Good Morning. Sometimes you just have to reboot the hard drive

I won't buy one for a while with getting my knee done, can't ride anyway.  So let me know and I will learn from your good fortune or mistakes????

You got it girl!  :-)

Rebooting!!!!!!!!!!!

It's always good to reboot when you get stuck in a rut where you don't want to be.

I had to reboot about 3 weeks ago.  I was really letting too many sweets and bad carbs in.  It sure is a lot easier to get back on track now that it was before WLS.

I do so much better during the week at work.  I'm ok at home as long as I don't have a lot of junk in the house.

Linda

I like my rut.  I have even furnished it.  I am having a hard time getting out of my routine.  It is so hard mentally to eat so often.  I think what I am afraid of is that I will get into a new rut and not want to leave it once I have my bounce back and may need to cut back.
For years whenever I wanted to lose weight I always stuck with 3 meals a day and no snacking.  After I lost the weight I was able to keep it off pretty easily by doing that before WLS.  Now having to eat 6 times a day seems so foreign.  I don't like it.  I don't like feeling uncomfortable any more.  Maybe I felt more in control before and I'm afraid of losing control again, like before I had my revision.
I haven't had any problems on weekends or away from home or eating out.  I eat pretty much the same way no matter where I am.  Lot's of protein and some vegetables, some fruit.  I have my absolute rules that I have never broken, even once, no sugar or wheat (except when I accidentally bought real sugar stuff instead of sugar free).  I should say I have never intentionally broke my rules.  I can live with it, I don't feel deprived.  There is a lot of food out there that doesn't have sugar or wheat.  Actually I am doing gluten free now but that is easy nowadays since so many places offer gluten free.
I guess I am an all or nothing kind of person.  I'm all in or all out.  It is hard to be in the middle.
I'm just taking it one day at a time.  It is scary to see the scale go up.  I spent nearly a year eating to lose and watching the scale go down.  I think I may have to put it away if it continues to freak me out.
What is funny is in my past when I was maintaining I hardly ever weighed myself.  I don't even think I owned a scale.  I just never worried about it because I ate the same way and I knew I could stay the same weight that way.
Jeez, I am so tired of the mind games.

My problem is that I'm out of work and so I don't have the structure that going to work provides. It means my eating is pretty much always like my weekend eating. This is not good and this time of year is a bad time for my weight anyway as I don't work out as much but still eat like I am.

Of course, I know it will get better when I get a job and also when I start up training for my next Ironman. Plus I still fit in all my clothes. So it's hard to get excited on the one hand. On the other, the scale says I'm 15 pounds up from my lowest weight! Now, I know at least 5 of those pounds are muscle and I know my body fat is actually lower than it was when I was 5 pounds lighter. But it still freaks me out to get on the scale.

 Mac
Did you have your body fat done in the water ? Where did you do that?
I think I need some reality check about my bod because I'm obsessing about numbers on the scale when I am actually looking leaner...it's freaking me out...
I know I'm building muscle and all of that but it's hard
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The first time I had it done, it was at the gym with calipers. Later I had the hydrostatic test (in the dunk tank). But they have this new method where they use air instead of water called a BodPod and I am going to try that.

 Thanks for the feedback...I had calipers but I feel they are inadequate really... I think I will try the hydrostatic test if I can find one near here...thanks so much...SEAVIEW

Yes, I agree. The calipers tend to over-estimate body fat on people who have lost a lot of weight and have loose skin.