I agree.... you need to figure out why are you wanting to eat... are you substituting it for something else in your life? That said.... I had weight gain myself -- but am working on reversing that. Are you exercising... for me that is a KEY part of keeping my weight down. I actually have gotten a little fanatical on it... it's a good kind of habit now. Early in the morning works best for me -- it's my time..... and I work out mixing up cardio and weights 5 to 6 times a week. That also allows me to have some of the "forbidden" foods. I'm on a choc star kick now. I found that when I cut back on my eating and went back to eating like I should -- lots of fruit, veggies and protein -- along with the exercise the weight started coming off. And my pouch also shrunk back to where it was early on.... so I can't eat as much at a meal. (I'm almost 4 yrs out). It's possible -- have faith, think positive and work your butt off. We have a tool and it's up to us to figure out how to use it for the rest of our lives. Good luck Janie "Our Lives Are Dictated By the Choices We Make"

I would try seeing a therapist to find out the reason behind why you are overeating again, if you are depressed consider medication. Get back to basics like when you first had surgery, exercise, protien, no sugar, etc. Good luck. Dianne

Hi Lori, My husband and I have an exercise DVD called "Walk Away The Pounds" by Leslie Sansone. She has one that has a one mile walk and a two mile walk on it, then she also has a three mile and a four mile walk too if you want more. It's nice because you can do it in your own home, and it's fairly simple to do. My husband does the two mile walk 3 times a week. I used to do the one mile walk, but have been having issues with something called "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" so I don't feel like doing much other than a few things around the house. Actually, doing any extra exercising makes my symptoms much worse. So I've decided when I have a good day, which are few and far between, I'm just going to have a good day. One day when I get my energy back, I'll get back to that and my water areobics. Good luck and if you give it a try, let me know how you like it.

Lara, I'm so sorry to hear about your mother. I lost my father last November. It does get easier to accept the loss as time goes on, but it is a very hard time. There has not been a day since his passing that I've not thought of him, not only once or twice during the day, but numerous times during the day. We live on the other side of my parents double house. We saw him everyday. The start of the warm season was especially hard, because he did a garden and loved to grill. I found myself sitting out in the backyard wondering how we'd get through, but we did. The holiday's were very hard too, he was a very big person on family get togethers...get togethers for any occasion. My dad had numerous health problems, including type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, clogging of the arteries, heart problems. He was in NY to have a procedure done to open the main artery to his heart. It was blocked 90%. They started the procedure, and minutes into the procedure, his artery collapes, and he went in to cardiac arrest. Which in itself is bad, but he had a difibulator, and it was shocking him because of his heart stopping due to the cardiac arrest. The doctors could only stand and wait for that to stop because you are not able to touch someone that has their difibulator going off because of getting shocked themselves. Once that stopped, they started with trying to revive him, but to no avail. Only my mother, one sister, and one brother were with him in NY, we live in PA. They put him on life support to help with the beating of his heart, and when they tried to take him off of it, his heart would not restart on its own, then his kidneys failed, then his liver. They could not save him. They kept him on the lif support until the rest of us drove to NY to be with him. (my parents had 6 kids, all of us but one are married, each with 2 kids) We all drove the 3 1/2-4 hours to get to be with our dad for the last few hours of his life. It was very very traumatic, something we didn't expect, because he had these procedures before, just not on the main artery to his heart. We saw a double rainbow on the way to NY, we thought, that's a good sign. It was of sorts, not for us, but for him, for now, he would not be living in anymore pain or suffereing with his medical problems anymore. He would be at peace. I still miss him so very much, but know I will see him again some day. The support of family and friends is extremely important. Lean on them when you need to....for anything you need them for. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Stacy

Nobody here but us mice... Janice (trying to hide from the 5 lbs trying to creep up on her...YOU DONT KNOW I AM HERE!)