Slowly gaining weight

Three years out. 100 lbs. lost. Down to 235lbs. Now I'm back up to 255. I know I'm not eating right. Need food suggestions for work. (ie. portable food), I'm eating too much junk. Cant get enough protein.

Define "portable"?  You mean lots of traveling or take to work and eat there?  If on the road stay away from the fast food joints and eat higher on the "road kill" food scale.  To wit no lower than an IHOP, Denny's or Waffle House. 

If taking to work I'd suggest to the Hormel Completes.  Meat and a side.  Eat the meat leave the bulk of the side alone.  Got a fridge at work you can keep some cheese, protein shakes or left overs in w/o them being pilfered?

 I'm a field tech and on the road everyday. So here's what I do.

I just pack a cooler bag with a boiled egg, some smoked turkey and cheese, almonds, cut up fruit, Tuna with a little low fat mayo, peanut butter on a WASA cracker with sugar free jello is awesome.

Carry a ready to drink protein drink. They can hold u over for a while. And you'll get good quality protein. Just buy a good one. Labrada Lean Body or Muscle Milk Light are great tasting.

I also buy the rotisserie chicken breast and cut it up. It's so much more tender then baking a chicken yourself.

You can do it, u already have. Just re-focus.

Protein, water, limit if not cut out refined carbs.

Give yourself credit for catching this at 20 lbs. It is easier to lose 20 than it is 30, 40...

I would re-focus completely on protein. Set a protein goal for each day, 125-200 and plan your food to help you hit that goal. If you have a hard time with planning food, just pick one day to do it instead of saying "I'm going to plan all my meals for the rest of my life". Success begets success, so start small.

Once you get your protein right, start limiting your carbs. Lastly optimize your calorie intake. It's a lot, but I found it easier to chunk it off in small pieces.

As far as foods go, good suggestions in prior posts. Canned chicken or tuna with packets of miracle whip or even mayo are good if you really have no refrigeration or cooler options.

You can do it!

While I am just beginning I can see this a problem in my future.
Starkist makes a premade Tuna salad in a foil packet (no fridge needed)
The EAS Protein shakes do not need Fridge either

I like the small cooler/lunch bag idea with the ice packs.

I am using the Health Tracker here on Obesity Help.com.  Easy way to track look up foods and accessible anywhere on the web.

Good Luck Keep coming back here!

Apple, banana; sucrose works betterr than glucose of junk food and fast food.  Fat in banana is healthier than greas fat in fast or fried foods.

other alternative: Wendy's chili, baked potato (the potatoe is good for you, its junk we put on it that is bad; i.e. that squirt-style liquid cheese is mostly grease, real cheddar or provolone is low calorie and good dairy fat w/o the lactose)

in a pinch:
Chef-boy-ar-dee ravioli or spagethii-os, ditch the sauce and eat the pasta and meat.
Peanut butter crackers, nature valley honey and oats granola bars
Drink bottled water.

Those are my road warrior tips.  Best of luck; and don't stray too far or you'll end up where you started pre-surgery,...and thats not the failure of the surgery as is was our failure to use the opportunity to relearn and implement it as a way of life,..not a short term miracle diet.
Its a choice and you can do this.

Its all part of becoming that buff stud chick magnet thing,...remember?????

Sorry i didn't clarify. I work on an ambulance, sometimes we never make it out of the truck to eat. (IE. road food).  I guess ill start taking a cooler with me.

A couple more items to mention:

1.  Get your metabolism checked.  Knowing your burn rate helps in the management phase especially as you get farther out and you have to portion control and watch the junk.

2.  Track your intake and be accountable to it. If you have a web enabled PDA, there are many tools out there to make this easy.  If not, the ole notepad and pen works.  Its pretty easy to guestimate total calories after a while of tracking on a day to day basis.  As a precaution, if your metabolism clocks in at lets say 2500 calories a day for your resting metabolic rate, add 600 calories to that if you are moderately active or 800 if you are extremely active with a laborius job.  Then target 200-300 calories below that number when tracking.  Undercompensating on the allowable intake makes up for the hidden calories in processed foods that you may need to consume while on the go.

3.  Finally, if fast food is all you've got, get the burger, throw away the bun.  Heck make it a double.  Eat the grilled chicken on a salad.  Get the burger in a lettuce leaf.  Taco Bells salsa fresca menu is extremely doable as fast food thats semi healthy, although not sure about that shrimp taco, something about fast food and shrimp sounds 'fishy' to me.  There's also chili on most menus and usually you can get beans here and there.  Just stay away from anything deep fried or breaded.  And watch the sauces and condiments.  These can double the caloric intake of a relatively healthy meal.

GOOD LUCK and keep us posted.

I'm a little discouraged. my doctor never mentioned target weight or goal to set for weight loss. I never thought i would see the small side of 300 lbs. from 350,  but I made it all the way to 237. I'm not sure what my ideal weight should be, but I'm happy with anything under 250. Just want to do what I need to do to stay healthy and not put back on pounds.

Before I even opened this I knew you were 2-3 yrs out....thats the point where your body adjusts and learns to start absorbing calories more efficiently again, at the rate of just about 100% of the calories consumed, just as if you were pre-op.  At this point, you've pretty much only got the restriction portion of your tool working, so you need to have used the first 2.5 yrs to get in the good habits that will carry you through the next XX years of your life....at a healthy weight.  It's not too late...just get back to basics with your eating, protein first...no junk...and EXERCISE is key now!  No excuses...do SOMETHING, Every Single Day.  Be it walking for an hour, playing some sort of sport, weight training, etc.  I go to the gym 6 days a week and nearly every time I go I'm inspired by this one guy with the most awesome physique...and guess what, HE HAS NO LEGS...!!

You can do it!!