help i stop losing weight

can anyone give me some ideas how to jump start my weight loss again. i feel so fat and out of shape. i really haven't been eating the right foods, i often eat things that i shouldn't. i want to get back on my old eating habits when i first had the surgery.but it seems as if it's hard trying to get started all over again

Hi Lydia, First , Relax. We all slip from time to time. The Important thing is knowing that we know we have slipped and get back on track. Try to keep good stuff around so if you have to snack, it will be a good snack. Suger free ice pops keep me honest most of the time. I eat all my meals on those little dessert paper plates. For some reason that helps as well. Even if you go back to the menu you were on when you were able to eat solid food. If you want to get back on track you will. Take it a day at a time. I have gotten stuck a week or two at a time without losing weight and it can me maddening! So hide your scale and just work on your eating and excersizing. You have to get out there and move. It gets easier the more you do it! So, Give it a go, Good Luck, know you can do it! Julio

hi julio, thanks for responding to my post, it just seems so hard to get back on tract, i don't want to gain the weight back even though i feel that i have in some way or another, i go to the docs on the 21st of this month to see what's really going on. i pray that i didn't, and that it's just my mind playing tricks on me., for sure i know that i need to get out and walk, and get back into the gym and start firming up and down. i've come too far now to mess up.

Lydia, I hear you loud and clear! I could have written your post! I wish I had the answer, and I wish I would when I eat the wrong stuff, but I don't I'm making a promise to start fresh tomorrow, including walking! Good luck! JA

Lydia- First, given your courage in publicly admitting your issue and your willingness to take the advice of others in overcoming it, you are well on your way to much success. For some of us, the first hint of the return of the old behaviors brought us to realize that we needed to include a mental health component in our efforts to develop a new healthy lifestyle. You just can't underestimate that losing the coping mechanism that food served for many us doesn't create a whole lot of trauma for us. Some of us slip into hyper-regimentation to divert our attention from how badly we miss food, others slip into a mourning period. Still others revert to the old behavior of turning to food for a little comfort. With that in mind, you might want to think about talking to a professional-- it certainly helped me, and I know of many other post-ops who needed to have an impartial third party with whome they could talk through why they were backsliding into old, bad behaviors.