WDY eat Tuesday

I hope it is okay if I start this today. Cheese, cottage, lowfat (1-2% fat) 327 5 12 56 Beef steak, broiled or baked, lean only eaten 231 9 0 34 Milk, calcium fortified, cow's, fluid, skim or nonfat 259 1 36 25 Popcorn, popped in oil, lowfat, low sodium 130 2 24 4 Totals 947c 17f 72 c 119p So this is my day. I wanted all sorts of other things, but I stuck with this. These are the fitday numbers and I don't know if they will come out right or not. the last line is the breakdown. I am surprised how many carbs

Thanks for starting this post Holly - yesterday was manic for me so didn't get to log my food. I have changed the foods I'm eating - less carbs and eating more frequently, but I feel like I am eating ALL the time - not something that feels comfortable in my body. I'll keep tryign this to see how my body (and the scales!) respond. I don't as a rule like to usually focus too much on food - even if it is for a 'good' reason, as it 'feeds' (scuse the pun) my addiction to food which is what I am workign at. Food has taken too large a part of my life in the past - I am working towards it not having so much influence. Anyway, I am having lots of cottage cheese with fruit or veg, cutting out the cookies and chips and started having protein shakes again. I got sick of chicken for a while, but will drag that out again. I average at 1000 cals per day according to fitday, protein too low, so am looking at increasing that.

Here is my day...not great but I've certaintly done worse... B: Coffee / PB w/banana S: None L: 1/2 turkey sand w/ 1/2 bag of chips S: beef jerky D: 1/2 turkey patty LNS: 1 piece sugar free pinapple pie & 6 pita chips w/hummus totals: cal: 1080 carbs: 114 fat: 41 prot: 63 I don't have the same problem you ladies have...I have to stop myself from eating way too many calories...I would eat around 2000 if it was up to me. I struggle to get them down...but my biggest problem is not the amount I eat, it's just what I choose to eat...one high fat/high carb. meal and the day is way blown. So I am working on making better choices.

It is a struggle for me not to eat more food. I have been thinking that the pouch will do the work for me and it hasn't. Well in the beginning it did, but as I added other foods, and didn't dump or have a fussy pouch, I just ate what I felt like eating. It has just been recently that I have figured out that while the surgery is great for initial weight loss, it will not make me lose more, and if I am going to get to goal, or maintain the weight that I have lost, it is all up to me after all. This is a huge confession on my part, I smiled and nodded when everyone told me that the surgery was only a tool in my weight loss toolbox. I just thought that because I lost so much so quickly that it would continue and I would not have to actually 'diet' . I hope that I do not give the impression that eating less is easy for me. It most definately is not. I could easily eat 2000 calories, the pouch defying food like white carbs call my name and sometimes yell my name at night and it is really really hard not to answer.

I'm right there with you...I did not think I would really have to "diet"...up and until my 1 year anniversary I NEVER had a plateau...now I've been on one for 4 months...I want to think that if I keep on doing what I'm doing that all of a sudden those last 10lbs will go away...but that is not realistic...I do have to watch what I choose to put in my mouth etc... What I have learned that it is not "calories in versus calories out"...our bodies are not working that way anymore, if they ever were. Trish

I agree with the comment re calories in v cals out...it seems that since wls my body doens' tfollow dieting 'rules' anymore. Sometimes, I eat more, I lose, then next time I have to eat less to lose. Everything seems topsy turvey now and it's a case of finding what is going to work this time.