Help! I need to get back on track!!!

Hello all. I have come to this webiste for help too. I am 18months post-op and have started gaining weight slowly over the past several months. I am in agony about it! However, I continue to self destruct and eat whatever I want. I am feelin lost and out of control. I need a buddy to help me get back on track. I am truely hungry much of the day. I eat to feed my stomach but also every other emotion I have. I just can't get past my love for eating. I am grazing all day long and eating lots of carbs and sugar. I dump several times a week and always feel gross. Anyone out there willing to be my buddy and coach me back to success? Jenny

Hi Jenny! I'm in the same boat as you are! My post is just below yours and it sounds like we are struggling with the same things. I would love to be your buddy and we can both coach each other. Please feel free to e-mail me: [email protected] Maru

Jenny, just wanted you to know that I understand and that I'm here for support anytime! You can email me anytime! Hang in there and Hugs~ Tracy B 328/152 5'9

We are all in the same boat. I just finished reading the South Beach Diet book. I can honestly say, this is the FIRST time in my life that I have actually read a diet book all the way through. I always read just enough to learn the basics of the eating plan and thats it. This book seems to me to explain so much. I was back into the carbs and sugar routine and was getting out of control. And this cardiologist who developed it explains in detail why carbs and sugar cause a vicious cycle for us. The more of it we eat the more we crave it. So I'm trying it. I have to give up all sugar and all fruit and all 'white' stuff for 2 weeks to jump start myself and detox from the sugar. This is my 2nd day...and I got thru it ok. I'm not craving anything....so when I feel the need to graze...its from habit and not need. So I have a sf popsickle. And I don't care if I eat 3 or 4 a day. It works. It satisfies that need and the desire for 'sweets'. I will bend the rules just a bit and have a low cal low sugar protein shake for one of my snacks. (I use EAS AdvantEdge coffeehouse shakes) We'll see how it works. We are all in this together...and we do need to support and help each other. Lets just do it. Hugs Charlie

Boy these last few weeks I can relate to the carbs and sugar stuff. Thanks for this post. I guess its time to get the South Beach Book and read it too! Maybe that is what is changing my moods too (white carbs). I have done more bread in the last few weeks because of Grandmother staying here. Yes I can't believe I went right back into the white stuff so easily. I had been so good for so long. Okay goodbye to rice, bread, potatoes! Please keep up posted on how things work out for you! Thanks Debbie

Day 3....South Beach... Did ok all day yesterday. Sugar withdrawal headache is finally gone. Had 2 eggs and canadian bacon for breakfast. And my coffee of course.....went to a ball game last night and probably ate a few too many roasted peanuts...but all in all....ok. Up a half pound but I know thats from the salt in the peanuts last night. Can we say CONSTIPATION? Dang. I will go over to Walgreens in a few minutes to get some bene-fiber. The book does say we should take it anyway...15 minutes before a meal with water...it's supposed to mix with what we eat to make digestion easier.....but since food doesn't stay long in the pouch...it may not apply to us....but I need it for the real reason!!!!! I am also not going to stress over exercise.....I will do what I can. If I can't do an hour...and if 15 minutes is all I can do...then so be it. Anyone else South Beaching? I won't post what I've lost until Tuesday...that will be one week. Hugs Charlie

Girls....I am soo in the same boat too...I had RNY laproscopic October 2003...and have regained 7 pounds... I am a bad grazer and then binge on sugar as well...I try so hard to get back on track but to no avail....what can be done?? Sonya Brooke

Ladies pass me a paddle and we can help get the boat moving in the right direction again. I am having all the same problems. I am willing to help anyway i can and hopfully it will help me too.........hugs to all; Terri

Me too - I'm up 5 pounds and about in a panic - I know what I need to do - get off the carbs - those darn crackers...Today i started writing everything down - I have to get the discipline back into my life...I did so good until January and then it was like ---ta da I'm here - I look good - I've arrived....and all the bad started crashing back in...we have all been taught - now we need ot help each other stay honest and on focus...

I really believe that South Beach is the way to go. I have also read the book (along with about a million others) BY combining his smart eating style with a bit of Dr Phils behavior modification I can really get it together. The trouble is keeping it together for more than a day or two!!! I'm ready to make a commitment with you guys!! At 14months out I can't let this get away from me already! I seem to have gotten a bit ****y about my food choices. I can tolerate just about everything so I haven't been as discipled as I should.