I'm over 2 years post op and have found that I don't seem to have the same restriction. Is this normal?? I don't know if I've broken my pouch or its to do with a medication that I was taken which causes increase in appetite and not feeling full. Obviously in hindsight it was a stupid pill to give me.
I'd really appreciate some advice here as I've put on a few pounds and can't seem to shift it. So is it the meds or has my pouch broke??
Thanks for reading x
I think its a lot easier to break your mindset than break a pouch!
I really don't mean to be rude but the fact is.....If your'e putting on lbs then your'e not using up as many calories as you're putting in. We can make as many excuses as we wish ....low metabolism, 'but I exercise', 'I eat like a mouse' again without a calorie deficit we will store fat from extra calories and put weight on.
Medication and certain other medical conditions apart, we really are what we eat!
I would closely question the medicine and ask for an alternative ( the NHS usually try you on the cheapest alternative first. Your better than a cheap fix so explain the problem and ask for something that wont alter appetite or something to counteract that particular side efect of the meds.
As well as surgery being a physical restriction, it also acts as a mental catalyst and over time it can rearrange our long learned and 'hard wired' attitude to the kind of food we eat and to the portion size of that food.
Over more time we can "bypass our bypass" Not surgically or physically but mentally by our new attitudes slipping gently and quietly away from us.
This isn't greed or self indulgence, neither is it a cavalier attitude to our surgery - There are many reasons for the slip back to moving the scales up. Its impossible to guess which might have trigged who what where why and when!
I rather think returning to the liquid or mushy diet we have after surgery, and taking a few minutes each day / before meals to remember how you felt in the weeks and months after the initial surgery, remembering how if felt to look forward to a new figure, new clothes and so on might help in triggering the enthusiasm and motivation might reinvent your 'head stomach' and get it working in tandem with your tummy stomach, and kick start the weight loss/maintenance again.
I posted this bit of research result recently after another question about pouch size. I hope it helps and takes away a little bit of the stress re your own worries about pouch size. I found it on a reliable website by the way!
The very best of luck to you
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We then compared the weight loss of people with the known pouch size of each person, to see if the pouch size made a difference. In comparing the large pouches to the small pouches, THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE IN PERCENTAGE OF WEIGHT LOSS AMONG THE PATIENTS. This important fact essentially shows that it is NOT the size of the pouch but how it is used that makes weight loss maintenance possible."
