Help from long timers please!

Based on all of your responses, I think I might need to consider a new profession; a VSG dominatrix. Now if only I can figure out a cute outfit. ...

LOL! I am pre-op, but I am also copying and pasting your response for the future when my inner food addicted girl wants to let all my hard work fall apart!

Ummm.... I can help you with the outfit......but cute is not the word that comes to mind......

Hey kairk, this is me we are talking about. A cute dominatrix is about all I can hope for here. :)

What I'm thinking about would not be called cute......Hot, yes. Cute, mmm, not so much! You could pull it off. Trust me!

When and where can we go shopping? :)

Boy, did I pick the right day to get back on OH!!  You have written it for me.  I am 2 1/2 years out and I've gained, BIG time.  At 10 pounds I said to myself, "now that's enough of that you know what to do".  I didn't!  Probably because I didn't come back on here.

OH is what helped me to learn to use my tool and to lose the weight initially.  Then I thought I had it under control.  I had made the lifestyle changes, I knew how to eat right, and it seemed that I was on top of it.  Obviously I wasn't.  

So warning to all newbies - this CAN happen to you.  And you will be just as surprised as I was.  When I was on these boards almost hourly from 2009 -2012 I swore it would NEVER happen to me.  I listened to Frisco's priceless words of stern wisdom, loved Phred's poems and humor, and basked in the encouragement I found from other eaters.

So thanks joeswife, for posting this at just the right time, for me.  

Thanks Elina for your great words of wisdom and the "force" with which they are presented because that is what we need to hear and the way we need to hear it!  

I'm starting today, with my first meal recorded and ready to see on paper how much and what I'm eating.  This should be a real eye opener.

Colleen

Um, yeah, ..... what Elina said.......