Hi, i've made a sleeve gastrectomy on September 2019, i was so Happy. At the operation time nu weight Is 148 kg, All Is working well. At febbruary my weight was 122kg, but arrive Covid. All close, all the time at home for month beacause was a lockdown here. I'm italian. I start regain weight, One, two, three kilos. On Summer i was 134 kilos, but my body start change, and i have no worry ti wear a swinsuit on holiday. I try to loose weight again, i arrive ti 126,another lockdown and then i gain weight again. On June 2021, i change my dietist, i weight 130 kg, on the end of Summer i was 120, i was so Happy, but i finish the Summer work and i restart gain weight. Now i'm 126 kg, and i don't know what to do. I think It doesn't work, or i'm not good for that. I don't know what to do, i try, but my family don't help me. I know that if i have food ti avoid in fridge, when i stay at home i eat Them, beacause i'm alone, and if i ask not to buy, my father don't listen. I make artistic roller skating, and i'm Happy, i study e when i found something i work. But all that doesn't work. I search help, but i don't know where.

P.s. Sorry for my english, Is not my mothertongue

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Hi Sherry,

You need to get your family on board to support you. Explain to them how hard it is without their support. Its very easy to be tempted to eat food when its there. Could you possibly get your own fridge and cupboard space for your food so that you don't see the other food?

You are still 22kg lighter than when you started so that is a good thing. being in lockdown would be hard we have been very lucky where I live.

Could you start an indoor hobby like art and craft or reading/writing something that will keep your mind off food? also try an app that you can track your calorie in take. I use one called my fitness pal. its easy to use not sure if its available in different languages but worth having a look.

I agree that if you can get your family on board to help support you that would be really great. You may also benefit from a therapist that specializes in eating disorders because it sounds like you may suffer from boredom eating. Basically you are stuck at home and you don’t have things to keep you busy so you just eat. When I was searching for one that is near my home I was told that there are some online websites that have bariatric therapists if you do not have any locally. I don’t remember the sites but maybe someone who responds to this will know them.

I'm study at home, when i not working, and i try to explain to my parents all my difficult, but my father forget the thing i Say to im. I can't eat chicken, beacause i traw up, if I go to shopping for me I bought chicken. I try with a shelf only for me, it work for a little time. And i also try my fitness Pal, it work if I don't become obsessed with the count of calories. I'm complicated, I know, but I work hard for this,and i don't see to much results, and I think I'm loosing my motivation

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Tracking your food intake is definitely important to continue to monitor what you're eating. It sounds like you're eatin out of boredom. Does your surgeon's office offer post-surgical counseling to help you deal with that? Never fear, though, your surgery was successful and you still have the tools you need to lose more weight and keep it off. Try to get your family on-board to support you, but ultimately it's up to you.

I have some support, the fear was only the obsession for the control of food intake, but I try to start something new this year

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