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Helpless..
I guess you have the right attitude for your limitations but i am wondering why you sign in as 'helpless'. Do you need noodle lashing too?

I went on a 3.4 mi wslk sunday [took me 2 hrs] and totally stunned myself...destroyed ankles again...practcally was shuffling along..barely able to walk. Couldn't sleep all of sunday, part of monday,last nite snd tonite too. Lost 2 lbs. Gotta find a happy medium.

Hope u really know where i live. Needed that!

Ive done all but transcranial...chicken

@proud grammy...i am not so confident when i gain weight that i will get rid of it.im back over 200...was 207. Today: 205. Have no idea what helps at this point. Feels like I'm back to square one. Surgery does not consider these issues years out. i was sleeved 2011. My lowest was 185. Held onto 193 for a long stretch. Now 205. I feel like i need another surgery

@proud grammy...i am not so confident when i gain weight that i will get rid of it.im back over 200...was 207. Today: 205. Have no idea what helps at this point. Feels like I'm back to square one. Surgery does not consider these issues years out. i was sleeved 2011. My lowest was 185. Held onto 193 for a long stretch. Now 205. I feel like i need another surgery

Brazcan,
Are u eating more because of hunger? How far out are you? Did you ever make goal? I'm 74# after 5 months and worried how/what I will eat after the first year. No liquids with cals yet and no fruit yet, either.

I dont keep a record of what i eat anymore. And I just found out my shrink dx"d me with BED as well. She recommends transcranial magnetic somethingorother not drugs which dont work for me. Am having a severe case of the "f*ck its" and eating too much.

Zzzombrie....do u know any negative shrinks? I did meet a guy who was rabidly opposed to bariatric surgery. He had some sort of contraption in his office that once he felt u r ready, he hooked u up to this'game' on his puter....but idiocy to the side, i have met mostly positive shrinkos.
I just got dx of a stress fracture in my knee. Im grounded...and eating like an ass. Happy new year

I dont keep a record of what i eat anymore. And I just found out my shrink dx"d me with BED as well. She recommends transcranial magnetic somethingorother not drugs which dont work for me. Am having a severe case of the "f*ck its" and eating too much.

As a relative newbie I am wondering @ how much people are actually consuming who are more advanced than the first few weeks. There seems to be a real disconnect between my mouth and my stomach. I feel something in my stomach and cannot identify it as "full" but just let's say 'xxx' and yet, my mouth will want to have more and more shoveled in. I had the grocer cut up prepared grilled salmon into 2 oz chunks. I ate one yesterday (even tho I wasn't supposed to start til today) and then followed that with almost 3/4 can artichoke hearts (canned veggies permitted) and an ice pop. I couldn't finish the pop. It started coming back on me. But my mouth wanted more. I kept thinking I will feel better if I swallow this or that. As it turnedout, I couldn't even take my meds last nite...no room.
I am still looking for a shrink for support and still breaking off with the old one who is ill and still astounded that I could go thru all the abuse of surgery and not be able to disciplin myself better.
I'm not even sure what I feel....
Do wish there was a databank of shrinks who specalize in bariatrics...

This discussion is for people who are several years out from the surgery and ARE experiencing wt gain enough to make us worry. It is not for recently op'd or for just 2 or 3 yrs out. Its not for newly sleeves or even 18 months. Most of us were good the first couple of years. Get it?

We will ALWAYS have this fear. It is logical to fear it. Fat cell theories show that once we have them, they will plague us forever wanting to be refilled. I am 3.5 years out. I struggle to stay under 200. I didnt imagine it would be easy b u t i did not anticipate a return to grazing almost 24/7.
I do not TOUCH bread, crackers, Pasta, rice, ANY white carbs. I eat limited berries an apple once in a blue moon. We CANNOT eat constantly, even if it is GOOD food and expect to maintain goals. I am unable to yank myself away from this life long habit.
Exercise. ...yes, follow no drinking rule
...i DO break that one....but i am no way stable . I think i should learn to embrace this chaotic weight struggle and relax!
Guess that will be my next therapy goal!

Wl warrior...thanks for revealing your thoughts about seeing other "fat" people. That has been my thinking ever since i lost weight...not nec with surgery, either. I am convinced that it stems from self hatred. I cant look in the mirror if i am fat. I tear myself apart for being fat. I think the thoughts are externalizing my true feelings about myself. That makes even the slightest gain especially anxiety provoking.
Im not alone!

I added Metamucil to my Water and that helped. Also, i stewed prunes and drank the juice. That really worked well. You may need a softener afternso many days

This discussion is for people who are several years out from the surgery and ARE experiencing wt gain enough to make us worry. It is not for recently op'd or for just 2 or 3 yrs out. Its not for newly sleeves or even 18 months. Most of us were good the first couple of years. Get it?

Samelton68...yeah that prickled.

Agree with ann on this. Laura, i do want to say that two surgeons wanted to do bypass on me. I wanted vsg. When the second surgeon completed my VSG he stated emphatically that if *i* had asked for bypass before he did the procedure, he wouldve closed me up and walked,away from my surgery because it was totally not suitable for me. I don't understand the medical reason for that...but something told me to ask for VSG. You may be right abt malabsorption . In my case, i absorb everything EXCEPT fats! I have no Vitamin /mineral deficiencies. Like i say, i dont have any 'crappy 'food in the house but i do have good food. Berries, nuts, carrots,peppers, mushrooms, plain yoghurt, kale, chickpeas...etc and boy do i graze thru the day on those.

Hey...we should all saddle up Rocinante and ride after a skinny quest! Im changing my handle to Donna Quixote...(rocinante was the name of his horse)

Ms skinniness...why? hair doesn’t weigh much. .

Vsg ann u asked me what i meant by blueprint. I responded "magic wand". Then later on msj to laurak cited the emily Dickenson poem abt a plilgrim looking for a path toward....whatever!

Toler my suit was a pair of 5x shorts and a bra and tank top. U must keep moving

Vsgann2014...um "magic wand"?

Laurak712 u seem to be the exception that proves the rule. I wonder if people who started at a lower weight have a better chance of keeping it off. I wonder if younger people have a better chance. Ir maybe a combination of the two.

Laurak712 u seem to be the exception that proves the rule. I wonder if people who started at a lower weight have a better chance of keeping it off. I wonder if younger people have a better chance. Ir maybe a combination of the two.