I quit tracking about a month after my surgery. Since my food choices were so limited, it didn't make sense to track the same things every day, especially when I was eating less than 700 calories a day.

I have been fluctuating between 282 and 284 for the last two weeks. This is my first stall and it's playing with my head. I know I need to start tracking my food to make sure that isn't the source of my stall. Do any of you track without using an app? I hate adding new foods or trying to find foods on the apps. It seems like it would be easier just to write it down in a notebook when you have the label right in front of you. Maybe I just need to quit being a whiny baby and realize that this is part of the process.

Help me get back on "track" and tell me how you track your foods.

You're not being intrusive at all. I am afraid that any additional carbs would be a slippery slope, yes. I could completely change out the meats, but I like these okay, so it works for me. It isn't that I don't like the things I eat. I do; that's why I picked them. I don't trust myself and this approach deals with all of my issues.

Ok. Thanks for your candor. I have a lot of figuring out to do. You were already in such a good groove with your diet before surgery. I wasn't. I had the two week preop but really that was all. Now I get why working on this stuff before surgery is so important. There's something appealing about your routine to me. I haven't eaten more than 15-20 carbs for a while now and want to keep it that way. It's so different once you move on to real food!

9 minutes ago, Joann454 said:

Ok. Thanks for your candor. I have a lot of figuring out to do. You were already in such a good groove with your diet before surgery. I wasn't. I had the two week preop but really that was all. Now I get why working on this stuff before surgery is so important. There's something appealing about your routine to me. I haven't eaten more than 15-20 carbs for a while now and want to keep it that way. It's so different once you move on to real food!

And I'll add that my mom, dad, and brother all had bariatric surgery (sleeve, bypass, and band respectively) over the past many years. I have watched them all have success and then go back to their old ways and ultimately fail. (My mom less so than my dad and brother. She has only regained about 30 pounds. They have regained everything.)

I can't fail because I remember the horrible depressed feeling that came about from the myriad of times I have regained weight after a regular diet. I can't even imagine how I would feel if I regained weight after having put my body through the trauma of surgery.

This is as big a part of my approach as the food addiction and weight itself...

blizair09 - You are inspiring! Your meal list is very helpful. Just curious if your family members had the sleeve or bypass?

I really need to do meal prep on Sundays and then my week would be so much easier.

My fitness pal lets you scan the barcode and t finds it automatically.

5 hours ago, shannybananny71 said:

blizair09 - You are inspiring! Your meal list is very helpful. Just curious if your family members had the sleeve or bypass?

I really need to do meal prep on Sundays and then my week would be so much easier.

Thank you. I'm just trying to make the most of this amazing opportunity. And I wish the same success to everyone reading.

My mom had the sleeve; my dad had the bypass, and my brother had the band. As a family, we have all the bases covered!

I use the Baritastic App to track and I like it because you can scan the barcode to put a new item in. Once it's in your list you can favorite it if it's something you eat often.

As for stalls they suck and even as much as all of us know it's part of the process when your in one it's frustrating. I've been in a slow losing pattern for 2 months. I lose a couple pounds in a week (2-4), then stall for 2-3 weeks, lost a couple more pounds and then stall again. I'm 16 pounds from my first goal and I feel like I will never get there right now. I just have to take a breath and stay with it.