I am two months out and I am starting to cheat..not much but I do. I take little pieces of bread, french fries, little piece of cake. I hate myself for this. I should stop doing this. they pass really normal like anything else. i don't cheat everyday but I do every now and then. also I ate mixed nuts last two days. they are healthy but I am afraid they will sabotage my weight loss efforts. I will not take them again.

i know i feel guilty when i try to eat something i shouldn?t. but then i take a look at a before picture of my weight and then i see how much better i am looking now, and then i go back to my usual diet and exercise.

If you have to have chips, I have seen some sort of protein chips on the bariatric eating site that they say are tasty. I am sure that they aren't quite as good as potato chips and cheetoes, but the crunch means almost as much to me as the taste. Something comforting about crunching on something salty and savory. :crying:

I agree about not beating yourself up about having a treat! We had this surgery so we could live and eat normally. "normal" people eat chips once in a while or a piece of chocolate etc. I also do eat crackers, bread, pasta cookies occasionally but again I just eat a small amount of it. I dont think people should feel bad or like they are sabotaging themselves for a little bit of something like that once in a while. I mean, regardless of what you eat you are going to lose weight if you are eating under 1000 cals a day ( if you can even manage to get in that much). If you try to make sure you get in healthy stuff for the most part then little amounts of the other stuff should not be an issue.

anyway, thats just my two cents. I have been living llike that after surgery for 6 weeks now and I have never overeaten to the point of throwing up and only once felt a bit overstuffed but that went away in about an hour. I have lost 24 lbs and feel really good. The only problem I notice is that I still eat too fast. Not too much but too fast and I get the hiccups. Looking forward to losing the remaining 36!

cajun- did you have to start all over again with mushies? i know i am still having problems with muching on stuff i shouldn't be. especially at work. those girls have chips, cakes, bagels, and all kinds of junk. i don't have any of the bad of stuff at the house but work is awful.