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I've been so busy the past few weeks, trying to get my house ready to be on the market and purchasing a new home already that I've completely lost track of me and my journey. I haven't been able to exercise in about 2 months...which I hate because I love to exercise. My eating for the last 4 days has been terrible and I've gained 2 pounds. I am so disappointed with myself. I know that I will get to goal and I'm only 6 months out, and once I'm on the market with the house and settlement is done at the end of this month things will calm down. I vow to stay away from carbs and sugars starting right now.

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Hello

It's really hard to eat the stuff we should not be eating and it seems to go down much easier than the good stuff or maybe that's just me .

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@@lorri716 - life happens...

I am 10 months 2 days post and trying to break into the 170s since before Christmas...

You (and I) both know what we need to do, so stay on track fellow BPer... we got this!

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I went through the process of listing/selling my old house and buying a new house and moving from August through November. On top of that, my sister and her 4 kids had moved in with us in our old house in June and didn't move out until September (so they were living there the whole time we were showing and trying to sell our old house). It all turned my life completely upside down. But the beauty of it is, I came out the other side weighing the same as when I'd gone in. In the past, that amount of stress and being that far out of my routine for 5 months would have caused me to gain a good 50 pounds. But even though I wasn't exercising regularly and I wasn't as meticulous with my food, I didn't GAIN weight, which, for me, was a HUGE win. Sure I didn't lose weight either, but at least I didn't have a whole lot of ground to make up from backsliding. That is the beauty of the tool we've been given. It's still there, kind of doing it's thing, even when we can't use it to its fullest potential. But once we ARE able to get back on track, it so much easier!

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Forgive yourself now and move on. Being disappointed in yourself, while totally understandable, won't help you in the long run.

You're human. Life gets in the way. Just pick yourself up, brush yourself off, forgive yourself and move on. Hang in there!

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You are human and things happen! Just don't let it spiral out of control. Use it as a learning experience. I hope things settle down for you soon!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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