back again :)

Hello Everyone While I read the boards at least once a month I just dont seem to be able to post regularly. Everyone here is such an inspiration to me, I just feel so disconnected from everyone and everything. I'm down to 175 pounds now, thats 130 pounds gone. While that is good I'm finding myself doing just as suggested in the why we need this board more then ever post. I too am a stress eater. I eat for comfort. I am starting down the path again. I pick and pick and graze and graze, never full never content. I mean i am capable of feeling full i just never eat enough to make me full. thank God I stop when I am full, but still this isnt the reason I got the surgery. I got the surgery so that I could live life like a normal person. I am close(only 40 more pounds until my goal) to my weight loss goal. However I am so far away from my life's goal. I wonder if sometimes a person can mess up so bad in life that there is no way to ever fix it. I am so far away from everything I ever thought I wanted for myself that nothing seems within reach. I know that I suffer from depression, and I am currently on meds but I just dont think that this is depression talking. It's a voice of reason. I really need to get back to the board and start participating. I have never went to a support group, and cant say that I am getting in vitamins and protein. I think I just need to be around people who are like me and understand that this battle with weight is far from over. It is really just beginning. So hopefully I 'm back for good, and I wont just wander way because I'm isolating myself. peace and protein amanda

I am so happy to hear from you. I can tell you that not getting in your vitamins and protein in can cause some of the feelings you are having. The B vitamins are so important to energy and nerve function. I noticed that when I stress eat that I gravitate towards slider foods. I can not eat very much at a time but I seem to eat every hour. I also start to grab more processed carbs and this just left me feeling hungry all the time (which is actualy the stress talking). So, my strategy this last time was to NOT grab a refined carb. I felt the feeling but reached for pure protein. Meat, yogurt, nuts, etc. I found out that it just snuffed the eat-eat-eat feeling I had. Seems simple but it worked. Stay in touch....

Amanda sucess is a process and we will always battle this food addition the difference is we have a tool in place and we now stop and think more about choices as before we never gave much thought to what we were doing. We have not failed weight loss it is a process and a journey we are gonna have good days bad days but the key to sucess is being accountiable to each other and honest with ourselves.. and our mess ups plus share in our success and share in goals and miles stones.. We all need each other .. I often wonder how the men folks are doing as they left us months ago .. I am a emotional eater and food was my drug of choice.. I will be here.. even if no one else will be I promice I am here for the long hull.. With out this board I would have failed along time Ago, We are family here and I will never pass judgement on anyone .. I have a disease and it is call obesity but I HAVE A TOOL to help beat that disease.. welcome back Amanda and everyone who wants to come back .. we need you like you need us Lisa

welcome back to the boards I too am going to make the effort to post more. dee