What'cha eating today....Tuesday edition

Yep, we're eating, but I just got home (well, about 8:45, actually) and haven't had time to post. Rhonda started a thread for today, so you can post it there if you haven't already. Here's my totals. Bkfst:   Activia, Kashi go lean crunch, 25 craisins and flax seeds S          Whole milk latte L        Albondigas S         Apple Afternoon    2% latte Dinner      Lean Cuisine Flat bread sandwich.....could only eat half, there's just way too much                         bread S         1/2 cup albondigas Total Calories:   1391   Fat  38 grams  Carbs:  160  Protein:  109 I'll check in with everyone tomorrow and promise to get back on schedule by the evening. Sleep well, my friends

I had 5 hmr 800 shakes.  No food for the first time in my whole life.  I started them monday, but I actually had food that day.  2 handfuls of trail mix. (Absentminded) GOD, I'M HUNGRY!!! but I'm not gonna eat...  Going to get some water...   

Congratulations Will for having such a positive attitude and beginning on your journey to be healthier. The first few days are the toughest, but hang in there. We're behind you all the way!!! See? Already you recognize the absentminded eating we do on a daily basis. You're going to learn a lot about yourself in the next year. Take care

Today is day  3 of my 5day pouch test. I get to eat soft proteins for the first time since I started. I weighed 170 on Monday and today I weigh 164.5. I managed to do liquids and sf pudding and as many prot shakes as I could for the first 2 days.

Today for breakfast I had 3oz canned chicken and a hard boiled egg, lunch was 1/4 cup cottage cheese, 2 thin slices of turkey and the egg of course a billion gallons of water dunno about dinner. as you see I still struggle with my weight 7 years out. Life just happens. We learn from our mistakes. I am getting back on track with the 5dpt, it purges your body of the carbs and I have not wanted any. Yeah it is hard, but trying to squeeze my size 14 arse in size 10 jeans is even harder. I gave up my daily addiction to coke....I had one on Sunday. The last time I went this long without one was in 2001 following my surgery. I am not looking for a specific number on the scale. The 130s would be great. I will settle for 140. I dont want to lose all my curves. Sometimes we get comfortable with our surgery and think that one bite wont hurt. Well one bite has jumped up and bit me in the arse. I once said I would never re-gain anything........well life happens, stress, divorce, teenagers, work, depression,  healt issues,loss of a co-worker (not bi polar betty)......please listen to me, it can happen........we are not protected from our weight creeping back on. I have not had follow ups or support....I think if I had been able to take advantage of both of them my weight may not have come back on or I may have had better control of it and stopped it early.  Some people on here dont like to hear about me and my struggles, they feel I belong on the grads board or the main board.......they feel this board is for newbies, some people think it cant happen to them, I ruined my pouch, some people are in denial or they are in the honeymoon phase and tend to have the ****y  attitude  of   " i wont be like her I have control of myself and my pouch" . Thats fine you can feel that way I understand, but I feel that we all need to hear from people in various stages in their weight loss journey, it is good to hear how this works for that one and this doesnt. We are all here to help each other and not shun them. I have already started my plastic surgery journey as well. I have been though most of what all of you are going through. My hair still falls out, my tail bone hurts sometimes, I get constipated, I dump.  I guess this 5dpt has opened my eyes and I want to express to everyone.....regardless of your type of surgery and how far out you are.......follow your rules, listen to your dr, pay attention to your body. We can regain the weight.......stop it early or prevent it all together.......... take care, tammy

Well said Tammy!  Hope your 5dpt works wonderfully!

Well Tammy, I think you're very brave for coming here and telling us the TRUTH!!!  It's true that the farther out we get the more we take our tool for granted, it's true that if we don't pay attention to the rules the weight can and does return, and it's true that we must, must, have follow-up care forever. Thank you for being honest and up front about your struggles.  We must have our heads in the sand to think we can't learn valuable information from someone as far out from surgery as you. Well, dang, if you don't belong here, than as a grad myself, I guess I don't belong here either!!! So, here's to us....proud and honest Arkansans ! I happy that you're doing the 5dpt, especially giving up soda. Never been much of a fan myself, but there are other things I have let sneak back into my diet. Today one of the girls brought in chocolate chip cookies. One won't bother me....it didn't bother me, it just tasted like do-do!  Guess I've lost the taste for that.....thank God! Please keep on coming here, I miss your face