I despise the month of december. Too much food everywhere, too many sweets everywhere, too many parties, not enough time for exercise. Sigh.

I made the mistake of baking holiday Cookies to give out to people. Stupid stupid stupid. My kitchen is filled with cookies, brownies and fudge. I have eaten way too many.

I will be lucky to maintain this month. Even though I hit my goal of 50 pounds by christmas I feel so guilty that I have been making poor choices these past couple of weeks. I feel like blah, which is no wonder...eat like crap=feel like crap.

I am dreading going to the dr. I dont want him to be disappointed.

J

each day is a new one. give the cookie and fudge away....... oh and put the shame is the garbage can!

get back to the things you know are important. we all make these stupid moves, but we are never going to give up now!!!!

That's hitting the Nail rite on the Head. Give it away to someone else, and chalk it up as experience.

We learn more and more everyday. I made fudge, had 1 small piece, put it all in Tins, and everyone is so Happy to have Homemade Goodies !

Well, more power to them, if they can have it, but I know I can't.. So it won't be in my house.

My Husband said I only want 4 pieces (THAT'S ALL !) So he ate 3, and the 1 went in the Garbage.

Your Banded, so a fresh start is easy ! Just start fresh again, and enjoy the Holiday.

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

Very Good advice from everyone! I too have eaten a little differently this week. We had a Christmas dinner with some friends, my work team party, and several people have brought me Christmas goodies as a gift (which I cant figure out since everyone knows I am trying to lose weight). But I have done really well with it all. I eat a little bit of the special Christmas stuff that I really want but do not eat the quantity that I normally would have eaten. I gave the goodies to my hubby and daughter with the condition that they dont leave them laying around in my line of sight. If I was eating badly, I made myself workout more. As far as having time to work out, I have learned to make myself a priority. No more excuses for not working out is my motto. I make time for it. It has been tough from Thanksgiving till now but I have managed to enjoy some holiday goodies and still have lost 10 pounds since Thanksgiving.

Good luck and as everyone else said, "Forgive yourself. Tomorrow is a new day, Well maybe not tomorrow (Christmas) but after that get right back on track. Dont fall into that trap of saying "Well now I might as well wait till after the New Year".

Very good advice...

Wow....I'm sitting here reading the original tweet crying like an idiot. This is EXACTLY how I've felt this entire month!! I'm really hoping I haven't stretched my pouch too bad, and that the scale is kind to me. All I can say is hang in there, we'll get through this together and start fresh with more focus and determination than ever!!

Kelly

I'm absolutely over it. I dont bake for christmas, ever, for that reason anyway, but just the having a drink with someone. I dont ever have more than a glass of wine, but I've had one waaaay too many days, then we've had a few meals out with friends, a Christmas dinner with my family, one with DH's, then went visiting everyone again on Christmas day itself. Just a nibble, everywhere you go.

I've found this year, like others, that with a band, December is not my healthiest month, but with effort to exercise I dont gain weight - and I havent - but with my new plumbing since a bowel resection, I cant handle a celebratory meal anymore, I despair of ever being able to go out to eat with friends again and not end up in pain. Small meal, fine, but just add talking and a drink or two during the course of it, and coffee after and it seems to overload my system. I wont go into details but I've spent more nights up and down for the toilet eight or nine times than I have sleeping. I feel really bleugh after this December!

I was banded this past Monday so today was the 7th day post op and I had a piece of steak the size of 50 cent piece cut in tiny bites and chewed till it was mush O had a tablespoon of mashed potatoes eaten in tiny bites and a half of a dinner roll eaten in tiny bites and chewed to mush and I sipped a half a glass of sparkling apple cider the only side effect was a healthy burp a while later when I was washing dishes and Iam comfortably full and have no desire for any of the goodies lying about if this is as bad as December get for me then I got this since I started on the pre op diet till now I have lost a total of 35 lbs and really feel like Iam finally on my way to the last lifestyle change I will ever need in my life my motto will be small and slow for the win !

I was on a 24 hour calorie counting vacation. It ended about 7 hours ago. This by far was the worst month for me as well. I guess I could just say the worst week between holiday parties at work, friends coming in town and wanting to do lunch and my parents' big Christmas Eve Open House. I was going to be happy on Saturday (the day I weigh myself) if I had not gained. Surprisingly, I lost, not as much as usual though. However, yesterday and today have not been my high points. Back at counting the calories tomorrow and exercise like I didn't skip today! I did get a medicine ball from Santa that I will be putting to good use!