help maintaining before surgery!!!

Hi all, I am looking for some help on maintaining or losing some weight before I gain anymore. I don't want to gain anymore. I am hoping to have lap rny in January and was told if I gain more then 5 pounds I will not be able to get it. I also am in the process of quiting smoking which will be extra hard to not gain weight. ANY HELP PLEASE!!!!

hey coutney, what seemed to work for me was throwing away food. I figured I only going to be able to have a couple bites post op so I just started to not finish anything.. I did lose weight.. I didn't want to gain any.. I also started eating sugar free treats.. My Dr. has a wonderful program and we had to meet with the nutritionist 2 times and keep journals. It really helped and as you get closer to your date I found I didn't even care about food.. I didn't even have a "my last meal" I just ate to get by. It will be a little harder around the holidays though. But you can do it. I also didn't want any complications so I figured the more weight I could lose befor the surgery the better outcome I would have.. I hope this was helpful.. Good Luck ! tammy