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Yeah I've clicked and clicked and I am not seeing any blog.  So, it's supposedly on her profile on here??? 

Failure is not an option and there are many that think that it is obsessive thinking but they don't get 2 to 3 emails every week from someone that regained their weight.  I cannot tell you how miserable these people are and how much I wish I could snap my fingers and make the regain go away.  It is exactly why I just keep harping on staying at goal when you get there above all else.  I have to repeat the saying again that 100% is easy and 99% is a *****  When I decide that I will not have cake/pie/whatever sugar thing 100% of the time it is an easy easy decision.  When I let myself "oh I'll have a little" I will fail.  Again it is the way I have to do it but I will stress again that I am not deprived.  Again if I regain I will be feeling deprived of the body size I had.  Many of those that write me are so miserable and hopeless.  I just want to cry.  It is so much easier to fix the problems when they are small and that's a fact.  When we have stressors or triggers in our life we have to find them and eliminate them.   I have almost crashed and burned many times because I am so co-dependent but if I let myself do that I cannot help myself nor help someone that wants my help.  I wish I could post each of those emails that I get but of course I cannot.  There are many searches that end up on my blog that say "WLS and suicide".  This is not something to be taken lightly.

Kim if you find yourself eating things you shouldn't then plan your food and know that it is what you get and nothing else.  You are right....if you wait too long and get too hungry you will eat junk.  Did you ever read about HALT?  That stands for:
H-hungry
A-anxious
L- lonely
T - tired
These are times when we are most likely to reoffend.  And when we do it is important that we dust ourselves off and start again.  Every single day we should wake up and be as innocent and garbage free as a newborn baby.  We don't do that though...we carry the baggage from yesterday and the day before.  We cannot change the past, we can only change right now.  We also cannot look to the future as being "when I get happy".  We have to be happy right now. 

I am on my soapbox because many things happened last week and again I got email from 3 women in distress.  I always invite them to join us here and hope they will.  WLS is no easy way out....it gets harder as time goes unless you plan ahead and insistng that failure is not an option.  Fail to plan and you will plan to fail.
hugs, Y

Exactly!!!!  I'm a mom to a Kate myself.

I'm soooooooooooooo proud of you!!  I'm also really happy that you've got such a great doc.  I didn't realize how you were eating when you were talking about a stall.  My bad for not asking more questions.  It is true about the starvation mode thing and that's why I push so hard for everyone to eat breakfast (or a shake) because that is usually the way most of us send our bodies straight into that.  I loved what you said about "now a girl who loved to overeat is forcing herself to complete a meal".  WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!  90 lbs in 6 months is awesome!!
hugs, Y

Tarcia... It is a learning process... don't beat up on yourself.
Some days are better than others.  I found that some days I do better with getting in the right amount of fluids and other days not so much.-
This continues to be an issue for me- resulting in CONstipation!
So.... I need to be aware and DO get in my fluids.

Some days I do better getting in required amount of protein...
some days- not so much. Then I feel tired out and wonder why my energy level is Low...

Same thing with Vitamins. Although- for the MOST part... I must say this is the one area that I've had consistently the MOST success.
So... do your best girl and you WILL reach your goal!

We are here for you!