What Is Going On????

I'm afraid I owe Gail an apology....Sorry Gail... When I was reading the replies to Rhen's post, I must have slipped with the mouse and missed your reply. I asked for suggestions and you had given some and I missed them. I think that you are on the right track. I had already decided to take a closer look at calorie count and I think I'll try your other suggestions too!! Thank you. Mike

Rhen - I had my surgery three days after you. I actually find it comforting to see that others are feeling the same way. Some days it feels like I never had the surgery! Of course, if I look at it realistically, I am not eating at all like I did before. But, after eating basically nothing for so long - it feels like a whole lot. Also, I plan to eat 6 times a day - three small meals and three snacks - so I do feel like I am eating all the time. My doc says that is actually a good plan. I still keep to my no simple carbs/sugar mantra and protein first and try to make the best choices I can. I still get afraid that I have stretched my pouch and ruined everything, but I hope not. I think trying to keep to the basic pouch rules helps me make mostly ok choices. Hang in there - we are not all that far into our new lives - it takes some getting used to! Dee Open RNY 3/04 -130

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! to everyone *****plied. It is great to know that I am not alone and that lots of you feel the same exact way that I do. I will keep fighting! Good Luck fellow Marchers!!! We Can Do It!!!!! Rhen

To think I always thought I was the only one. I'm not unique (!) I'm just like all the other marchers! Each posting here is me. From testing, pushing, and water loading. It took me a few days before I realized that I was craving, hungry, snacking, wanting more and more of all those bad things that got me the surgery in the first place. Once I keyed into me I stopped and went over the good old pouch rules. Now I'm doing ok. Watchng the calories, carbs, fats, you name it! I am not gonna blow this chance. I'm not gonna gain back that 95 pounds I've lost. I AM gonna keep losing til I make my personal goal. I Love how I feel now. I had a odd experience at a grocery store. I froze an didn't know what to say. As I was standing in line behind a heavy person. He left and the skinny young girls behind the register started talking about weight and how they'd never let that happen to them! I was stunned. It made me realize that I hadn't been paroid for all those years those skinny kids probably really were talking about me when I thought they were! But what really freaked me out was when they included ME in their conversation! They mad the comment "I can't imagine how someone over 300 pounds must feel" Then they turned looked at me and said "can you" OH MY GOD! That WAS me. MY mouth opened & shut like a guppy in a fish bowl my eyes were filling up with tears an I was in shock. I paid and walked out. They included me as being unable to understand when what they didnt know was that was me.