Help: Maintaining Weight after Surgery

gretchenhill

It's been a year after my weight loss surgery by help of PlacidWay, I having difficulties on maintaining my weight. I was 170pounds but I gain weight loss and it becomes to 180. It's very hard for me to maintain my weight, I can't control myself eating and eating. But every morning I do lemon ginger for my detox, I also control eating more rice, but still I eat not healthy foods. Do you have tips of how I maintain my weight? And best exercise?

IvoryParchment

I'm not getting the impression that you are logging calories. Lemon ginger and "more rice" aren't going to help you maintain your weight loss.

Get a food scale and measuring cups and measure very, very accurately. Find out where your calories are coming from. You CAN control yourself, but not if you don't have accurate information to make choices.

Personally, I'd rather eat a pint of strawberries than half a cup of cooked brown rice (same calories), but that's just me.

nxd10

I agree with everything the previous poster said. One of the things that I learned when I started logging was that a lot of foods I thought of as 'healthy' and 'low calorie' had a lot more calories than I thought (like rice). And a lot of things I thought were high cal had many fewer calories than I thought (like meat).

What you write suggests to me that you are thinking about weight loss in terms of gimicks and tricks. It really is about knowledge and healthy eating. It is boring, persistent good habits and good choices.

Weigh your food. Log your food.

I just happened to be reading this. It may be helpful to you:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/

This is a picture of a 'healthy eating plate' showing the balance you should have in your diet:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/files/2013/04/HEPApr2013.jpg

It's not exciting. It will help.