2 Year Anniversary today!

Today is my two year WLS anniversary. Would be more special if I have lost all my weight. Still have over 100lbs. to go

Congratulation on the 164 pds lost and not gained. You have been doing good to just maintain after 2 years. Keep your chin up! Jane

I had lost up to 180lbs. but have gained about 10 back. Getting back on the band wagon though...Going good so far!

Congratulations on your two yr anniversary with 164 pounds lost. So you still have over 100 pounds to go. You will get there. It ain't over yet. Just hang in there, keep your chin up, and get the support you need to start moving those scales back in the downward direction. You can do it, you have proven that already. No sad faces, only smiley ones . Melissa

YOU CAN do this sweetpea! Congratulations on your 2 year anniversary! I still have about 200 lbs to go! Wanna race????? Smoochies, Arlies

Happy Anniversry to you! I have at least 140 to lose. Keep me motivated to lose weight and I do the same for you!!! Best Wishes, Sonya Sumrall

Congratulations on your past 2 years. Always try to remember your successes and not just your failures. We as humans tend to do that... I am almost 10 mos out and have realized how important it is to measure my food. It helps me keep a better count of what I am putting in my mouth and my calories. I just started doing this this past weekend but whenever I eat with Melissa she has always measures our food. Sometimes I am full, sometimes I am not --but I am ALWAYS satisfied. I have also been faithfully keeping a food journal and keeping tack of the cals I am wracking up. Sometimes I go ahead and have my breakfast, snacks, lunch and after supper snack planned and know how many cals I can have for dinner. If its 5 I know to eat 5 pickles for dinner. The choices are ours what we choose to eat. You can eat all carbs and gain weight or you can eat good foods that are conducive to your weight loss. I do not know about you, I have never met you, but I am a food addict. I love to eat food. I like to taste it, I like to smell it, I am an emotional eater, and I am a binger at times. Its getting a handle on our food obsessions. I believe it is helpful to go back to Dr. Whiteheads seminars and listen to them talk about it. I have been back twice and learned something new every time. You can never have too much information. Try to remember what it was like the first time you attended a seminar when you were preop and you vowed you would lose the weight. I think the self help books we bought have been a great help and I think having a special support person is EXTREMELY important. When choosing one you need someone who you can call anytime of the day (even at 2am if you are binging)... Someone who wont sugar coat your food choices but one that will tell you "Dont eat that crap- do you wanna be a cow again?"--Someone who when you walk up can say "I smell potato chips on your breath" and then kick you smack in the ass. Also, I have found carrying a pocket calorie book in my purse is helpful. If I want to stop at McDonalds and have a pig fest I can look up the calories and quickly change my mind. Mayonaisse is one of my weaknesses and I am learning to wean myself off of mayo. I cant eat anything other than Kraft and it has to be the real deal. That real deal though will pack on some calories all by itself. Mustard is very very low in cals. Examples: KFC Chicken Breast Sandwich = 436 Cals Mashed potatoes with gravy = 87 Cals 1 Drumstick Original Recipe = 155 Cals McDonalds: Big Mac = 563 cals Sausage Biscut = 522 Cals (back in the day I could 2 of these with mayo on them and a regular coke and hashbrown - that totalled 1566 not including the regular coke) Chicken nuggets = 314 Cals 1 regular order of fries = 220 Cals Sausage McMuffin w/Egg = 507 Cals Pizza Hut: 3 Peices of Pepperoni Pizza = 430 Cals Taco Bell: Taco: 186 Cals Burrito Supreme: 467 Cals Bean Burrito: 343 Cals Krystals: Cheese Krystal = 185 Cals Most all rest have websites and you can go and look at what they have as far as nutritional values and see if thats really what you want to be eating. Turnips, squash, brocolli, and asparagus, amberjack, mahimahi, chicken, and shrimp are very healthy foods and very tasty. I dont know your situation. Are you choosing bad foods, are you measuring, are you keeping a journal, are there underlying problems that could be causing weight gain, are you waiting 30 mins before drinking, are you exercising at all or are you sitting on the couch with cheetos (no, wait.. thats me)... Our diets need to consist of protein, protein, protein, then some veggies, and some fruit. This means very limited rice, bread, potatoes, chips, etc... Get one with your sweets. Make everything with splenda. There are some really good things to eat with splenda. My favorite so far is blueberries, FF Milk, Splenda and cinnamon. Virtually no cals. There are some from the milk and blueberries but very little. Your body has no choice but to lose weight if you limit your calorie intake and drink plenty of liquids. Calories must be high enough to keep your body from going in to starvation mode but low enough to keep you losing. I would say to try and stay between 1200-1400 cals per day to lose. I also was having a problem figuring out how many grams = an ounce. I thought I was eating too much when I had 80 grams of something. http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/grams-to-ounces.htm Use this site if you ever have food that is in grams and not ounces. I dont know how many ounces make a pound or how many teaspoons make a cup but maybe I can get all that figured out. Hope this is of some help to you.

Christine, What a blessing you are! Thank you so much for replying to my post in such detail. I've never had a lot of support since my surgery. I will be honest, my food choices are very bad. I tried to eat a McDonald's breakfast this morning, which was 1 sausage patty, scrambled eggs and a biscuit. I ate three bites of each and got that hurting in my stomach of the food getting stuck. Trying to get protein in from eggs, I don't do well at all on scrambled. Then my office gave me a birthday party, and I ate a very small piece of italian cream cake. So I the day is not starting good at all. Confession #2, I have not excersied at all since surgery. The most I get is going to get the mail at work which is about 200 yrds of walking. I just don't have the motivation I need. After working behind a desk all day, going home and catching up on house work, it's 7:00 p.m. or later before I can really sit down and relax. I don't sleep well at all. I stay depressed. (Getting personnel), I and my husband have been having sex problems, when I want it he doesn't, when he wants it I don't. His work schedule is horrible, and we just can't seem to come together. I'm always yelling at him and finding fought in the littlest things. Anywho, I will shut up. Hope I haven't bored you. Just put me in your prayers. Thanks again

Most of the support I get is from all my friends here and Melissa. My sister and mother and pretty much all of my overweight family members do not comment on my weight at all. They will ask how much I have lost and what size I am in but never tell me anything positive about the way I look. All my friends are supportive. The ones who werent, I cut them out of my life. I need to work on me for awhile and not try to tend to them and their issues. They stress me out and make me want to eat (not that I dont do that enough on my own)... My husband is not real supportive. When I try to cook healthy foods he wont eat them and then I feel guilty and like I am starving my family. Sometimes I cant win for losing (literally). He never gives me a compliment. I like alot of sex and intimacy and touching and he doesnt, so I am feeling you on this one. When I was fat he wanted it all the time...now... rarely. My husband is also a work-a-holic and what time he is home he wants to rest. He is refusing to come to the bash in October and I told him that was fine. I would be in a motel room for 2 nights --maybe I will invite someone else... hehe.... j/k... no I am not... yes I am... I always heard weight loss surgery either makes or breaks your marriage. Time will tell... He is extremely jealous and doesnt want me going anywhere and I hate to sit at home on the weekends. Nothing to do but sleep, clean, watch tv and EAT. I want OUT... Since losing weight I have become more social and I like to visit and can wear out my welcome somewhere really fast...just ask Mrs. Taylor... haha. I think he was more comfortable when I was fat and he felt secure.. Now he doesnt know what to think or feel. Are you on any depression medicine? I was on Lexapro for a month. My husband blew his nose one day and I thought I was gonna come undone... I took it for a month and then went off of it. I am better now. Sometimes... But I have refils if I need them. McDonalds breakfast is one of my many weaknesses.. I try to avoid it at all costs. One morning I was on the phone with Melissa for a good 20 minutes or so (who had her calorie book out) trying to figure out what I could get from their that wouldnt kill me in calories. We decided on a bacon, cheese mcmuffin but lo and behold they did not have mcmuffins at this particular McDonalds (in Walmart)... My surgey was in October and by November I was riding my bike on Longleaf trace... We had gotten up to 14 miles (took us 4 hours)... but then the weather turned really cold and I quit. I havent rode my bike since Feb... I have been trying to get in the habit of going with Melissa to work out but we live a good 30 minutes apart. I live N Hattiesburg and when we work out we work out in Petal so it is a pretty good lil haul for me but I vowed to give it twice a week with her. I would like to go twice a week to my Y in Hattiesburg as well but I wont do anything by myself. If you would like we can go together. If you have a bike maybe when the weather starts to cool down we can all go on the trail again. I really enjoyed that--I enjoy going from Jackson Rd towards Sumrall. Very quiet and not many people that way. I used to ride from Jackson Rd to USM and it was 8 miles roundtrip. I would do that when I had friends tailgating. Meet them there on my bike. Visit for awhile and ride back... It was very peaceful and put my mind at ease and I was able to relax my thoughts. We have a walking track right down the road and I am gonna try to walk on it more often but it is just so hot. I know I know I am full of excuses. I work too and once I get home and house picked up from the hurricane of a morning, and dinner cooked, dishes washed, clothes washed--I am tired and want to do NOTHING. Its something I gotta make myself do... even if its just 15-20 mins. Maybe we could get up a little early and get our exercise done. Can you imagine how we would feel starting out the day with exercise. What a great idea. Try to keep a food journal. I bought one of thsoe Chub books from dollar general for $1.00 and I keep track of my foods and caloric intake in it. What I cant find in my book I get from Fitday. If they are different I average. Sometimes I need a second opinion. Gotta go get my kid from Peps Point.. Talk to you all later!

OMG MY hubby is having the same problem he wont touch me with a ten foot pole! Hes even being mean to me, not bad just snappy! Hes makeing me soooooo mad i want him to be happy for me but hes not at all. I cant take his rejection much longer! Well this get better? He was always so sweet before now, i have only lost a little compired to you Christine, I hope this doesnt get worse the more weight i lose. AHHHHH MEN!!!!! DAWN