Some one emailed this to me this morning, Its kind of a tongue in cheek thing but for a lot of people at least a couple of these will ring true. I was told it came from OH in the first place so you might have already seen it...but in case you didn't..... How to Fail With the RNY It really takes a concerted effort to literally stop your weight loss and gain it all back, but somehow people manage to do it. You have received a gift of life and health so don't take it all for granted or think that weight loss and long term maintenance are permanent without your participation. Print this out, stick it to the front of your refrigerator, and refer to it often. Sure it's tongue in cheek and a bit over the top, but there are parts that will ring true for every one of us!" 1. Assume you are different, and what works for the successful people doesn't or won't work for you. 2. Make excuses. For everything. Tell everyone you know how your predicament isn't your fault. 3. Don't exercise. You are a busy person and don't have time. Besides, you hate it. 4. End every excuse-filled sentence with "I must be doing something right, I'm still losing weight." 5. Test the limits of your surgery. Overeat. Graze. 6. Eat sugar. You can get used to a little nausea. 7. Eat bread, rice, potatoes & pasta. You shouldn't have to deprive yourself of anything. 8. Fall for the packaging and advertising gimmicks. "All natural" means it's good for me, right? 9. Whine. Think and talk about all the things you have to give up. Dwell on them. 10. Take the cheapest vitamins you can find. Stop taking them after a year because you are tired of the routine. 11. Don't follow any advice or directions from your surgeon or anyone else. You know best. 12. Eat that holiday candy. It would be a shame for it to go to waste. 13. Don't use your pouch. Try diet pills instead. 14. Forget protein. It tastes bad. Bring on the sandwiches! 15. Don't educate yourself. Just follow your doctors blindly. 16. Drink soda. Preferably with meals. It's just too hard not to drink something for that half hour three times a day. 17. Eat everything offered to you when visiting others. You wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. 18. Drink alcohol. Daily. You have earned the right to enjoy yourself. 19. Be content with losing 50% of your excess. Losing the other 50% is too much work, and you didn't do this to have to be on a diet for the rest of your life. 20) my pouch stretched out and allowed me to eat more and more over time, thus causing me to regain 21) my stomach stretched out, and all of the food I ate dumped directly into my intestines causing me to be hungry all the time. I ate to satisfy this natural hunger, because it was a real biological need, and I regained weight. 22)I had a staple line disruption and/or a fistula developed between my old stomach and my pouch...this basically undid my RNY. 23) the dumping I expected to have after the RNY, never appeared, or it disappeared in a few months after my body adjusted to the surgery. Thus limiting the already negotiable effects that dumping was suppose to have in changing my behavior.

Great post! I still struggle with the food demon too. A suggestion I heard that has been very helpful to me is to also ask myself if I am thirsty when I open the fridge. I have noticed that my body doesn't know the difference sometimes and fluid does the trick with the hunger pangs.

You look great.

You are so beautiful!!!! You look great!!! I have to have plastic surgery on my eye at the begining of the year and then I will post some of me. I always think of Donkey off of Shriek, "We're sexy, baby!!!"

I use to throw up almost after every meal. Come to find out, it was my gallbladder! Once it was out I quit throwing up. Now if I eat something really greasy, I better watch out! I still can't eat most meats. I did eat some bacon the other day and it did not bother me. I can also eat turkey or chicken otherwise, like you said....YUCK! So, I just drink 90-100 g of protein a day. At Christmas I made cookies for my kids. YES, I did eat some! No dumping. I ate in moderation on Thanksgiving and Christmas, the desserts, and then got back on the wagon. It was so much easier than I thought it would be! My husband wanted to buy me some sugar free cookies that he thought were delicious, but I told him I eat desserts only on special occasions. I am afraid I could abuse those just as well as the others. I don't want to have desserts all the time because those are my big down fall. Once I start eating, I keep eating and eating and eating them. So, no more. I control when I eat them this way. Sweets don't overtake my control. Later, Elisa