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

Jenny, Welcome the the club nobody every wants to be in. I'm in a similar situation too. I feel awful about what I'm doing to myself and I also need to get back on track. I feel better that people on this board who have had surgery know what its like to slip up with the food again!!! Lets all support and help each other get back on track. I think on Monday I will go back to protein shakes and a lean cuisine for dinner, sort of like immediate post-op(without the lc) I just want to get myself in the right direction again and start losing some weight. I have been walking this week, so I feel better about adding exercise to my routine. Please email me anytime Anyone can email me and we can help each other. "regular people" although well intentioned don't understand us. We understand each other the best. Amy

Ok....my goal for tommorrow is to get outside for my walk. That would be a good start.

I want in on this too! I had done really well about maintaining about 4 pounds from goal. Until we went on vacation in May. Now I'm struggling to get the 5 pounds I've gained off. I also have issues with low blood sugar and find myself grazing to combat that. I do have an appt with my WLS doc Tuesday so hopefully, he can point me in the right direction. For the last 4 days, I've been de-carbing (if that's a word). If I don't eat carbs, I don't crave them. So if I already know that, why in the heck do I eat them?????? I know I'm not stupid. Maybe just stubborn. I like carbs, therefore, I'm going to eat them??? I really don't know. We all seem to have a self-destruct button that somehow got flipped back to the "ON" position. And I was feeling so smug about no regain. Serves me right! Those five pounds came on me faster than any I've ever gained! I am scarred. I won't let it happen. I will try to check in every day but can't until evening. I'm at work by 7 and really don't function very well early in the morning. Any post I would write would probably be gibberish! We are in this together and we can get back on track. I think I'll go take a walk! Lyn 262/152/142

I want in too!!!!!!!! I have 3 1/2 years post op, just had a TT, BL and ventral hernia repair and have recently lost 8.5 pounds since my TT surgery, but I would LOVE to lose the last 19.5 pounds I need to lose. I had purchased the South Beach book some time ago, and since then packed it away. I am going to go dig it out and pull an all nighter reading it. I would love to begin will all you "buddies".... WE CAN DO THIS!!! ESPECIALLY TOGETHER.... Connie

Hi Jenny! I just had to write you - I grew up in Mundelein - my father was a contractor and built 1/2 of the town in the late 60's and early 70's! I can still remember our house on Highland Road, the one on Midlothian Road, and the last house we lived in before moving to Phoenix - it was on Lucerne Court, and we had Loch Lomond Lake as our backyard - our house had the big black metal pier (that my dad built) Is it still there? Is the beach still right there? Oh gosh, I bet everything has changed so so so much! I havent been back to Illinois since 1973 - I bet Mundelein is COMPLETELY different now! Is Santa Maria del Popolo Elementary School still open? How about Mundelein High or Carmel High School? Ok, now that Ive strolled down memory lane...back to your question...I would be happy to be your WLS buddy and coach you back to success - you already are a success Jenny!!! You just need to get back on track - I fall off course every other week it seems like! LOL But I just get right back on! I am approaching my 1 year surgery-anniversary...I have so far shed 129 lbs and want to drop another 25-30 (my hanging skin prob counts for about 15 of that - ugh! Gross! LOL) It definitely is alot tougher this far out - finding that I can eat anything and no longer dump scares the crap out of me! But does that stop me from eatng the junk sometimes? Heck no!!! But such is life - we all know what works for us, and what it takes to reach our goal - so wat do we do??? WE GET BUSY AND DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!! So, feel free to drop me an email anytime, and if you have a chance, please catch me up on all the happenings there in Mundelein! Take care, and just remember Im just click away! Debbie [email protected]

Hi Debbie. Sorry it took me so long to reply. I was away for the weekend. That is so cool about the Mundelein connection. I live in a new duplex that boarders Vernon Hills on Butterfield Rd. & Rt. 60 (Townline). I don't know much about the older sections of Mundelein. Mundelein High and Carmel are still around. I am forming an e-mail group due to the huge response I got to my post. I will include you and we can continue to help each other! Jenny

Hey ladies I am on board . I have yahoo messenger if anyone wants to go that way or you can email me. I try to get on here everynight. yahoo is; jtridesx2 email is: [email protected]

Yep - me too! Aside from my own dealings with the regain, I'm beginning to find it difficult to counsel pre-ops and newbies at our support group. They are so "starry-eyed" about having this surgery, just like we all were. I was so smug the first two years post-op, getting to goal within a year and then maintaining it for the next year. But once the appetite came back, along with the cravings, it's been downhill ever since. I have tried several times to follow South Beach or Sonoma Diet (very similar to SB), but the carbs call me back every time. A couple of close friends have already started making comments to me (in the most caring way) about regaining weight - it's sooooo disheartening! I've been seeing an eating disorder therapist for the last 3 months, and have made no progress whatsoever. I don't seem to be able to journal my thoughts and feelings - hell I can't identify them, other than I feel the need to eat, and I think about it constantly! That's my thoughts and feelings! She says I am not to give in and eat anything unless I can identify actual hunger pains. I rarely feel hunger pains because the cravings get there first and I cave in. So I'm no closer to solving the issue, and a lot poorer for my efforts. But I read this board every day hoping that someone will say the magic words that will click in my head. Betsy

Hi, I need help too! Most of you got to your goal and I congrat. you. I was 455lbs. when I had the surgery. Lost 200lbs. and am 2 yrs. out. I haven't lost but 12lbs. in the last 6 mos. and 10 of it was 2 weeks ago on the plateau buster diet. The sad thing is I still have 100 lbs. to go! I am to have my plastics done in Jan. and really would like to lose more before that. I know that my attitude defeats me and so a reality check is in order. Damn those carbs!!!!! Count me in buddies! Dancin D 7/7/04 rny/lap -200lbs.

Hello Family..... I too need lots of help... what scares me is that i am not even a year out.... It will be a year in Aug. Where I have not ate a lot of sugar things like cakes, pies, cookies etc but I cant stop grazing on chips and junk food. I have lost 115 lbs and I am scared to death I am going to gain it all back...... someone please help... email me at [email protected] or [email protected] thank you so much jeannine

Ok Im on the boat too....I wasnt going to reply to this, cause i didnt want to admit it. But here I am. I too have gained about 4 lbs cause i can eat anything and everything and i dont like that, i wish i got sick when i ate certain things then i would eat them. We know what to do, why dont we do it??? so weird. Im here for anyone to talk to also. On Yahoo Im sugrnspc41 and on AIM Im TesssTX please feel free to message me anytime, i would love some friends to get us thru this. Tess 370/178/??? tummy tuck 4/10/2006

Im there with yall too! Please include me in needing a buddy! My yahoo ID is ttruelyme and so is my MSN messenger- get in touch anytime! Hugs to all! Trudi

Please ladies, dont beat yourselves up we are going to make it.

Checking in...... Start week 2 of South Beach Today....... Wooooo hoooooooo I've lost 4 pounds. I know most of it is water...but some is fat and I can feel it a tiny bit in my clothes. I'm now beginning my 2nd week with NO WHITE CARBS, NO SUGAR AND NO FRUIT. I sure miss the fruit....thank God for sugar free popsickles. Getting really sick of eggs.... Its not really that hard....I eat junk out of habit and boredom. I don't have to crave anything to eat it....but I can say that I really don't crave carbs now...and I have no trouble saying no. It's the fruit that calls my name though. Hugs to you Charlie

WOW!!! It's not just me. COunt me in too. I had suregry May 2001. The surgery was the magical cure we all hope for. The weight came off with no effort and I didn't have to give up sugar......Actually got down too far due to problem pregancy and hernia operations. Got back up to a healthy weigt and maintained for awhile. But the last year I have put on about 40 pounds. HAd my labs done about a month ago and they are terrible.......SO I am back to protein, protein, protein.....have added supplements and B12 shots. Am going to have a transfusion.....getting excercise back in there too. I have lost eight pounds, but it is a struggle daily. One that I never thought I would have to make again. But I never want to be the way I was before....so I struggle on. Count me in on your group. [email protected] I am also on msn messenger........