WLS potential reached????

Yup.  I'm back.  Back in twoterville that is.  This is so frustrating and depressing. I've been going up and down with same 2-3 pounds for ever it feels like.   I really feel like, no make that I believe that I've reached my potential with the WLS.  Anything more is going to have to come from resuming a dieting mentality which I've promised myself I would never return to.  I just want to maintain a healthy dietary intake and stay away from measuring, counting, depriving, etc.  Entering the diet mentality has hurt me over the years, that's why I've needed to have WLS.  Once I start down that diet road, I've set myself up for mental sabotage and failure because diets send me into a psychological tail spin.   I can follow structure, I can follow rules.  I just can't follow a diet. I become miserable on diets. So, am I just in a rut?  In a stall?  Have I allowed the calories and carbs to get away from me?  That last question is a definite possibility.  I definitely need to shake things up a bit as far as eating more protein dense foods.  I do tend to eat a lot of "slider" foods I think.  I eat a lot of cottage cheese, stews, chili's, etc.  All high protein, but all probable slider foods therefore I can eat more of them and the full feeling doesn't last long.  Its been recommended to me that I do the 5 day pouch test.  I've been hesitant because to me that seems like entering the diet mentality world again, but I'm rethinking that.  I think that I will do the 5 day pouch test next week when I'm home for 5 days in a row and my husband will be out of town...therefore I won't have to worry about making a real dinner for him or having to provide explanations about what I'm doing.  Hopefully, this will help me get back in touch with the basics and maybe even jump start this possible stall (although I have a hard time believing this is a stall, it has to be real and all my doings). What have I got to lose?  ( no pun intended)

JewelRing, It would help to know what your exercise routine is. V

Here is the link for  the 5 day pouch test:http://www.5daypouchtest.com/plan/theplan.html

I just wrote this on another post

 

Post Date: 4/10/08 6:33 pm

Hey I just want to jump in here and tell you about the 5 day pouch test...one you will drop rapid weight and two when you are done with the 5 days you will feel like you have just had surgery really.

I did the test right before Christmas as I was not going to get any further out of control than I had become (I gained 25 lbs the last 6 month of the year). Well here I am not even 4 months later with a nearly 40 pd weight loss.

I will be 6 years out in July and I have never felt better or about myself. I have also never been smaller. I am in some clothes a loose 10. I still want to buy 12's and almost get mad because the do not fit. I know crazy.

I just want to encourage you and everyone who is here that if you can get yourself back to basics, your tool still works as good as if it was new. The surgery does not fail,we/I failed....well really not failed, just hit a major speed bump that made me wake up and take some inventory of what the heck I was doing.

So to all of you out there....don't give up....we were blessed to have this surgery and you can still get back on track and get that natural high of being in control of your body, mind and food!

 

PEACE OUT!!!!  

For me the 5dpt seems like a mental time out to get your head and pouch in sync...I think it's worth giving that a try. and to me..5 days isn't the same as pre-WLS dieting. It's only 5 days.  Definately give it a try and re-set your pouch, so to speak. Keep us posted about how it works. You know the slider foods aren't working for you so maybe the pouch test is something that will get you thinking less food, harder to digest, satified longer...

I can understand where you are coming from when you talk about wanting to avoid the "diet mentality."  That's never been a healthy place for me, and I often wound up doing a lot of self-defeating behaviors when I was "dieting."   I'm intrigued by your statement that you can follow structure and rules, but that you can't follow a diet.  I think of a "diet" as a rule-set that gives you a structure about a healthy way for you to eat.  It may be helpful if you shift your thoughts away from "dieting" and toward "eating healthy."  And for me, eating healthy sometimes includes weighing and measuring some things, although not everything.  It's just helps me ensure that I'm following the rules and structure of the food plan I committed to when I had WLS. 

For me, what's most important is how I choose to think about what I'm doing in relation to food.  I've given myself permission to eat whatever I want; by not making anything off limits, by leaving the choice about whether I really want something in my hands as opposed to saying "I'm not allowed to eat that," I feel like I actually freed myself from a lot of unnecessary guilt-tripping and mind games.  And for me, I'll now often pass up things I could not have walked away from prior to WLS because I know I could have it if I really wanted it.  And some days I do really want it; when that happens, I eat it, enjoy it, savor it, and move on.  I don't beat myself up.  I don't justify what I'm doing to people around me.  I simply enjoy and experience the delicious food I'm eating!   I hope some of this rambling makes sense.  I'm really just trying to encourage you to work on changing your mindset about working with a daily food plan, which is how I think about what I do.  I'm not on a diet, I'm just mindful about what I eat and how much I eat.   Good luck on your continuing journey -  Kellie