I applaud you both! It is so easy to go back to old habits and behaviors! I wish you both the best of luck in your recommitment to being healthy!

I am 3 years out from sleeve surgery. I am still not to goal but not ready to be done either. I lose slowly and stall often, but figure I will eventually get to that 160 goal, might take another 3 years but that's OK.

Feel free to add me if you want. My surgery was different than yours, but I'm willing to be a supporter and friend.

Pat

Well, I can tell you what my surgeon's office says the "rules" are. BTW I'm 29 months post op from RNY. My starting weight was 347.5lbs and I'm hanging around 170lbs right now. I'd like to lose 35 more pounds or so, but it's honestly getting harder.

My surgeon requires 60-80 grams of protein a day, 20-30 grams of fiber a day. We need to eat 3 bites of protein per one bit of anything else. A minimum of 64 oz of water a day in the winter and 100 oz a day in the summer (I'm in Phoenix so we have extreme heat issues here). Stop drinking anything 30 min before a meal, take 20 min to eat the meal and then don't drink for 30 min after the meal. After about a year meals should be around 300 cals each (3 meals a day) with 2 100 calorie high protein snacks a day. Grains should be whole grain only and other carbs should come from low or no fat dairy, fruit and veggies.

Our vitamin program is 3 servings of multi-vit a day, 1500 mg calcium, 36 mg iron, 3000 mg vit. D, and a sublingual b-12 weekly.

Also at least 30 min of exercise a day.

So, how does this translate into reality? I've been pretty stalled for about 3 months on weight loss. My own fault, I haven't been tracking what I'm eating and I've been slacking off on my nutrition. Fortunately, I exercise a lot so I haven't gained any weight, just not lost. In general my protein is a little higher than the 60-80 gram mark even when I'm eating really clean and well. I also drink around 128 oz of water a day on average. I'm very susceptible to dehydration and being in Phoenix in the summer I'm pretty conscientious about it. I didn't start to exercise until a year after surgery. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone, but that's what I did. When I did start I was down 124lbs. In my 1st year exercising I lost 40lbs. I discovered that it's about 80% or more what you put in your mouth and about 20% or less exercise. Don't get me wrong, I now love to exercise (though I REALLY didn't at 1st), and I really like how exercise makes me feel, but it is not the magic bullet for weight loss....good food control and nutrition is. Even though now I can't eat large portions and sugary foods generally make me sick, I can still stall my weight loss through bad nutrition and over eating. I do a 45 min very hard co-ed boot camp 4 mornings a week, I run about 10+ miles a week (and increasing as I'm training for a 1/2 marathon in Nov.), I weight train 2-3 days a week and then on non-run days I do another 60 min of hard cardio in a spin class or on an elliptical or stair climber. I take 1 rest day a week.