I'm nearly 3.5 months post-sleeve & have been doing so well. This sleeve is helping me live in moderation--I walk a couple of times a week & stick to my meal plan, but still have a bite or 2 of things I'd like. So far, I've lost around 65lbs, but yesterday, I got kinda scared b/c I felt like I went back to some old eating habits, just snacking on all kinds of things that are not on my meal plan. I've come so far & don't want to go back to the old eating habits that paved my journey to the sleeve!!! Yesterday, I had agreed to go to lunch w/ someone who is a bit toxic who's been asking me to get together....after that is when all the snacking started. I swear, toxic people kinda drip in toxicity & l left that lunch w/ some of it on me!!! I'm now vowing that I'm not spending time w/ people who don't lift me up & who are stressful to be around! I had made up that it wouldn't be nice of me to pass on that lunch, but I tell you, agreeing to be around toxic folks is like self abuse! I so don't want to go back to unhealthy eating patterns!

Edited April 19, 201610 yr by theladyslipper

well then!

maybe an extra walk for penance? :-) no?

hang around us, we'll try to lift you up instead.

You realized what happened and you learned from it, score one for Team LadySlipper!

You got this!

I have tried to eliminate everything associated with before surgery, and I have found that the people are more critical parts of the past than the foods. After all, I believe, in a certain way, food choices were influenced by circumstances of life, within a few key confines of availability and lifestyle. I am making sure to indulge in things I love, albeit with a very strong emphasis on things that have come to me since surgery, to be sure I am living in the present and not the past. I have met better people as well as better foods!