Gaining weight!

I am eating like crazy!  Since my last fill when I was stuck I began drinking with my meals to get the food down.  I was embarrassed every time food would get stuck and hated looking like a freak.

How stupid can I be?  Once things would go down easier with a drink, I began eating more and more and more!  Even pop!  I bought it and have it in the house!!!

Now I have gained so much weight that my clothes are tight and I am afraid to go see Dr. B.  I faced it all last night while watching a documentary on obesity!  Now, back to the beginning!

I hope I can get back on track....I know I want to.  I will start again.

My life Chrissy...I live it every day. Do like I do...forge on!!. It may take us longer but we'll get there too. Chin up and forge on...hugz

Hang in there ladies. This is a hard journey and you can get discouraged easily but just keep moving forward.

The lap band unfortunately does not cure our eating addiction. Today for example, I ate two chocolate bars and way too much food. I just got sick a few minutes ago.

No one is perfect, but keep thinking positive and moving forward and you will get there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What sucks is that with me, there is no middle ground to restriction. I either can't eat at all or can eat too much!!! It's hard.

Stay strong!

Thanks for telling it like it is....hard and harder.  I really thought I was going to eat whatever I wanted and lose weight.  Now reality has set in and the pounds are coming back on really fast.

I had lunch and supper on time today and kept the portions small.  I didn't drink anything with my meal either. 

After three hours of Big Medicine and a documentary on obesity I know what I have to do....but why is the ice cream calling my name from the freezer?  LOL

The ice cream will never stop calling your name, in fact my double chocolate chip is screaming my name right now too :P Argh

What I find work bests for me is portion control. Intead of buying a gallon of ice cream (because I will clearly eat it all) I buy small ones (single portion) from the convinience store (one at a time). That keeps me in line because no matter what, if a gallon is in the freezer, i'll eat it all.

Keep up the good work, don't get discouraged - do this for you! There will be up and downs, but  trust that it's worth it!!!!!!

I hear you ladies. You guys know I dump like crazy right? Even knowing that I used to buy pie and ice cream to have it for the boys. Or so I told myself. Reality was I had it because I wanted it in the house and my boys hardly ever ate cookies or pie and ice cream. Once I got that through my head it was easier not to buy it and have it in the house because like you if it was in the house I knew it was in the freezer or fridge and it was calling my name. I felt powerless to resist and ended up devouring it even knowing I would dump big time and be really sick. Thde ONLY cure for that is to not buy it at all. My boys got used to the idea of having apples and oranges and pears in the fridge and don't complain about missing the sweets. Right now I am CRAVING a cookie but there are none here so I will go to the fridge in a minute and get an apple along with a smudge of cottage cheese. Yumm yumm. LOL Willpower is  often not strong enough so you gotta help it along.

Chrissy, all we can do is pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get moving again in the right direction. No sense beating ourselves up or berating ourselves right? I'm there with ya and today's the day -- right this moment - to get back on track.

You can do this ~ you're worth it! (And me too!)

It really is a struggle, people think that if you have the band you will lose all your weight because of it. WRONG  It takes a lot of work. A lot of starting over. It can be discouraging and sometimes I am afraid this isnt going to work. I found the 5daypouchtest.com a good site for helping me get back on track. Again!! lol

Ditto to all of the above. I either gain or I seem to be too tight! I have had 2 months of good restriction in the last year & half. I still love my band, but some of us have it easy, some of us don't have any problems. Sugar will call my name if I eat it some than very rarely. I an a sugarholic. One splurge & it starts screaming my name. I have to keep it out of my system in quantities of less than a cookie. More than that and the craving start. Will I ever be free?? i doubt it.

Hang in there Chrissy!!  You can win this fight!!  The others are right.  Pick yourself up (but leave your guilt behind) and get back at it!!!!  You are not the first to hiccup and will definitely not be the last.  Look at me.  My big plan was to stop drinking pop for 2 weeks and then add stop eating crap until lunch for 2 weeks, then another two weeks adding no crap until supper and so on....  Well, I have never moved beyond the no pop thing,  It has been since the end of Feburary so I am running about 5 months behind schedule!!!

You can do it Chrissy.  Have faith in yourself!!

Love you!
Liz