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Everytime I turn around I want to eat. I am having a very hard time right now for some reason and I just need to stop but it seems to be getting hard. Then I hear the negative talk saying your not going to make it. Well I am tell the Negative Monster to leave the HELL ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!! I WILL BE SUCCESSFUL ON THIS JOURNEY AND NO ONE WILL STOP ME!!!!!!!!!!! I you are as mad as I am lets jump on it on monday I am starting the Platuae Buster diet I will not be hard but easy and I will keep telling myself that very thing. WE CAN AND WILL REACH OUR GOALS. I have 85 pounds to lose and I AM GOING TO MAKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the original Plateau Diet: # 1 Do this for 10 days # 2 Drink at least 2 Quarts of water per day # 3 You must have 45 grams of proteins, protein supplements, and all your vitamins/mineral supplements each day # 4 You may consume up to 3 oz (not by weight but by measuring cup) of the following high protein foods 5xs a day: Beef Pork Chicken Turkey Lamb Fish Eggs Low Fat Cheese/Cream Cheese Low Fat Cottage Cheese Plan yogurt or artificially sweetened yogurt Low Fat Peanut Butter Beans/Legumes You may also have the following on a limited basis during the 10 days: Sugar Free Popsicles Tea or Coffee artificially sweetened Sugar Free Jello Broths/Boullion soups Crystal Light Drinks 10 days starting Monday if anyone want to join me or just ad a little support would be nice. Lorraine

Oh Lorraine! I feel your pain!!! I'm not supposed to be losing more weight so I won't try the plateau buster diet. But, I will follow with you on trying to stay away from eating! My eating is AWFUL! I keep reaching for food when I know full well that I am NOT hungry! I want to eat all the time! I feel like I did before surgery ... constantly feeling that urge to be eating something, anything! I do NOT want to return to my old ways! So, my goal will be to follow along with you by only eating my scheduled meals/snacks and no more crappy food! I need to eat healthy and only eat what will help fuel my body. No junk! I'm right there with ya!!! Deanna

Thanks for jumping in Deanna. We can and will stop snacking on things that aren't good for us. Lorraine

Lorraine, I do wish you luck!! I sure wish I had the willpower to try this plateau buster!! I keep reading about it and thinking I wish I could follow this and not eat but only the things on the list!! As I just ordered pizza for the kids and a chefs salad for me~~~~the pizza keeps calling my name~~~~~!!!!! I am a failure with this surgery!! I am greatful for the weight I lost,but I guess I thought after I had this surgery it would just fall off and I would be set for life!! It doesn't work that way,I feel soooo bad about myself! I am hungary all the time,too,I try not to eat bad things,I'm horrible about exercising,always finding an excuse ot two!! I am going to be 58 years old in November,I would like to lose at least 40 more pounds!! Our Dr. said you are supposed to be at your goal by 18 months.I have 4 months to go and at the rate I am going ~~I'll never make it! I read on here all the time about people at their goal already,losing too much weight,etc....kind of bums me out sometimes!!! You will do it----Maybe I will try to get up some kind of planned out meals for the 10 days and try alittle harder!! Its NO ones fault---but my own!! Hang in there and good luck!!!

Karen, I just want you to know that you can do it. The one thing I have to hold on to is that at 455 pounds it was very hard to see my way to a normal weight but now I am able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. If it takes another year to get the last bit of weight off that ok as long as we get there. I know you can do it and I am here if you just need to talk about it. I still have 85 pounds to go and the scale just dosent like me right now but you know what I am not going to stop until I reach my goal. Its a new day let do it together. Lorraine

It's a very very hard temptation.... I am not always good about what I eat.. but we have our pouch that we can shrink and can use to help get back on track... I do like you and say I wont get fat again! it helps... don't buy the bad stuff that makes you eat it... My family has to be healthy (most of the time) as well... when I ordered pizza for my son... I ate the toppings off 2 slices.... I also am a snacker... so I snack on beef jerky and stuff like that... I know I will always be a snacker... so I am using protein ... anyway, I am sorry you are having this struggle, and understand... I will say a little prayer that it gets easier for you. Jean

Thanks Jean, Now that the weekend is over I feel pretty good. I didn't do to bad either. I am on my diet plan today and I will post my progress as the week goes by. Thanks Lorraine

I'm right with ya. Some days the snack monster (aka me!!) is terrible. Thankfully at the moment I'm able to balance out the odd days with good eating around it, but I do have my times when it just goes on and on. You are doing absolutely the right thing. Its' when we get into those funks that we have to draw the line and put a stop to it. Only we can do it, no one can do it for us. It is a skippery road that we have been down before. But the good news is that now we have the tool to help us and the knowledge that THIS WORKS. We have come this far, and as you say, we CAN GET TO GOAL (Even you Karen ) It's not easy, but we can take one snack attack at a time. BTY, Karen, did your PCP offer any help for you? It sounds like you could do with his support a bit more, and to see why you are hungry so much? Push for some investigations. How is your husband doing?

Thanks for you words of encouragement and Keep up the good work I notice those number droping on you too. Lorraine

Hi Ruth! I ended up having to cancel my appointment with my DR,need to make another one to see what my problem is! I did get on the scale this morning and am at 189.2.....but that only seems to last for a day!!!! Am really going to try harder, I am trying to get some confidence in,trying to tell my kids---you had these kids --you take care of them!! They make me sooo mad at times Think thats why my stress level is up so! Thats why I lean to food~~ I know how to say NO now to them!! My husband is doing fine...needs to start his smoking pills! But hes on his meds for his ulcer. Thanks so much for your concern with me and him!! Karen