Repeat after me...I will NOT eat sugar...
For the first time since surgery I am really struggling. I have discovered that I can eat a whole lot more than I think I should be eating and the weight loss has come to a complete stop. I'm not eating sugar, but I am eating larger portions of everything else. Everyday I tell myself this is a new day and I will be more aware of what I put in my mouth, and then that whole resolve flies out the window when someone brings in little pretzel nuggets with cheese sauce. And I promised Liz I would be good. Sorry Liz, I'm really trying. I seriously need to get to a support group meeting. Haven't been able to get there for the last two months. Hang in there Heather, we'll get back on track.
I feel you pain. I have my friend for this month and I confessed at the Barix Support meeting last night that I can tolerate the sugar. Well Shauna Doble the group leader let me have it. I was pretty upset at first because sugar is not my weakness I do not actively seek it out but since I know I can tolerate sugar I feel like I eat it all the time even though I have only had it once. I am repeating after you I will not eat Sugar no matter what!!
-Shilpa
People comment on my over 100 pound weight loss and attribute it to my WILLpower, but it is my WANTpower: I WANT to be thin and healthy more than anything else!
Too funny - not really. I was sitting here thinking how much I would like something sweet and checked in on OH. So now I am going to get a half grapefruit instead of the candy that was calling my name. I will have to deal with this sweet thing on Sat. night because my friends have an annual party with loads of naughty, delicious stuff. Last year I did not have trouble but since then I've had small tastes of stuff with sugar and no problem. Like you, Heather, I seem less able to tolerate too much sugar free stuff. I did not torture myself to get a nice tight tummy and then keep testing myself to see how much I can eat.
Please lend me your zapper.
Arlene
I hope you do better, and here's to "restarting the sugar clock" and you will do fine.
I am like you - carbs were more of a demon than sugar for me pre op. However post op...I have nibbled on sugar, lately more so than in the past 14 mos. Yes I had 2 cookies over the course of yesterday while baking. Granted, 2 years ago that would have been, oh, I don't know...two DOZEN cookies....but last year it was none and I was planning on this year being the same.
Hang in there....keep chanting and have people look at you funny....perhaps them looking at you funny for that is better than them seeing you unzip your pants in the hallway or feel yourself up in your new bras??
Pam
