GO AHEAD....BEAT ME UP!!!

Are you tracking your food on fitday or sparkpeople ? Just from my viewpoint seems like you are not working this "tool" that you have been given. There seems to be quite a bit of bread/carbs you are taking in . I am almost two years out and haven't even thought of eating snickers or any other type of candy. I limit my bread/potatoes /startches also . Maybe you should go back to basics with protein first, then veggies, fruit and make sure you get in your water.  Check out Thinnerself   he has charts you can track your weight, inches lost and it gives you reports.  I do "cheat" once in a while but my idea of cheating isn't candy , it's low fat triskets or a s/f popsicle. Maybe try cutting down on the donuts, bagels, candy ......Just my suggestion Sandy

I seem to be testing the limits all the time now because I am so disappointed that my intake is not restricted.  Is this mental sabotage or is the surgery failing me?   Is it normal to be able to eat alot?  I know I am breaking rules, but my pouch doesnt dish out any consequences..... It is mental sabotage. Where is your self control? Ultimately the choice to follow protocol is up to you. I realize the tool is supposed to help, but it isn't meant to do ALL the work! You need to try too. All the best to you, I hope you find some answers

After looking at what you have eaten: It is mental sabotage!!
Your breakfast, Lunch and Dinner were all LOADED with carbs. Overloaded to be more precise.
Half a bagel would have been enough.
Lunch--umm ONE snickers would have been enough--how about a salad with the pizza to fill you up??
Dinner----other than the pork--it was all carbs. The couscous is a pasta, peas and carrots--carbs---breaksticks, MORE carbs.... and not a veggie in sight.
You might say but I had peas and carrots----well sadly they are carbs--not true vegetables.

You really need to sit down with a nutritionist/dietician and work out a meal plan that you can live with that will give you a more balanced day. More bulk and less carbohydrates. I think THEN you would see your surgery working for you.
Good Luck.

Your food choices suck. If you aren't able to change this pattern on your own, get into therapy and figure out why you are doing this to yourself. That's the bottom line, I'm sorry to be so blunt and short about it, but there it is. You know what better food choices are yet you are not doing it. You need to change that behavior, which means changing your mindset.  I have an entry on my blog, titled "Mental Preparation for Surgery," that tells a bit about how I've addressed this issue over the years. Perhaps something there might be helpful to you.  If you continually refuse to follow the rules appropriate to your surgery, then you are not going to lose as much weight, you're not going to keep it off long term, and you are risking serious nutrition issues.

At this point, if you were considering a revision to the Duodenal Switch, I'd say don't do it, because you're demonstrating that you don't want to be compliant with what it takes to nourish yourself, and that kind of mindset can kill you with the DS.

What are you willing to do to stop shooting yourself in the foot?

Waaaay too many carbs!!!  Carbs are not our friend - at least not this early out.  Get back on track and get a positive 'I can do it'attitude.   Good luck!

Just because you can eat pizza, subs and chips doesn't mean you have to! You are supposed to be eating dense proteins, veggies and drinking lots of water. I didn't even attempt to eat any kind of bread until I was a year out. The point of the surgery is to retrain your brain to think differently about food. It's why they push the proteins and healthy type foods when you are in the losing phase. No one can lose weight by eating pizza and subs. Heck, if that were true, I would have never needed surgery to begin with.  It seems to me that this is a discipline ad willpower issue, not a surgery issue. Surgery is not a "miracle". You have to follow the diet too.  You admit hat you are "beaking the rules" yet you complain about your lack of weightloss.  Cut out the snickers bars and donuts. Lay off the pizza, no diet soda. Didn't your surgeon give you rules? I'm stunned that you are eating this kind of food and complaining about your not losing. Seriously consider getting some kind of nutritional counseling. Even weigh****chers has helped WLS patients get back on track. It's just  a tool, how you work it is up to you.

I realize my food choices suck and I am struggling mentally.   But that is only one component of what I am trying to understand. However, is it normal to physically be able to eat this kind of food.  Ir is a helluva lot easier not to eat bread and pasta if your pouch doesnt tolerate it.  It is much easier to stop eating if you get full from a cup of food. WHY DOES MY POUCH TOLERATE THIS TYPE OF AND QUANTITY OF FOOD???   Those of you who are ripping into me.....  Are you actually able to comfortably eat large quantities of virtually any food you want?   If so, why have the surgery?   When I was banded,  bread made me feel yucky.  Therefore, I ate no bread.  Now, bread goes down just like anything else. It is very easy to say that I am making bad food choices and it is absolutely true, but I thought my food intake was going to be severely restricted after the surgery and clearly, it is not.   WHY IS THAT?   Can all of you tolerate bread and pasta and melted cheese and dry meat and sugar?  Can you eat the quantities I have described.  I am only seven months out and I can eat whatever I want.....  NO extra  chewing required.  IS THAT NORMAL?   Those of you who have been successful..... could you eat what I have described at seven months out?  And I am not asking if you would mentally.  I am asking if you could physically? I have not given up on this and I am trying to get my head in check, but I'd really like to understand if this is physically working properly.

The short answer is: Yes, I can eat all the foods you've described. The worst thing that happens is some gas.  My food rules are somewhat different because I had the DS and not the RNY. But the principle remains: You must comply with the food rules appropriate to your procedure. Okay, so you can eat more than a cup of food. Eat more protein. Eat more veggies. Back away from the carbs. Very simple.

If you were counting on "intolerance" as your way of enforcing limits, you were doomed for the long run anyway. Those limits and intolerances go away over time. You must learn to eat to nourish yourself, othewise your health is going down the toilet. These are the realities.

 

Umm, what this all boils down to is this...YOU HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY TOO!  I don't dump, never have. I can eat pizza, bread, you name it...I - CAN - EAT - IT! I have been able to tolerate pretty much all foods from the earliest time that I could have them. I was given a set of rules but they were very broad. The difference was "I" chose to make healthy choices. I also chose NOT to eat large quantities either. I measured everything just as I was told to do! I don't know about you but I was NOT given any guareentees about dumping or tolerance of ANY foods. But again "I" chose to do things the healthy way. Did I follow the rules perfectly NO! But I knew that I wanted to leave my obesity behind and the only way to do that was to make healthier choices. Yes I could have sat in my of "woe is me, this didn't turn out the way that I'd hoped" moments. But for me, there was NO time for that...I was on a mission! My mom had lapband done. She lost some weight and then began to self sabotage very early, she was not happy with her doc, she wasn't satified with the advice/amount of help she was given. Blah, blah, blah..you name it, she had an excuse about why she could do right. I will tell you like I told her, DON'T DEPEND ON THE TOOL TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU! Just like a hammer cannot work alone, neither can our pouch! Someone has to work/operate that hammer, same with the pouch.  I am still a master at getting angry about things and punishing myself. I fear that you are doing the same thing. Problem is, the only person that will suffer is you! I had to realize this about myself lately. Yes, I can be angry but I CANNOT continue to punish myself because things are not going as plan. That will only take me back to a place that I never wanted to be in in the first place...hence my having had surgery to begin with.  You have to stop this NOW..."get your mind wrapped around this" immediately! Otherwise you will wake up one day from the haze of your being dismayed, back where you started! Probably hoping for another revision to help you out of that mess. I am sorry if you find this abrasive but sometimes it's the only way! I truly hope you can bring this around soon best of luck to you!

I can eat just about anything.  Sandwiches, chips, ice cream, candy...you name it.  The only thing I have real trouble with is breakfast cereal. I do not now dump and I never have. Some of my tastes have changed --- i could eat a donut, but I don't like them anymore.  I know I am sabotaging myself. I am trying to get back on track.