVER call this way of life a diet. That is one never that I will say never about. I think that and saying that you can never eat more than a 1/2 cup (or whatever the amount you say) for the rest of your life is just a disservice to those looking at this process.

Just my opinion Larry, I'm sure that you feel as strongly the other way, and that's OK too.

Martha 

I couldn't disagree more strongly that this is "diet for the rest of life"!  It is not a diet, it is a new eating lifestyle, and NOWHERE in this thread did ANYONE say that  anyone could "not change a bad diet that got you fat"! I don't see anything in this thread where anyone said anything that could be interpreted that way.

Diets -- including that stupid 5DPT -- are, by definition, temporary ways of eating and just plain don't work.  Never have, never will.  People lose weight on a diet and then they regain it once they stop the diet.  Diets make people feel deprived.  The only thing that will work long-term is changing what you eat, but doing that doesn't mean a "diet for life".  It means making healthy food choices (but not limiting your food choices to some predefined list of foods) and controlling portions... and that is not a diet.

Lora

Well said Lora!!! I will be having surgery this Monday so reading this really put my mind at ease to not think diet but to think new eating lifestyle. Thank You! =)

I second the good advice from Lora and can empathize - - it's insidious how those old habits can creep back in. Once you have acknowledged what's not working, it's just really a matter of toughing it out thru the first few days of getting back on track. I've had several of those "start back ups" during this holiday season... and I'm staying away from the scale until I know my eating is back on plan.