If you're working out a long with all this snacking, it could be muscle gaining, not fat. 

and eating small, healthy snacks often during the day is actually better for you than large meals. 

How does your clothes fit? That's way more important cause muscle does way more than and fat. Also a biggey you didn't mention is what are you drinking? Pop, juices, and alcohols can be quite sneaky!

@calisartangel16@xanga - I only drink water and juices. I went on a crash in high school (i'm in my late 20's now) because I was ingesting WAY too much caffeine. My doc said if I didn't stop drinking so much Dew I'd kill my kidneys by 30. He had me so scared I cold turkey'ed both pop and caffeine. So I really do drink more juice though. I've heard there is a lot more sugar than they want you to know in those things, but I thought we were buying healthy. We buy stuff like Bolthouse Farms Juices :Green & Blue Goodness, Mango Mania, Berry  & C-Boost. We've also bought Naked line of high protein drinks as well as the their green machine and Odwalla's Origninal superfood. Most of them are pretty good, especially if you make smoothies out of them with some ice and yogurt. 

I guess I could eat more fruit and veggies and cut out the carbs. That is all I can figure is going on, too many carbs. After the bypass, it's really hard for your body to process the carbs. That's apparently why the take you off of them. I don't know, I'm no nutritionist. It's hard to get much done around the house with a toddler but there's one thing for sure...he keeps you on your toes! 

and I guess I find not eating the easiest way to lose weight...but that probably doesn't help you.

I would start calorie counting.  Little bites here and there can really add up.

It is healthier to eat several small meals a day, but it isn't healthy to snack on high calorie foods. I bet you are eating way more than you think you are. Unfortunately it all adds up :S

When was your gastric bypass and how much are you really snacking? Have you lost sizes, instead of weight? Are you picking up food 4-6x a day, or are you picking up food 10-12x a day? With a gastric bypass, it's often difficult to eat whole meals, so many people turn over to the snacking method. This is also used by many diabetics in order to keep their blood sugar stabilized over the long day. But, the problem comes with how MANY times you are putting your hand in the proverbial cookie jar. If you're snacking 4-6x a day, like you should be when you're trying to lose weight, and you're still gaining, I would see your doctor about augmenting a program. If you're snacking much more than that 8-12x a day, it could be that you're putting in so much "stuff" (carbs, fat, simple sugars, etc) that your body isn't able to handle it. Especially with bypass patients, your food isn't broken down as much as it should be, and absorption changes after the procedure. If you're snacking quite often, you're defeating the purpose of going through invasive surgery. Yes, you feel "empty" enough to eat again, but that doesn't mean you should.

In spite of all the tips and tricks (they DO help) the basic truth is this. You gain weight when you take in more calories than you body uses to run. That's it, no matter what form the calories come in or whether or not they come in a 4000 calorie binge or 200 calories at a time snacking all day. If you eat 3000 calories of apples or 3000 calories of brown rice...the extra calories become extra weight.

There are a host of other health issues involved in why you should eat apples, and brown rice over cheese doodles and little debbie, but as far as weight gain, extra calories become extra weight.

There are some really good books out there that can teach you about how your body signals "full' to help you from feeling hungry all the time, which might help you stop snacking and start eating in a way that is more satisfying.

100 diet myths that keep us fat
and the skinny on losing weight without feeling hungry, may help you out

A 60 lb weight gain over a year is quite a bit, that translates to 5lbs per month. Here are my suggestions. (I am an expert and author in the weight loss arena, and personally have lost 135 lbs which I've kept off for 6 years. I know my stuff.)

Physical things to check:

1. Are you drinking enough water? Good, clean ALKALINIZED water? You won't find this type of water from your tap nor most bottled brands. The reason water is involved with weight is threefold...first, all fat is lost through the urine, so you need to ensure that you are urinating enough for the fat to pass from the body. Secondly, often the body mistakes the thirst signal with the hunger signal, and chances are you are sometimes eating when you should be having water. (this happens to us all.) So it is not just cliche to say if you're hungry to drink a glass of water and then wait 20 mins before eating to see if you were really hungry or not. And lastly, because of our modern lifestyles (even if you are trying to be healthy) chances are you are somewhat to highly toxic, and the body must store these toxins in fat cells. If there are more toxins than fat cells, the body must build more fat cells to store the toxins which it removes from the blood. Alkalinized water will "wash" the toxins away, removing the body's need for the extra fat cells. (fyi, bottled and tap water are actually toxins themselves, and so don't help with this problem.)

2. Are you getting a full, restful night's sleep every night? Chances are you aren't, since 75% of North Americans are considered sleep deprived. How does this tie into weight? When you regularly and repeatedly get down into the deep levels of sleep, your body is able to produce, deliver and monitor two very important hormones related to weight, leptin and gherlin. These two hormones regulate the appetite, and the fat/muscle ratio on the body. A sleep deprived body cannot properly regulate these hormones, and weight challenges result. Also, if you are tired, your body is going to be needing more energy, and the easiest way to get that is to eat more, as food = energy. Your appetite will decrease once you are getting the healthy amount and type of sleep.

Pschological things to check.

1. I am assuming that if you've gone so far as to have gastric bypass surgery, that you were overweight for quite a while before the surgery. This means that you identified yourself as an overweight person, meaning that your mind's eye view of yourself is that of an overweight person. One thing that dieting and surgery fail to address is updating the mind's eye view of the person to match their new body. Why is this important? Because the brain/mind regulate everything, EVERYTHING that goes on in the body, and weight is no exception to this. So regardless of how much weight you lose through dieting/surgery, if your brain still "sees" you as fat, it will direct you to do things that will support this vision. Likewise, if your brain sees you as slim, it will direct you to do things to support that vision. The external view of yourself is 99% less important than your internal view of yourself. How do you know what your internal view is? Close your eyes and picture yourself, see a mental picture. What weight are you in the picture? Guaranteed that whatever weight you see in this picture, you are or will become that weight. I suspect this is a big part of your challenge and one that simply must be addressed. (Read my book "Why Are You Weighting? It's Not The Food That's Making You Fat!" it will explain all this and show you how to easily change your inner view, even before the outer view changes.)

2. You have "fat programming" rather than slim programming. This is somewhat tied into item #1 above. Just like a computer has programming, so do humans. And just like a computer that doesn't have Powerpoint on it will never be able to open a PowerPoint document no matter how  hard you try or how badly you want it, the same is true for your weight programming. If you aren't programmed for slimness, try all you want you will always struggle to get and/or stay slim. Changing your programming is easy if you are properly directed. Again my book goes into all this very easily and with great direction.

I wish you all the best on your journey. You can get the weight off once and for all, but traditional methods won't fully help you. I hope to hear from you!

Stacey

@cutesycharm@xanga - Wow, I had no idea trail mix (nuts and fruit) was considered junk food. 
I was told by the nurtitionist to eat it to get protein as it has 12 grams of protien per serving and I have to get 60 per day at least. Pretzels were like the healthiest snack out of carbs I was told. and rice cakes are like 1g sugar and 8 carbs. How is that junk food? Not to mention the need for dairy (ie cheese) in every persons diet.

@whyareyouweighting - ahahahaha. ALKALIZED water is the biggest scam in history. 

@therantingprophet@revelife - well obviously what your nutritionist told you isn't working anymore, if you've been gaining. If you want carbs, eat some carrots or other veggies as opposed to rice crackers and pretzels. Veggies have all the carbs u need! And exercising 2x a week isn't enough, and your excuse about it being 'impossible' to exercise more than that is an excuse. Do you have time to watch tv? Do squats or sit ups. Take stairs instead of elevator, walk to the corner store, things like that all add up:)