HOLIDAY Weigh in!!!!

Consult weight: 368 Day of Surgery: 300.8 Last Week: 192.6 Today: 190.8 Total loss: 177.2 Since last week: 1.8 pounds "Keep it comin', Lubs!"

We had company this weekend and ate out for almost every meal for 2 days. Very bad. I was up a lb. yesterday for my weigh-in. Yesterday I got back on track, and this morning (no, I don't usually weigh two days in a row, usually only once a week) I was down just about half a lb. I'm not going to sweat it...but it disappointed me in myself. Consult weight: 254 Day of Surgery: 218 Last Week: 127.8 Today: 128.8 Total loss: 125.2 Since last week: +1 pound

Don't feel bad about yourself. We will all go through this type of weekend throughout the rest of our journey. They key is getting back on the horse and renew your commitment to sticking to program. That has always been my challenge in the past. Just get back on the horse Amy. Everything else is the past and wasted energy. Have a great week. Heidi

Thanks Heidi. It just scares me that I can eat as much as I can.

I think you bring up a very good discussion. I can eat much more now also. I have to measure when I can but sometimes that is impossible. If I measure at home my eye is much better calibrated for when I go out (also my stomach). Even if I don't know weight I try and stay a one cup. I do sometime eat more than one cup. I can eat much more of salad than anything else. This is the challenge of maintenance for me. I can not go back to my old habits.

I do just fine when I am preparing my own meals at home. I weigh and measure everything still. When I go out? Things just taste so good that I seem to be unable to limit myself as I know I should...I try to make good choices, but still...

I call it food crack. I can't seem to put down really good food and tend to eat too much of it. I try self talk, like your not hungry and it's your foodie addiction but I always seem to have a few more bites than I should. Then my stomach hurts and I'm mad at myself. I worry that the farther out I go the more bites I will take.

You and me both.

Highest: 312 DOS: 295 Today 185.5 Last week: 185 (+.5) Total lost: 126.5 Since surgery: 119

Shari, your loss is fantastic! I stayed the same, AGAIN. And yesterday, most everything I ate came back up. I had 2 deviled eggs for breakfast - they stayed down just fine. I ate some shredded pork from lunch- up it came. Then tried some tuna salad for dinner - up it came. Not a good day for my pouch. Started w/ sf oatmeal today. So far, so good. Will have cottage cheese w/ splenda peaches for lunch - hoping it will stay down. I did get some good news. All of my labs came back within normal limits. I'm going to see my primary in June for testing regarding the perimenopause. Still cannot figure out why I feel so bad. Hope all of you are losers...