Since you've had weight loss surgery, are your worries about gaining weight over? After weight loss surgery, is it impossible to regain weight? Unfortunately, weight loss surgery is not a cure for weight and food issues. The surgery does not do all of the work. It allows you to replace heavy habits with healthy habits to lose weight and maintain weight loss. Weight loss surgery is a tool. You can regain weight. Surgery is a tool we choose to use. If you want to lose, choose to use your surgery.

If you've gained weight after your surgery, medical conditions and anatomic surgical issues need to be addressed by a physician and necessary blood tests. Regular follow-ups throughout a post-operative patient's life are important. By regular physical exams, follow-ups, and blood tests potential problems can be detected early and treated.

When health and medical issues have been eliminated as a cause for weight regain, the next step is to focus on the behavioral changes required for long-term weight loss success. Problems with a surgical procedure are usually not the cause for weight regain. Common factors in regaining weight are that we return to old habits that made us heavy and candidates for weight loss surgery.

If you've regained weight, it is common to feel as though we have failed. After all, we've failed to lose weight and keep it off each time we've tried. So many times during our pre-dieting career, we felt like failures each time the diets did not work long-term. You are not a failure!! It is common for weight regain after weight loss surgery. You are not alone. The great aspect of weight loss surgery is that if you have regained weight, you can lose it. Your tool is with you to help in losing regained weight.

If you are concerned about weight regain or have gained weight that you'd like to lose, here are some suggestions to get back on track and stay on track:

* Check your protein intake each day. Are you eating enough protein? Protein provides satiation and is important for maximizing weight loss. At meals, eat protein first. One suggestion is to eat two bites of dense protein for every one bite of vegetable, fruit or complex carbohydrate serving.

* Are you drinking a minimum of 64 ounces (8 glasses) of water each day? Water is water. You can flavor your water with the powdered flavorings without carbonation. Water is not soda, tea, coffee, or juice. Water is a key component of getting back on track. Many times we interpret thirst as hunger. Make sure you are continually hydrating throughout the day. Sip your water throughout the day to maximize the hydration to your body.

* How is your activity level? Are you exercising regularly? Have you decreased the frequency and/or intensity of your exercise? It is also the small activities. Take the stairs instead of the escalator, select a parking place furthest from the store, take a walk instead of sitting during your work breaks. If you want to lose it, you must move it.

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