This holiday season has reminded me of a harsh reality. I am an addict. The fact has been lost on me the past 8 months. I've been well behaved and I've lost more weight than I expected or really wanted to. But I got bold the over the last week and tried food that I assumed would make me sick. Like fudge and Cookies. The bad news is I did not get sick and I pretty much learned I can eat anything. This is not good. I had RNY verses the sleeve so I would not revert to my old sugar habit. That did not happen. My little pouch loves fudge just like my big stomach did.

I gained 4 pounds this week. In and of itself that's not a big deal because I'm still lower than I had planned to be. It's a huge wake up call that I could put the 100 pounds back on pretty easily. That is scary and sucks!!!

I'm an addict. I will always be an addict.

Amy, your story scares me. I love sweets too. I haven't tried what you did yet but there may come a day. My pouch right now doesn't allow much sugar or fat but that's from the processed foods I eat not from sweets. Oh God, I just hope that when or if I try it I get sick. Best of luck to you and keep me updated here on you trials and tribulations.

This holiday season has reminded me of a harsh reality. I am an addict. The fact has been lost on me the past 8 months. I've been well behaved and I've lost more weight than I expected or really wanted to. But I got bold the over the last week and tried food that I assumed would make me sick. Like fudge and Cookies. The bad news is I did not get sick and I pretty much learned I can eat anything. This is not good. I had RNY verses the sleeve so I would not revert to my old sugar habit. That did not happen. My little pouch loves fudge just like my big stomach did.

I gained 4 pounds this week. In and of itself that's not a big deal because I'm still lower than I had planned to be. It's a huge wake up call that I could put the 100 pounds back on pretty easily. That is scary and sucks!!!

I'm an addict. I will always be an addict.

OMG I could have written this post, wow, I am 8 months out, sugar addict, and gained 4 pounds thanks to my indulging! I do not have dumping and sugar is my downfall. I did so well for 8 months and now I had to realize that I can only rely on MYSELF when it comes to sugar coz dumping is not stopping me and I can have a LOT of chocolate and cakes without any problems. It was like an icy shower when I saw the numbers on the scale. Wake up call

This surgery is a tool. What the mind thinks the body will follow. I tell myself this all the time. I had my surgery on Monday and know my weakness. I will be bringing my own goodies to holiday parties because I never will allow myself a pass because I've had surgery. It's been a long road but health is the reason for all of this for me

Thank you all so much for your honesty. I have realized that I can eat what I want without getting sick too. However I am still happy to say that I do get sick when I over eat. At this point I am still limited to about 1/2 cup. I am scared too that I will eat the wrong foods. We have to forgive bad choices or we will end up where we were. Thank you Kmendez325 for your note about bringing your own. Very good advice. Hope the New year starts out great for you all.

Thank you all for your honesty. I will have RNY in February and every bit of information helps. I am an addict and the obsessive compulsive behavior shows it's ugly head in many ways. Once I have sugery I know there will be foods I can't touch in fear of walking that nasty addictive monster.

I am an addict of food in general! I have lost a total of 140lbs and my surgery was performed January 2013. I continue to struggle with this everyday. I was really good for a year and a half and started eating some not so good food every now and then. I have had dumping but it takes a lot to get there. Remember here is where we get support and I continue to go to therapy and have since before the surgery. It is key to my success!

Thanks for sharing your stories! I already know that sweets do not cause dumping for me and I had a huge sweet tooth before surgery. The good news for me at this moment is I hate the taste of anything that has a lot of sugar or even artificial sweeteners in it. I am hoping this lasts forever but I am guessing not.

Anyway, I just wanted to say it is important that you forgive yourself immediately, it was the holidays after all. Get yourselves back on track immediately so you don't go down that road. We all know what we have to do to leverage this tool.

Don't be so hard on yourselves! Just time to pull up our boot straps and move forward.

Good luck!