It seems you are facing many of the same struggles I am. What before was so simple is becoming harder every day. If you come across something that works for you, please let me know. We need to support one another. Take care.

I know what you mean, I also work with a group that loves to eat. It seems we are celebrating someone's birthday every week. We don't just have cake, we have the big fattening meal to go with it. I try to avoid the eating part as much as possible but it is so hard to just say no. Temptation is lurking around every corner. Take care.

Officially 3 years Post op today! I celebrated by actually going to a support group at the local hospital. I had expectations of hearing about protein shakes and eggs (which there was some). However, to my suprise, they have changed up some things since last year. Tonight, they focused on body image and negative self talk. Something that I needed to hear and try and help myself on. I found that the group meeting was very beneficial and I'm going to try to go to the next one in November.

I am 20 lbs heavier than my lowest weight. So overall, I've lost 80lbs. Regrets at 3 yrs? I think the biggest regret has to do with medical treatment in the hospitals. Especially when you have something going wrong in your body, they don't know how to treat you. Also, chronic problems with constipation and insomnia. Looking at the big picture, the regrets are minimal and I would go through this all over again. I am still off of all my diabetic, kidney,heart,blood pressure medications.
Do I still have things to work on? YES. That's why I consider myself a work in progress.
Hope this 3rd year has brought you all joy!

My day started out pretty good then went to crap. I really had a breakthrough on my ride home today. I thought about what happened a little after lunch today. Here's what happened: a)we celebrate birthdays at work and all of us pitch in money to the birthday fund to buy a giant cake and ice cream for about 20 of us. b)today happened to be one of those days where we celebrated.c)white cake with rasberry filling/chocolate frosting and vanilla/orange sherbert.d)after the happy birthday song, cake was cut.e)I was offered a piece of cake and ice cream and I said no thank you....a piece/ice cream were slid in front of me anyway. f)I ate it without even thinking about it...auto pilot and just shoveled it in. On the ride home I thought about what happened. I'm more important than a piece of cake and ice cream and maybe that's what I need to tell myself each time I'm faced with this type of situation..even when I have folks who are food pushers. Food pushers don't have your best interests at heart. And I thought to myself this is no different than a person who has a serious addiction to drugs or alcohol. You have the one thing that you are addicted to and always someone offering it to ya..or you just fall completly off the wagon and give in to it all. So perhaps if I can just stop for a moment and really think about things instead of auto piloting it that I can stay away from the crap and grazing or snacking. SORRY SO LONG!!!
Anyways, back to my accountability for today:
Breakfast: 2 Morning Star Farms soy sausages
Driving to work: 12 oz coffee with s/f syrup
At work:             24 oz water with s/f ocean spray drink mix cranapple
Lunch:               1 Morning Star Farm brown rice pattie/slice of
                          low fat cheese
THEN...               :(   slice of cake with ice cream
Dinner:               1 cup fat free progresso southwestern vegetable 
                           soup/piece of low fat cheese/3 crackers
Snack:                none

Vitamins:           all taken

Exercise:        close to 18,000 steps on the pedometer/40 minutes on
                     bike/25 situps/15 pushups

As for tomorrow.....tomorrow is another day!

You did a lot better than me.

Breakfast: small slim fast bar

Lunch: small salad w/ ff dressing and grilled chicken
sf/ choc. pudding

Dinner:blt with turkey bacon and lite wheat toast
lowfat pringles
sf/ pop sickle

Snack: popcorn

Exercise: walked 1 mile