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

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........