Can't be done without exercise

Okay, I put a post telling you all I went for my 2 year followup from my RNY and how I gained 30 pounds in the past year. I was starting completely over with the basics. It worked. I have lost 16 pounds in the past two weeks.

Yesterday morning when I weighed, I had gained a 1/2 pound. This morning I gained a pound. I didn't eat any different, but I didn't officially exercise those two days either. I did exercise during the week on my lunch breaks. Unlike the honeymoon period that we all enjoy the first several months after our surgeries, I really wish I would have followed my doctors orders more strictly so it wouldn't be so tough now.

Granted, I'm happy, I'm very healthy, I just need to push myself a little bit harder.

You guys have supported me whether you have posted directly to me or not. I am supported when your responses to other people and for that, I am truly thankful.

I was wondering whether I should respond to the title of your post.  Although I know that I shouldd do exercise, most of my exercise consists of changing channels with the TV remote.  Yep, I'm still a couch potato.  BUT, I know from experience that I can lose weight now without exercise.  I think the primary reason for that is that my total calorie intake is not enough to gain weight at my current weigh of 340 lbs.  I did lose 50 lbs from Jan thru May by following a strict carbohydrate addict's diet using the book, Food Addiction--The Body Knows, as well as using the Beck Diet Solution and carefully monitoring what I was eating.  I stayed on a 1,600 to 1,800 cal diet.  I tried to follow a 1,400 cal diet but that was simply not enough for me.

I started eating addicting foods by the end of May.  I had finished all of the daily exercises in the Beck Diet Solution and I simply didn't know where to go from there.  Personally, I need to be told what to do.  Somehow this is a problem associated with my manic-depression and is the prime reason I've been on disability since July of 1992.  I worked in an office as a caseworker and I lost the ability to prioritize my work.  Anyway, I found that I didn't gain any weight over the summer.  I was sure that I must have because I was eating junk during that time ( although it was in relatively small portions).  I found that I still lost weigh over the summer.

HOWEVER, I'm still a food addict and junk food junkie and I am still in the throes of my addictions.  I haven't had a single day without addictive foods since May.  And, I know I can be successful if I can just get past that first day.  Back when I was abstinate from my addictive foods this year, I didn't even think about having them.  That's a real freedom that I read about many post-ops experiencing.

I spoke to my counselor and a priest and was told to treat this coming Sunday as the first day of my addictive free life.  Part of me wants to jump right in now, but I'll go back over the prep work in the Beck Diet Solution--it prepares you to successfully follow a diet.

Although I've lost 230 lbs due to the RNYs, I know that I can lose more.  I still have difficulty walking and must use a cane or rollator ( a walker on wheels with a built-in seat).  I can't walk far with either one.  I had to give up going to the pool due to a skin condition.  I just have to get past the excuses and do any type of exercise.  Like, I can follow my own suggestion and just "mark time--march in place."  I can lift small weights.  And, I even have a portable gym with elastic bands that I can use as something other than a tree horse.

I too thank the men here for their support.  Happiness has been elusive for me ever since I've been treated for manic-depression.  I usually feel OK but happy is something different.  I know that I was happy when I was abstinate from my addictive foods.  Now, that should be incentive enough -- even without weight loss-- to get back on the food addict's diet.  The weigh loss was a nice bonus.  I think I'll Save this thread and read it as a good motivational piece for myself.  Thanks, Bob

I'm pretty sure we all know what we need to do to lose or maintain weight.  The Men's Board is a place to get your butt kicked into shape.  We don't except excuses in here, we hold each other accountable, that's what makes this place work.

If you get lax about exercising you gain weight.

Good luck to all and if you need a swift kick you can find it on the Men's Forum.