Hello all!! I'm just looking for advice and tips, I am 4 months out and have lost about 53 pounds. I am very happy with everything but myself. I am so disappointed in myself because I often find myself eating the wrong things necessary for weight loss. I have done well to avoid anything that may harm my pouch but not so great with foods to avoid for weight loss. My vices are tea and ice cream. Even though there are many I can't tolerate, there are plenty I can. I just don't want to have done this for no reason and end up right back where I was. What have you guys done to ensure your success. How do you maintain a healthy diet? Thanks!!

Hello all!! I'm just looking for advice and tips, I am 4 months out and have lost about 53 pounds. I am very happy with everything but myself. I am so disappointed in myself because I often find myself eating the wrong things necessary for weight loss. I have done well to avoid anything that may harm my pouch but not so great with foods to avoid for weight loss. My vices are tea and ice cream. Even though there are many I can't tolerate, there are plenty I can. I just don't want to have done this for no reason and end up right back where I was. What have you guys done to ensure your success. How do you maintain a healthy diet? Thanks!!

First congratulations on the weight loss.

Second, if you are eating ice cream, why do you even have it around?

When you say tea is a vice, what do you mean? Are you drinking sweet tea with sugar? Are you drinking caffeine? There are lots of substitutions for tea: try herbal infusions, or decaf tea.

I am four months out and still focused on the basics: eating Protein first, getting at least 100 grams of protein a day, and drinking 64 oz of Fluid a day.

I try to choose lean and lower fat Proteins and avoid starches.

I am also in the pool almost every day the weather allows.

If you need some motivation, try to

regroup and revisit why you want to lose the weight.

You get to decide how well you want to follow your program.

Thanks, I think revisiting why I did it in the first place may be key!!

You can't eat what you don't buy. Don't even bring ice cream into the house and you won't be tempted or able to eat it.

Stay away from sweet tea. Find something else to sweeten it with - stevia, monkfruit, whatever. You have to think of sweet tea as poison and you wouldn't drink poison.

If you blend a protein shake with extra ice, the texture is just like ice cream. I agree don't by it, or try the sugar free versions. Ice cream is a slider food.