Ok so here is my story. I hesitated to post until now. I was banded march 08. I lost a ton of weight. But like so many others, took my eye off the ball and it slowly creeped back up. So as of December 10 2012 I am back on the program. That means that Ihalf way through my fourth week. I decided to get active. I walk like it is a parttime job . I use the excuse that I work so much anyway i did not have to work out....lie number one. Aso told myself that sincr I recently got married and had kids that it was "natural" that I put on 90 pounds.... lie number two. But I am young I have plenty of time to lose the weight.... you guessed it lie number three. Ok so I finally quit lying to myself.. As i stated getting active... walking is a must for me I have also bought an elliptical machine which I love... I have relized that I have a food adiction and I am getting help for it. I found a great book written by Steven Arterburn called "Lose it for life" There is a great bunch of ideas and it helps you deal with the addiction as well as the weight loss and keeping it off. Anyway I plan on posting more on my new start. With the Lords help I will make it happen for good this time. Currently I am down 14 pounds from my restart weight of 291. As of Monday 12-31 I was 277. Please feel free to leave comments or some encouragement if you would like to. Thanks!

Yes! Evenings are the hardest for sure! After I put my son to bed at night...what else is there to do but eat!? I'm working through it though! I need to start going and jumping on the treadmill...

It's sad that cookies and ice cream go down easier than chicken and vegetables!!

Love it! Wouldn't it be funny if it were the opposite way around?! Haha!

Congratulations to you all for taking the New Year "by the horns". You all have taken the 1st steps to controlling your weight gains. We are here for you, welcome back and best wishes to you all. Food is an addiction, we can't go "cold turkey" and be completely off, that is probably the hardest part of this addiction. We need to control our addiction with the help of great lapband tool. Karen

Hey folks! I'm new to this thread. I've began my re-dedication to my band about 3 month ago after much frustration. I was banded in Nov. 08. 2009 and the beginning of 2010 was great. I slowed all the way down in 2011. I never lost more than 55 pounds, but I was looking and feeling great. My mom took ill in 2012, and later died, in June. It took me til Nov. To have a desire to really loose weight. I had started working out, but I don't think that the dedication was really there. Rather than trying to eat less of the junk, I want to be grateful for whatever food that's health and I can process. I began making veggie/fruit smoothies and it seems that my band has natural tighten. I'm so grateful. Especially right now, cause I'm not working and can't afford to pay $100 for an adjustment. I'm just trying to stay the course but its hard. I'm still struggling with the aftermath of my mother's death, and I'm in this long-distance relationship. I feel so lost sometimes and its so easy to stop and eat.

Night munchies are the hardest to break. I'm trying to read more & keep my hands & mind busy otherwise my hands put food in my mouth a lot. Lol even talking a lot didn't work. Oh well one day at a time. Our group should be called the little engines that could..lol.

You should try to have more meat at night. Like a nice piece of chicken and a salad or veggies. I had a taco salad at 7p, I use 0 calorie greek yogurt instead of sour cream and I'm super full.

I didn't have the taco either. Just the lettuce, cheese, and salsa

You should try to have more meat at night. Like a nice piece of chicken and a salad or veggies. I had a taco salad at 7p, I use 0 calorie greek yogurt instead of sour cream and I'm super full.

Do you mean 0% fat greek yogurt? I've never heard of a greek yogurt that doesn't have calories.

I think coming to this site at night helps me! Reading people's stories inspire me. I don't compare, I just try to enlighten myself. I also take the time at night to write in my journal. It keeps me from eating because I don't want to write that extra food in and add more calories to my day. For a week, write down the foods that you wanted to eat at night but didn't! When you add the calories up at the end of the week you'll be shocked at how many calories you saved by resisting this urge! It makes me feel empowered for the next week! It shows me how all those little things add up.

Excuse me. 0 fat Greek yogurt. And the 0 fat on has the most protein, so adding that really helps. Its morning and I'm still kinda full. Well kinda :-)

It's sad that Cookies and ice cream go down easier than chicken and vegetables!!

Love it! Wouldn't it be funny if it were the opposite way around?! Haha!

It would be perfect. The crazy thing is we crave the things that God didn't make for our bodies' to process. Something wrong when we crave all the bad stuff and have little desire for the things that keep us healthy. So sad. Gotta do better. Its like it just hit me. Its really the devil.