alison1979
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Yup, I absorb very little of what I eat. When you research the bypass you read that the absorption rate post op is 30-70% of what you eat, and of course most people end up somewhere in the middle. But there will always be some people at each end of the extreme.
Also, in most patients the intestine adapts over time and so absorption increases, dumping decreases, and the intestine works pretty much as it did pre-op. Hence the golden period of weight loss during the first 6-12 months. For me this hasn't happened, and I've been advised that it most likely never will now, as I'm 3.5 years post op.
So I eat this way purely to maintain weight, any less and I start shrinking again very quickly.
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Thank you for sharing with us shell, because of this do u wish you had never had it done at all? xx