Help...

Wow you guys are doing great!!!! I'm soo happy for each and everyone of you.. I look at pictures and profiles i'm amazed...and genuinely Proud of the Marchers.... One Big Huge problem with me I started off at 241 now i'm at 185. Sounds great? Not I had actually gone down to 182, I kinda got scared of letting go of the old me...I've been very very bad... I've been eating Ice Cream, Hot Chetoess, Potatoe Fries, Pizza, Chinese food... I can stomach everything...Soda...Ohh My God! I've been really stressed because i'm soo stuck and now i have gained some weight... I don't know what i'm doing.. I feel really bad but i'm just sooo hungry!!! Help!!! Words of wizdom and encouragement. Pray for me. Nessa :fariry: 241/185/140

Just step back and take a breath and start all over again today. I just got back from vacation and I didn't do very well last week either. I had chips on several occasions and french fries etc. Of course not in the volume I did pre-surgery but still, they are bad for me. But you know what? This is a change for life and there is no way I can go the rest of my life never eating another chip so the key is to be responsible. Just eat a couple. Put them on your plate. When they are gone, that is it. You are done. No hanging onto a bag like in the past. I think if you really want some ice cream or soda or whatever you need to at least make responsible choices. Eat the low carb stuff they have now. It tastes pretty good and will satisfy your craving for it withouth hopefully adding any pounds. It is scary to find out you can tolerate anything. I think I am the same way. I haven't tried sugar yet, and don't plan to. I don't want to know if I can stomach it because I know it is my weakness. ANyway, I guess I want you to know we all struggle with the same food issues you are and you just need to say today is a new day and start over and try to make good choices. good luck! Nic

Nic....I Stepped back today... I did start all over again today... I haven't gone to the store yet but I'm gonna start buying the low carb stuff I always see it but think in my head uhh i don't need it my body is gonna loose the weight when infact i'm the one sabotaging my weight loss and then complaining that i'm not satisfied w/the results...

Nessa, I have been at 196 for three weeks. I like you have been eating all the wrong foods. However, I have a new outlook on this tool, again. It is hard. We are letting go of the one thing that we knew no matter what would always be there for us. FOOD! You have lost enough weight that equals a small child. You have lost it so fast that you may not have been ready to deal with it mentally. I know that people look at me and think I should have everything figured out. I should be so happy because I have lost so much so fast. They don't understand what I go through when I hit that platue or the feelings that go along with it. That small child that we have lost was after all a part of us. It is hard, as odd as that sounds, to let go of it. We have never let it go before and we spent our lives for years learning how to live with it. Now we just have to learn how to live without it. We have so many harmones flowing through us that are released from the fat being gone that we sometimes become someone that we don't even recognize. You pile all of that on top of what we go through on the average day...Lord, help us! I know that for myself I am still and maybe always will deal with a lot of head hunger. I will hold you up in prayer and you hold me up when you pray for yourself. I know that we have come to far for this to be it. We are shooting for the same goal weight. I know that we can both make it there. Look at what we have already been through. Keep your chin up and your eyes focused on God. The rest will take care of itself with His mighty works. Keep me updated on your future successes, and there will be future successes! I look forward to reading the excitment in those post. Shannon The Irish Lassie 266/196/140

Hello Shannon... I would like to thank you for taking the time to reply to my post...Nothing seems to be more frustrating than to realize i'm eating the wrong foods... and i can stomach them... makes me feel like I should have not gone there in the first place...But I will deffinitley pray for you pray for me and all our fellow marchers!!! We will keep eachother posted for sure!!!!

Hi Vanessa! I know just how you feel. I am finding myself eating so much more food now that it scares me. Not only has my appetite picked up but I am able to eat more volume than I could a few months ago. I was on vacation last week and I also wasn't always making the best food choices. Thankfully, I am still losing but at a slower pace. I really don't want to mess up this opportunity to lose the rest of my weight and keep it off. I am trying to up my exercise and to keep aware of what and how much I am eating. I guess the honeymoon is almost over and the hard work begins.

ooo... yeah girl its scary to find out we can eat these foods and yep soda too for me also. I only have taken some sips though because I know its just bad bad bad heh... ok since we are confessing...over the weekend I ate a little debbie snack. Those peanut butter cookie crunch bars!!! oh yeah I ate both those puppies! and I didnt get sick!!! I felt like a teeeeeny tiiiny bit queasy but it didnt last. BOY have I been wanting them since then! I will not cave in...I will not cave in!!! Its getting hard for sure. I am going back to basics. I just ate and awesome protein bar..the best I have had YET..I mentioned this in another post but want to spred the word because it was soooooo good. Its not heavy and gooey and such as most of them are and doesnt have that cardboardy taste...its Glenny's Slim Carb peanut caramel bar. 12 grams of protein (wouldnt know it though) Its like a light rice crispy treat with PB and Caramel and chocolate its soooo light and crispy it will help with those cravings. I did feel a little queasy but I gobbled it down really fast Im sure thats why!! hehe... I have tried all those foods just about that you stated. Just tastes but I know tastes add up too. I have been stuck on a plateau for about a month and mad exercising but its just not budging. Maybe its because now that we are at 5-6 months we are experimenting a little more and once we are through "experimenting" (right?) haha... we will just get back on track with the knowledge that yep... we can eat that crap but choose not to get the protein in first and foremost the rest will have to wait. I wish ya the best! (((hugs))) Elizabeth M

Isnt it great to know you are not alone! Just like you it seems for me for about the last 3 weeks, I have chosen alllllll the wrong foods. I dont know maybe its a 5 month itch! I have been stuck at the same weight for 3 weeks and it scares me bad!! I too am starting over and God help me! I know what I have to do and I just have to do it! I will keep you in my prayers and keep posting to let us all know how its going. Oh and like you it seems like nothing bothers me. I would like to know if anyone else is like that too. Rhen