Well, what can I say. I had surgery a year ago on March 17th. I lost around 75 pounds and was very strict until the holiday season began in November. To make a long story short, I have gained 20 lbs. since then, and stopped exercising. I feel completely out of control and feel as if my mind is blocking me from getting back on track. Has anyone else had this experience? I really need some advice from those who have had the same or similar problem. Please help.

I fight still to get enough liquids in.... I may have to do that someday... but getting enough is still my battle.... as I am new still to the surgery. I drink as much as I can.... and the sloshy feeling sometimes is bleh.... I as of yet don't track because I know its not quite as much as I need to get in.... Still a work in progress for me to get the liquids in.... and enough of them.... I make my gator aide... I posted the recipe here somewhere or another....

and weigh ALL food. nothing goes in me that is not weighed aside from liquids like Water and gator aide.

I weigh my Gatorade too. Not that I drink it often, since I don't want to drink my calories. But when I do long runs for my marathon training, I have to drink G2 to replenish my electrolytes and I do weigh it so I can accurately track it.

This seems redundant for me. I track Fluid ounces for liquids.

Well yeah, but unless you are pouring them into a marked container or filling a specific size container, how do you figure out ounces other than weighing? I buy the big bottles of G2 and fill my hydration belt bottles with G2 and ice. So weighing the bottles as I fill them is the only way to track the calories.

Liquid measurements are different than weight measurements. A bottle of water might be 16oz by volume but that doesn't mean it weighs 16ozs.

Liquid measurements are different than weight measurements. A bottle of Water might be 16oz by volume but that doesn't mean it weighs 16ozs.

8 Fluid ounces of water weighs pretty much exactly 8 ounces. Since Gatorade and G2 are both like 99% water, I'm comfortable just weighing them in ounces for the purposes of calorie tracking.

liquid measurements are different than weight measurements. A bottle of Water might be 16oz by volume but that doesn't mean it weighs 16ozs.

Yes, it does. Water weighs 1 oz wt. per oz of volume.

That doesn't hold true for other liquids. All I was trying to say is that volume and weight measurements are not interchangeable.