Getting Control of the Weight Gain by Suppressing the Appetite!

Okay, everyone, it's time to face up to our weight gain and losing the self control we once had after surgery!

How many of you that are reading this, have gained weight back and want to get back to your lowest weight or to your 'goal' weight, if you never got there?

This surgery is our 'tool' to help us get the weight off, but the surgery can't do anything for our 'willpower' or 'self-control' of our appetites.  We try the 'pouch test' and the 'time out' diet, 'accountability' threads, and even revisions of our surgeries to get the weight off, but we are still hungry and we want to EAT! This surgery only shrunk our stomachs and helped with the absorption of calories (for a while), but it never worked on the SOURCE of the problem, which is our appetite!

I'm posting this because, for ME, the only way I can curb my appetite, is to take an appetite suppressant, when I've gained weight back.  Three separate times, in the last six years, since my surgery, I've gained up to 182 and all 3 times I've lost it again.  I do it by getting back to basics, making sure I only eat 1200 calories a day (weigh****cher points or fitday) and if I need help (when I get to 180 or higher), I take an appetite suppressant. 

At first, I took Hydroxycut and it worked for me, but not for my daughter (she hasn't had surgery but needs to lose 30 pounds).  She tried it and she might as well have taken a placebo pill at a test trial.  But another girl at her high school dropped over 40 pounds by taking something she bought online and it's an asian herbal suppressant. My daughter bought a month supply and dropped the weight, so I tried it.  It's not cheap and there are 'fakes' of it out there, so you have to make sure you are getting the original when you buy it.

It's called 'Lida Daidaihua' and you take one a day, in the morning and that's it.  My daughter doesn't diet with it and she loses weight but not as fast as I do.  When I take them, I eat only one thing every hour or so because of my blood sugar levels and I'm never hungry.  The weight just falls off!  I got back to 155 by my sixth anniversary in August, but I've gained back 13 pounds so I started them again on Monday, and I've already dropped six pounds in two days! 

My plans are to take this until I get to my goal of 140 because I never got there, but once I get there, I'm going to continue eating only one thing every hour or so just to maintain my weight loss.  The KEY to keeping the weight off, is to WEIGH EVERY DAY and only allow yourself a FIVE POUND GAIN and that's it!  Once you get to the 5 pound mark, get back to basics until you get it off again!  That way you never see the scales climb and you keep the weight off!  If you need an appetite suppressant, then take it!  The surgery didn't work on your appetite and we all have one - we just need to suppress it! 

If you want to check out this supplement, here is the website.  They aren't cheap but they WORK!  If you can't afford them, try hydroxycut or the supplement of your choice.  We all need help and we all struggle with getting the weight off.  Don't be ashamed or prideful about taking something, because we are still like those who haven't had surgery when it comes to the appetite centers of our brains! 

 http://lidadaidaihua.com

WOW...thanks for sharing that. As you know, in the past I have used your eating every hour plan and it does help. But for the last month or so I have had the BIGGEST urge to eat (can't say for sure if it is real hunger or head hunger or a combination of both...) But I have gained approximately 8 lbs or so and I just keep losing and gaining the same 8 lbs every month. So far it hasn't come off THIS month and It is driving me NUTS. If i could just lose that 8 lbs and KEEP it off I will be content but this yo-yoing is really stressing me out. And we all know that stress makes you GAIN weight. But $50 a box.....it really works??  Donna

There is a warning/recall not to use this product. Please see  www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/recalls/reclfull/2006/05apr-2006.html

I tried clicking on that link, but nothing comes up!  Can you try it again maybe?  If there's something in this stuff, then I need to know about it!  It DOES work but so does Hydroxycut, at least for me anyway!

I would advise everyone to check with their doctors first.   I took appetite suppressants for years and I have 3 leaky heart valves to show for it.  Just please check with your gastric or family doctor before taking anything.  Laura

I looked up the main ingredient and found lots of websites for it.  Here is the name of it: sibutramine.  It is a weight loss aid with the normal side effects that most appetite suppressants have that I can see.  I would recommend taking it every OTHER day as our systems are sensitive more than the normal person!

Dang it, you're right my link didn't work. I just googled the stuff and came up with this advisory. It is sibutramine that they advise against stating it is rx only and shouldn't be used in conjuction with antidepressants. So it really does work? I might have to try it anyway. i am feeling desperate!

Sibutramine is meridia! Cool, but i did find some links that said beware of fakes. I couldn't get the initial link to work, please send it to me. Thanks

Just type in Lida Daidaihua and it will come up.  I have to say that if you get it, use it every other day because it's really potent! 

A lot of those "suppliments" are a waste of money...and are dangerous.  I'd highly recommend anyone considering taking them, talk to their doctor first.   Wouldn't doing the 5 day pouch thinggy for you RNYers be safer? Scott