A week ago tomorrow I began my first vacation since my surgery. Well more of a stay-cation. My sons birthday was last weekend and we had company in from out of town. I haven't been tracking faithfully, and I have been eating bad stuff, although it is only a small percentage of what I would have eaten pre-surgery, I feel horribly guilty. I am three months out and I am scared that I will fall back into my old habits. I hope when I start back to work I will get back on the wagon. Any advice and support is greatly welcomed and appreciated. Please!!

What happened in the past stays in the past. You can't change it so let It go and forgive yourself. No one is perfect.start again tomorrow and try again. The wagon is waiting for you.

Do you have to wait until you start back to work to get back on the wagon? Could you think about hopping back on TODAY instead? Even just eating smaller amounts of our old, unhealthy food and keeping old eating habits can lead us into long-term trouble. These early months and up to that first year are the most ideal time to get those new good habits formed and be really practicing and enforcing them so they automatically become part of your lifetime eating style. And they WILL BECOME AUTOMATIC with practice. Then, there's plenty of time for the rest of your life to allow yourself to be more flexible with your eating choices.

But the more you keep guilt in your head, the harder it's going to be to move forward and start training that brain of yours to make better choices for yourself. Love what Luvin_Life125 said--your wagon is waiting!!! Sometimes we just have to be gently reminded that our power is in us--we just have to pull it out and use it.