LadyTazz

I can't PM you but I so want to tell you how your posts on the RNY forum impressed me regarding the thread '9 years later'. Thank you for sharing. Your wisdom overflows.

Thank you so much!  I wonder why you aren't able to PM me?  

Ladytazz, i honestly do not know what to eat.  It will be 9 years for me in March.   I am gaining weight.  I am trying to break the carb habit, but just do not seem to be able to get things under control.  I walk three miles a day six days a week.  I am outgrowing my clothes. 

Ruby

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RNY 3/11/2005

To be 9 years out and at a normal weight is a success to me.  I can't tell you what to eat, I can only tell you what I avoid eating and that is the refined carbs, sugar and gluten.  I was deeply hooked on them when I had my revision.  That is the reason I failed my first WLS and the only way I was able to get off of them was to totally avoid them.  It helped having major surgery because I felt so crummy that eating didn't enter my mind and I committed to sticking to the post op program 100%.  That is what helped me break the addiction and my surgery helps me not to pick it back up again.

They talk about the 5 day pouch test or going back to shakes but to me those things could help if it helps us detox from the carbs.  Once they are out of your system it is much easier to stay away from them because they seem, to me and others I have heard from, to cause more cravings and more hunger.  Once I start there is no such thing as moderation.  I have tried that experiment so many times in my fight against obesity and it has never turned out well.  So, with the help from having restriction I avoid them.  That would be the only advice I would give anyone struggling to lose all their weight or to lose regain.  Go completely sugar free and gluten free for at least a month and see if it doesn't help.  If not then you haven't lost anything.  They won't stop making junk in the next 30 days.  But if you find that you have lost the cravings and you aren't as hungry, and as a result have lost weight, then you know what you need to do.

Good luck to you.  Twenty four pounds is a lot less foreboding then 100 lbs.  I know you can do it.

You just need to click on her avi and then choose 'send message'.

We all love Tazz.  She has been on this board longer than me and I always look forward to her post and insites. 

Ah thanks, Price.  I just love seeing all the same people (and new ones) year after year in the Lightweights forum.  That's the commitment I want and it seems that all of us who have stuck around are maintaining at pretty good weights.  Especially the Sunday Weigh in.  Doesn't it seem that those of us who have posted there for a while seem to keep pretty stable, except me because of my long overdue bounce back?  That is why I stick around, to see how to maintain and the biggest help has been the Sunday Weigh in posts.

I wish.  I keep creeping up.  I can blame part of it on muscle weighing more and my Drs, both PCP and WLS were both very happy with me, but I am up 8 pounds from last year and that is scary to me.

I stick around to be there for the newbees like Linda, Roz and Gina and you were there for me.  And to stay accountable!