good morning "vent" I know exactly how you feel.  I am logging every little thing that goes in my mouth.  I think it is good but really when I get on the scale nothing!!

How is it that the 5 fries or the hamburger with the bun hauled out results in 3-4 pounds.  When I starve myself nothing and when I eat nothing.  It is definitely hard to see people eating anything and everything and not gain an ounce.  I do not regret having RNY at all as I feel amazing at 85 pounds down in 1 year but I do have another min 50 to go and it is hard.

Just keep making the right choices and be positive.

Lisa

Sheri,

I totally get your rant. I gained 3 pounds over the 4th holiday. That means today I am back on the wagon. I find for me if I totally deprive myself that I'm doomed to fail. Also, you have come to the right place here at OH.

We all relate to your pain. Good luck friend.

Robin

Sheri,

I would love to be your friend. Just a computer nerd so don't know how to accept. Consider us friends! Bless you.

R

I may not know anything about what I'm about to say but maybe just maybe your not eating enough calories and your body is storing what calories it's getting not knowing when the next meal is going to come ?  In the past when I was trying to lost weight and I was working out a lot I would platue and when I uped my caloric intake a little ( not a lot) it would help with my loss.  

Like I said I haven't even had surgery so I may not have any idea what im talking about.  

Thanks for sharing your frustration and I wish you the best at over coming that pain !  

Weightloss never came easy after the surgery to me. If I followed the rules, I lost weight like a normal person and not like a normal person that had surgery.

I wish I could say something to make it better..but there is nothing I can do EXCEPT having you realize that THEIR food choices WILL eventually catch up with them in the future.  It may be regain, it may be high cholestrol, it may be cancer or even high blood pressure. They may lack energy (from sugar crashes) or become reactively hypoglycemic or diabetic (because there is only so much **** a pancreas can take).

Steer your course, stay on it...eat healthy food. In the long run, the truly LONG run, you are going to come out ahead.

Promise.

If it makes you feel better I got to 178 after my 1 year mark, started at 283.5 and it took an additional 1.5 years to get to 138, which was my goal at 5'5.  Yes it felt like it would never come.  I have spent the last 11years trying to get to that number and since arriving, staying at it.  It doesn't get any easier, food is always present in our lives, recipes, pictures, picnics, bbq, etc.  But what is more important eating a cupcake or feeling good about your renewed health, slimmer body, ability to do the things you wanted to do.  Every single day forever will be a choice of what to eat or not.  My mantra is if it's good for me to eat it and if it's not is it worth it, i.e, potentially being sick, gaining weight, or being mad at myself.  Your choices.  Sounds fun doesn't it.  It's not.

Here I am 11+ years after.