I am three months out down over 45 lbs, but I am having a hard time with so many temptations around this time of year. I don't think I mentally prepared for it. I have thrown up a glazed donut, and pushed to eat more than I knew I could on more than one occasion because it is Christmas! Not good. Need more tools to help deal with a sleeve at this time of year!

I'm three months out and I know how you're feeling. Had a Christmas potluck yesterday at work and was able to resist most of everything except I ate the soft part of 1/2 a bagel. I am still refusing to eat sugar though. That was my biggest weakness before.

Years ago I went to some AA meetings with a friend who was trying to get sober. One message they pushed was to not pick up. I use that message myself. I don't say I can't have it. That will make me want it 1000 times more. I just say I don't eat that right now. So far it's working for me. So since I didn't pick that cookie up yesterday since I don't eat them right now, I didn't eat it. Hope this helps a little.

I am about the same and have to say that I didn't have the surgery so that I could never eat anything again I do enjoy a holiday treat once in a while, but just a few bites. This is what life after sleeve should be about...not continued diet and deprivation, which leads to where? Where we came from.

I couldn't eat a glazed doughnut myself. Sugar does not sit well, but it sounds like that is an issue for you as well. How about taking 1/4 the amount and enjoying that and seeing how that sits. This will not throw your calorie goals out the window. This is how I operate in life now.

I had half of a ww flat bread with fondue cheese last night. Previous to surgery I'd have eaten it on french bread and had much more. I enjoyed that with a glass of wine One, not two or three. Life in moderation is not a bad thing.

I do avoid one thing and that is pure candy. Hot tamales type of stuff. Mostly out of fear that it will make me sick but I also broke myself of that habit prior to surgery and don't feel the desire to pick it up again. But if I did want some, I'd have one or two. Not a box...one or two Moderation with out deprivation.

One of the things that has helped me (aside from the stricture that kept me from eating ) is that everyone around me knows about my surgery and my restrictions that go along with it. Word spread pretty quickly that while I do appreciate the thought of being included, I'm okay with being excluded to keep temptations away from me. If it's unavoidable, I take the smallest bit I can, take an appropriate sized bite, smile, talk about how yummy it is and then take it back to my cubicle where it goes straight in the trash.

Thanks you for the great ideas I will implement them this second!