struggling....I'm craving carbs!!!( kinda long)

Okay guys the last couple of days I have been tempted with carbs good & bad ones. I really wanted to avoid carbs like tortillas, bread, pasta, cereal things like that for the first 6 mths or so.
yeah right it seem like every chance I fix something for my family that has whose food. I won't fix myself a plate but I'm constantly picking @ it  or I  split it out before I swallow it.  Like last week I really wanted a sandwich. How far out were ya'll before you started adding these thing back in to ur diets. Any advice or tips I'm open any suggestions. I would ask my nut but I can't afford one at this time.. so any help would be helpful!! thanks in advance

For me, I didn't really introduce a lot of carbs until about nine months and I didn't eat sugar for the first couple of years. 

I decided that carbs were part of the reason I was morbidly obese so I avoided them for awhile.  When I did eat them, I ate fruits and vegetables with some whole grain bread but not much.

Does your surgeon have an office staff or nurse that you can call and talk to?  Talk to them for their protocol as far as introducing good carbs.  The bad carbs, you don't need.  The habit of avoiding the bad carbs starts now.  That will set the habit for you long term that will allow you maximum weight loss and maintenance.

You can do it! 

Cathy

Hi!
I can't remember when I started eating carbs following surgery, it was a long time ago.  But I do know how difficult it is to be a carbaholic!  Being Italian, I love pasta, bread and more pasta.  I used to bake my own bread and pizza on a weekly basis.  Since starting to BOTT, I made the decision that I had to get my s**t together and have not had any type of "bad carb".  Initally it was hard, but now I don't even think of it.  Seriously, I know it's difficult, but you posting your feelings is a great start to decarbing.  YOU CAN DO IT!!
Deb

I eat 1 slice of Arnold double protein bread toasted with a scambled egg for breakfast once in a while. Carbs are downfalls for most but I think as long as you know your limits you should trust yourself to know when its time to start eating them again.

I'm 3 years out from surgery and have only very recently eaten bread (only the hard bottom of rolls when I eat out) and pasta - very very small bites and very infrequently.  I still do not, and probably never will, eat rice.  The reason is they can so easily stop up our openings.  A painful process!

When you start to crave - it is a pretty good bet it is "head hungry" not "tummy hungry"  which means at that point you a running on feelings not on thinking.  So the thing to do is to do something to plug in your "thinker" and disconnect your "feeler"  What I suggest to my patients is that they start with 100 and count backwards by 7's.  Now, unless we are math whizzes (which I am NOT lol) we have to think.  We can even add the healing of laughter as we realize how we have to struggle to do this.
That disconnects that little girbil running around in our mind insisting we "need" carbohydrates (or whatever our temptation is)  You may need to do this a gazillion million times, but that's OK.  The other thing is - how about serving you family something just as healthy and not nearly as tempting for you?  We don't earn any "brownie" points for suffering.

Keep reaching out to this site.  Lots of encouragement and caring here for you.  We've all been where you are.  WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER, YES WE CAN!

  I know you guys are right  I felt better just writting it . I will talk to dr this week I have my 3mth follow up. I had all my labs drawn so I'm kinda nervous. I'm down 55lbs at this point and still have plenty more to go. I already notice such a difference in myself mentually & physically !  It so comforting to know that I can be open & honest about these kinda of things! Thanks again

I was the pasta queen and bread lover.. I remember getting a fresh loaf of italian or french bread, a stick of butter and either beer and wine.. that was dinner sometimes.  Just writing that is tough.. that would shut me down these days.  I have occasional pasta but a very very small amount.  its one of those foods where one more bite is the difference of being ok to being extremely uncomfortable and miserable for hours.    bread, rice..you have to be so very very careful.  example at lunch today I went to a local deli w/my nieces family and I had roast beef w/chedder on bread.. I ate 1/2 of the sandwich and was done.. now had i eaten the insides of the  sandwich sans the bread I would have been able to eat all the meat/cheese. 

My nut did allow me to have crackers early out for the crunch. I can only manage a 1/2 serving of the crackers but it filled a void and they do carry either 1 or 2 grams of protein if I remember correctly.  I don't eat them often anymore.    I will tell you (and everyone else) papaya enzymes help me when that happens.. it doesn't clear the way to eat more or even want more .. it just helps digest the food that is making you miserable.    Oh, per my nut if you want a sandwich have it on toasted bread, less chance of getting stuck.  I would check tho w/your nut to see if they agree.