ObesityHelp

Congrats, you are well on your way.  You know that momentary pleasure from food is just that momentary.  Keep focused on why you went thru this surgery and your goals.  Make mini goals that are acheivable in short term to keep yourself motivated.  I do allow myself a taste of things I crave and find that the item either does not live up to the memory or just that taste of the craving item satisfies me.  If you must have something build it into your daily food plan.  Are you on an acid reducer?  They say excess acid in stomach mimics hunger.  Yes I have had Christmas ginger cookies but one seems to do the trick, I don't need  lots to satify me.  My most difficult thing right now is to keep hydrated. Not because I have a hard time drinking but because I am doing so much running around I forget to drink. So watch out for that as well. 
Have a great holiday season and don't beat yourself up it is a difficult thing to do over Christmas but we can't eat huge amounts of anything anyway

 I had some trouble with getting in all my fluids over the christmas season. I had one day when I felt really really awful but I seem to have recovered. So far no noticable stall for me. I didn't weight myself while I was away but I was down when I got home. 

Eating was tough in Toronto. My brother took us out to many restaurants. Luckily he likes to order things family style so I could pick from the entrees the things I knew were on plan. My daughter's birthday is christmas eve and I indulged in a very small cupcake for the celebration. Whoa, that was a bad idea! It did not want to go down but it also refused to come back up. I had to wait it out. I'm still figuring out just how much room I have in my stomach. 

I made myself some homemade cream of mushroom soup when I got home and I discovered that even with pureeing my new stomach does not like mushrooms. 

I am down almost 40lbs. It's not the number of the scale that has me really excited though, my clothes are fitting differently. Even my winter coat is starting to get a loose! I'm still learning how much my stomach can hold and have eated just a little too much more than once, ususally when I am really hungry. I haven't thrown up though, so that's good.

I'm loosing about 1 to 2 lbs per week, one TOM week I usually drop 4 or 5lbs! I'm very happy with that. I keep getting so many compliments on how I am shrinking.
I feel kind of like I had my brain operated on and not just my stomach. I have such a positive attitude and I'm so productive and I've started really liking myself. I feel like a normal person.

I still get hungry but I focus on protien first and if I have room non-strachy veg. I have had a few carbs here and there (potatoes etc.) My new stomach HATES pasta. I might as well have swallowed pebbles it just sits there like it's solid.
I continue to have trouble getting in enough fluids and as such constipation has been a bit of an issues (at least I hope that is the issue)LOL

I drink a decaf coffee every morning with 1/3 of a bottle of protien drink and try to drink 2 800ml bottles of water or crystal light during the day. In the evening I usually have 1 8oz class of water.
I'm having a heck of a time not drinking with my meals. It was such a habit.

I found that the craving slip away by sticking to the plan. When I stray from the plan, the cravings come back. After all the operation was on our stomachs, not out brains!!!