Suz

Do I ever have sleep issues! I've had chronic insomnia since puberty. I didn't start putting on weight till I was almost thirty but I've had chronic insomnia ever since I can remember, even when I was skinny. Going 2 or 3 days with no sleep at all is nothing to me, that happens all the time. Yes I do have sleep apnea but the CPAP machine drove me nuts. So I spend most of my life in a state of sleep deprivation and I eat carbs almost exclusively and I have type II diabetes, no wonder I'm such a mess. When I eat cereal I don't measure it, it's probably a cup or so and I might eat 3 or 4 bowls in about sixteen hours unless it's a day when I cook or just cannot stand to look at one more bowl of cereal, or my husband complains too much. I think I need to go back over all the info I collected when I was pre-op and just start over. During the pre-surgery diet I lost 15lbs, at least I haven't gained that back, but I still need to lose over 100lbs.
The protein drink I use is Unjury, chocolate of course. One scoop is 100 calories, add skim milk and it's 180 calories. I use these to tame my chocolate cravings. Some days I don't have any, some days I might have three.
Being diabetic before I was banded I just ate all day because if you've ever experienced hypoglycemia you'll do anything to avoid it. So my blood sugar was high all the time but I didn't know I was diabetic then, I just knew if I went very long without eating I'd suffer the hellish symptoms I later came to know was hypoglycemia, and my diabetes is not considered to be all that bad, my A1c tests are never much above normal.
Thanks for all the suggestions but canned green beans and tuna fish, heated? I don't think so, I can barely stand tuna salad. lol
I used to live in a big city, hated it and moved to the country. One of the cool things about that is if I want to eat junk I have to drive an hour to get it. So I never go grocery shopping hungry, never buy sugary stuff and that's been a big help, but in recent depressing times I've just made homemade goodies. There are no support groups anywhere near me, my doctor is a 2 hour drive and not nearly as wonderful as what you all seem to have. In fact I have not seen my surgeon since the surgery, the fills are done at the Bariatric clinic by a Nurse Practioner. I have never been scoped or anything. But when I got the last fill she showed me when the needle was in before she pushed the plunger you could see liquid from my band slowly backing up into the needle. She said that meant I was tight enough, but she put another drop in at my insistance because I was so desperate to lose weight. Well I'm rambling. thanks for all the input.