Hi...my name is Raylene...I had a surgrey a few years ago. I had lost 130 pounds but over the past year have gained back 30 pounds. By doing everything wrong...not eating right, not exercising. And ideas on how to get back on track and to get my mind where it needs to be. Thanks
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TwoMas
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Hi Raylene, Welcome. It's great you noticed what is going on so soon and you see where you have faultered so it should be farely easy for you to get back on track, you can either try out the 5 day pouch test at this link- http://www.americanbariatrics.org/content.php/80-Roux-en-Y-Gastric-Bypass-5-Day-Pouch-Test Or you can just start at the basics and break out your old meal plans and start writing down what you eat, protien content, and calories. If you have a nutritionist it would help to contact them to get a basic meal plan down and maximum calories needed a day but if not your first years guidelines should work for you. I try and stick to 60 to 80 gm of protien a day and between 1200 and 1800 calories a day depending on how much exercise I get and dont forget water 64 ozs a day is a good target, your calories and protien needs may differ slightly than mine, that is why it is good to have a nutitionist to consult. Also it is very important to start going to bariatric support group meetings if you have them in your area, if not I hear TOPS works well to. Hope I was able to help you out a little. You did this before and you have what it takes so all you have to do now is just "Do It!" I know you can. 
Tom
TomI'm with Tom. this is a good time to get back on track by analyzing the things you know you are doing wrong---not eating right, not exercising, etc. Remember how you felt at your highest weight? I'm sure you don't want to go back there.
I have read a few books and articles by experts who stress behavioral changes, and that has helped me. Analyzing your relationaship with food and the reasons for overeating. Understanding your triggers. WLS is a great way to get to goal weight, but maintenance is even harder.
Even Valerie Bertinelli's last book "Losing It.." had some very good ideas about maintenance and not sliding back into old habits and emotional eating.
I have read a few books and articles by experts who stress behavioral changes, and that has helped me. Analyzing your relationaship with food and the reasons for overeating. Understanding your triggers. WLS is a great way to get to goal weight, but maintenance is even harder.
Even Valerie Bertinelli's last book "Losing It.." had some very good ideas about maintenance and not sliding back into old habits and emotional eating.
Qaterra
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Hi, Raylene,
You are due Congratulations on so many levels! You gifted yourself with weight loss surgery. You have now identified where you are and what's wrong (as far as you're concerned) with it, and you have taken first action steps to fix it. After all, you came here, didn't you?!
Both Tom and Karenina make important points.
Seems to me, maybe the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get yourself to a bariatric surgery support group. Now. Not next month. Not next week. But now, just as soon as you can locate one. (If you're lucky enough to have more than one readily available, just pick one; if you don't like that one, find another.) There's no need to feel ashamed or embarrassed. Many wls patients have been in your shoes.
Deal with where you are now. It is what it is. You can't change what has gone before. You can sure seize control of what comes next. There's no need to beat yourself up over how you got here, though I bet you already have done some of that.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and proceed from here.
There are some terrific people here, great support. That said, nothing beats face-to-face, real time support.
Please check in and let us know how you're doing.
You are due Congratulations on so many levels! You gifted yourself with weight loss surgery. You have now identified where you are and what's wrong (as far as you're concerned) with it, and you have taken first action steps to fix it. After all, you came here, didn't you?!
Both Tom and Karenina make important points.
Seems to me, maybe the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get yourself to a bariatric surgery support group. Now. Not next month. Not next week. But now, just as soon as you can locate one. (If you're lucky enough to have more than one readily available, just pick one; if you don't like that one, find another.) There's no need to feel ashamed or embarrassed. Many wls patients have been in your shoes.
Deal with where you are now. It is what it is. You can't change what has gone before. You can sure seize control of what comes next. There's no need to beat yourself up over how you got here, though I bet you already have done some of that.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and proceed from here.
There are some terrific people here, great support. That said, nothing beats face-to-face, real time support.
Please check in and let us know how you're doing.