Would one candy bar be bad?

Julie, I agree one hundred percent with what you said. Food is addictive as alcohol and knowing that I can deal with not doing the stuff that will lead me to destruction

Oh, that slippery slope back into bad habits!  It is very, very easy to slip back into our old habits.  For most of us those habits got us through decades up emotional ups and downs.  I know that I have to be very vigilant or I can undo the surgery.

Owning up to your slip ups is definitely the first step to correcting the problem.  Good luck getting back on the straight and narrow.  Welcome back to the old "wagon".

Thank you very much...that slip up could have caused my weight lose to become a huge gain

Not only old bad habits, but the surgery can create new ones.  I have to be very diligent about what I bring in my house....If I'm buying it and think "maybe not a good idea"....I don't, because it never ever is.  I've tossed out a lot of peanut butter too just because I like to have it around, but when it gets to be a problem, I toss it out BEFORE it gets to be a habit again.

Part of recovery of anything is learning how to get through lifes ups and downs with new habits, but the surgery is not a magic switch-it doesn't change everything all at once-just gives us the tools we need to change over time.

Big hug to you girl.

Deb thank you for the hug...I am going back to that policy if it can cause me to relapse I am not going to mess with it.........

I don't want to know that I don't dump on sugar. If I found out that I didn't, hell, I'd be eating the brownies we bought at Perkins Family Restaurant in Stillcity last weekend!

Like Fleemore, I'm self pay..still writing checks...and I'm bound and determined this weight will never come back, so I behave myself!

Sweetie that has been the worst part of my surgery I knew I would dump so I tried the sugar..I was so upset that I didnt dump that I cried...
I know now that I am the one in control when I walk away...and that is what I am doing....

Good for you Pattye...just walk away and I think we need to all look at that stuff, especially for me, the candy like it's poison.  It's the poison that got me where I was before.  I could do so much damage just waiting in the line at Walmart or the grocery store just looking at the candy bars.  I never just left the store with one either...it was several.  So far I'm not tempted but I'm only 6 months out now.  Lets make a decision together to not let these "candy bars" or any other sugar get to us and poison our minds and bodies.  Thanks for your honesty and giving us an insite what to look for and beware of!!!  We're bigger than this thing...obesity and where it comes from...hang in there girlfriend!!!