OMG, what is wrong with me?? Have I gone nuts!!? I got hungry and thought ok I'll have a bowl of ice cream. Why? That damn gallon has been in the freezer torturing me for weeks. I thought to myself, the faster I eat it, the faster it's gone and not torturing me. I know, that makes no since. My mind somehow had me convinced that if I ate the ice cream it would make my weight loss easier!! I had 3 HUGE bowls!!! I am stuffed full of ice cream and feel like crying. It's too late, I can't rewind time and change my decision. I must have had 1000 calories of ice cream. I am going to gain 5 lbs in one day!!! I have no self control!! Why couldn't I just stop? I know why, it was the creamiest, sweetest, most delicious ice cream ever!! (it came from Braum's) Every bite was heavenly, until my stomach felt like bursting. My brain flew out the window for about 20 mins while I ate. HELP ME!!!! :cry

Hamu, all I can say is been there, done that. I have several of those t-shirts.

Look, it won't kill you and even if you DO gain 5 pounds those pounds will come right back off. Ice cream is God's gift to humans and once in a while we just have to indulge!

If it really feels bad to you, just try to remember how you feel right now the next time it calls your name. And you already know that having it in the freezer isn't a good idea for you, so.... (you know what to do).

Look at this this way: banded you had three bowls of ice cream FOR dinner. Pre-band you might have had three bowls of ice cream AND dinner! You're way ahead of the game, right?

Hamu, Right now I am no help to you but we can sit there together and go on.

I had a medium strawberry cheescake Blizzard of all things.. For me it's stress and that time of month..

It's okay to fall off the wagon once in a while. Don't beat yourself up! We are human and the good thing is that you are aware of what you did and can learn from this. Just start back over. Tomorrow is a new day! Keep a positive attitude.

woo-who! ice cream for dinner!

You are not on a diet. You haven't failed anything. Like Alex said, you only aid ice cream for dinner, you didn't have ice cream and dinner for dinner.

It isn't like you killed anybody, or robbed a bank, or insulted a nun or someone's Grandma.

The good news is that even if you do gain 5 pounds, you don't have to keep them. Thnk of it like you just invited someone you like for dinner. In this case, that someone was ice cream.

Please be KIND to yourself.

As I'm reading this I just sucked down a sonic shake...I have no control either! It was really good! That's it! Back onto the bandwagon...I'm hoping this is easier after I get a fill... But it's true... I would have eaten dinner and then ate the ice cream before.

Yeah! I would have eaten the ice cream and dinner before the band, I forgot about that. I guess it's good that I made it dinner instead of making a real dinner. Ya know, I am going to cheat every once in a while, because I'm only human after all. But, I definately have to limit those cheatings to less than once a month!! I wonder if that's realistic??

Thank you for the support! I feel much better now. Now let me go eat that chocolate that has been torturing me....Just Kidding!!

Since we are not dieting, YOU CANNOT CHEAT!

It is a completely different mind set. You don't have to deprive yourself of anything. There is no "being good" or "being bad." There is only "making better food choices overall" and "smaller portions."

you know sometimes when I am really filled tight a few spoonfuls of ice cream is fine... With my last fill four weeks ago I actually really was on liquids and softs for almost a week and wound up eating a whole pint of PHISH FOOD Ben and Jerry's. I had not eaten anything really for days anyway and was watching Oprah and kept digging in....need I say more? My daughter yelled "Mom! you just ate the whole pint !!" I was shocked I got it down !!! Now having said that I have PB"d on one spoonful of ice cream other times ! Isn't that weird???? Don't beat yourself up. When you get regular fills and are losing regularly like I am (thank goodness) those slips don't mean too much. I have days when I am soooo tight in the morning I can't even eat until dinner time. Other months I was different. WHen you achieve a real restriction from being filled you will realize you may not be able to do that very often anyway....Unless you watch Oprah with Ben and Jerry I guess.....LOL

Hamu, you've received some great comments here. I just wanted to add a few words for you and Kelly, because Ben & Jerry are two of my favorite guys (since I don't see much of Ernest & Julio these days). Most B&J ice cream is 300 calories per serving; four servings per pint. So a whole pint -- and for me, that used to be the size of my real serving -- is 1200 calories. I believe that you need 3500 extra unused calories to make a pound.

I am still the ice cream queen, even after banding. I eat a lot less of it than I used to, but I still love the stuff. You can eat ice cream and still lose weight! Just don't make a habit of hanging out with Ben & Jerry on a regular basis; like certain friends we all have, they're fine to visit occasionally but you don't want to see too much of them. Ever since I stopped buying cartons of ice cream I've done a lot better. I just keep frozen fruit bars and fat-free Fudgsicles in the fridge -- if I'm craving something else, I make myself go out and buy one scoop. It's not perfect bandster behavior, but it's a way of taming the beast.