Weight Loss Surgery: Gaining It All Back
If you found this article because you have had weight loss surgery and you looked great for a year or two and are now gaining it all back again, I am sorry you are reading this article. I for one have written many articles concerning
weight loss and I always hope people will find and read them, but in this case, I am saddened by the perceived failure of your gastric sleeve or laparoscopic gastric bypass. If you are sitting in front of your monitor and are saddened by the short lived results of your triumph and are now wallowing in the realization and fear of becoming fat again, you need to take a deep breath, relax and read what is about to be written with an open mind because what I am writing I do so with your best interest in mind. When I write about what I believe to be the failure of weight loss surgery is what I have seen happen time and time again and it wrenches at my heart when I hear of bariatric patients that are starting to gain all the weight back again. What I write is from my heart and it is not meant to hurt, it is only meant to enlighten and to help anyone struggling with the emotions when the realization that weight loss surgery may have not been the weight loss solution they thought it was going to be.First off I want to say that you cannot have pity for ANY decision you may have made in the past. However you arrived at the point you are at right now… is a moot point. The past is over and the present is here and the future has not been written yet. If you are sitting in front of your computer right now getting freaked out because you had weight loss surgery and now are getting overweight again, you need to step back and think about why that is happening. Before you start reading the next paragraph I want you to think about what the single most important reason why a person that has had weight loss surgery would start putting all the weight back on again. What is the reason you (as a healthy person) is gaining all that weight again?
It really does not matter what you may think the answer is, there really is only one answer. That answer is as simple now as it was before you had the weight loss procedure and that answer is because you are eating more calories than you are burning. It is not really a hard concept to follow because that is what weight loss and weight gain is all about. Before you had weight loss surgery you ate too much and exercised too little and that meant there was a calorie surplus. When there is a surplus there is weight gain. Since 3,500 calories is equal to a pound, that meant that you ate 3,500 calories more than you burned for each and every pound you have gained.
To put it into perspective, if you ate just one apple crumb donut from Dunkin Donuts a day for a year you will have taken in167,900 calories, or almost 48 pounds. If you washed it down with a 20 ounce Coke you would pack on an additional 25 pounds. One donut and one coke a day would pack on 73 pounds to your body in just one year. If you are sitting there thinking that since you had weight loss surgery, you do not eat donuts and you do not drink soda, that is not a relevant argument. The reason I say this is because we are only talking about calories.
What you need to do is start reflecting on what you are eating and how many calories you are taking in and how many calories you are burning each and everyday. The only way you can do that is with The BodyBugg, which is what you see on the arms of all the players on The Biggest Loser and also on Losing it with Jillian. The only difference is that now, it is more important than ever that you take control of the calorie count you experience everyday. If you have had weight loss surgery and are gaining back alot of weight, that is because the weight gain is only a symptom of the fact that you were obese.
If you ever watched Losing It With Jillian or listened to Jillian Michaels
What I am suggesting to you is to take control right here and right now and count your calories eaten and compare them to the results of your personal BodyBugg. If you do not have a BodyBugg…then get one. The stakes are much higher for you now and the failure of your bariatric surgery is even more dire as you once again try to tackle obesity. If you do not take control of what you eat, then you will continue to gain weight. It is all about calories in and calories out and if you can’t keep track of how many calories you are burning, then get a BodyBugg.
The BodyBugg I speak of is the same thing on the arms of the players on The Biggest loser and the show Losing It With Jillian. It is THE state of the art weight loss tool available. If you are floundering in your weight and you have had weight loss surgery, you need to take control of your life and you better do something and you better do it soon. If you you do not make the needed changes just go take a look at how big you used to be and decide if that is where you want to return to in your life.
The BodyBugg is merely a tool and only order it if you are willing to use it because it will not cause you to lose any weight at all. What it will do is give you the needed information and make you accountable to yourself for your actions. That accountability is what you should have achieved before the surgeon convinced you to have weight loss surgery.