Regain

Hi everyone

I'm new to the board, looking for a partner in crime to help with motivation on losing the regain weight. Always more fun doing this together.

Anyone interested? Have an amazing day all!

You have already taken the hardest step by saying enough is enough and now I want to get back on track. I maintained 118-125 for over 10 years after losing 200 pounds. Due to a personal tragedy I gained and hit the 190 mark a year ago. After several starts it finally clicked and I am back to goal losing 70 pounds of regain. Here are some steps that helped me and I hope they will help you too! You may have several starts and stops but don't give up, don't beat yourself up. IT WILL CLICK!!! Our tool works if we work the tool and get back to the basics.

Planning/Preparing

Remember when we were preparing for surgery? How many meetings, classes and such did we attend? We were told the more prepared we were the better our chances were for success. And they were right. Go through the house, car and work place and get rid of trigger foods. Stock up on foods that will keep you on track. I removed every bad carb/sugar temptation and replaced it with lots of protein, veggies, grains and fruits.

Journaling

Get back to journaling. This will help you identify when you feel like eating, stress factors and any triggers in your life. Once you identify these factors, this will help you put tools in place to keep you from eating. It became clear I was not taking time for me anymore. I worked my day job and then spent the rest of my time caring for my husband. It was easy to reach for fast, prepackaged food. Since I purged my home I have to eat clean as there are no other options LOL

Use a tool to track you're eating and exercise like Getting Started with Health Tracker. Once I started to track ever bite and drink it became clear why I had gained.

Goals/Rewards

Make a list of goals for yourself. Make them realistic and small. Some of mine were move more, purge all junk from my home, eat more protein. If you didn't make a Weight Loss Surgery bucket list when you first had surgery do it now. GREAT reminder of all the things you can enjoy in life after losing weight.

Food

In general, a long term post-weight loss surgery eating plan includes foods that are high in protein, and low in fat?, calories, and sugar. Important, vitamins and minerals are provided as supplements. (if you had a different surgery adjust this to your food plan).

Water

Water is our Best Friend. I have to say I never went back to pop or any bad drinks, however I was drinking tea like crazy. What is wrong with drinking tea? I was either using sugar or 3 equals and 3 sweet n lows per 32 ounce glass. I found once I started carrying one of the metal bottles of water to keep it cold I drank water all day.

MOVE!

I can't say enough about how key this was for me. The reason I kept my weight off for almost 10 years was no matter what, I kept moving. If I could not go to the gym I would walk. Grab a cart and walk all the isles at your local box store. I loved Zumba, bootcamp workouts, lifting weights. When I stopped, the weight started coming back. So for me I am starting slow to avoid injury by walking and using some of the workouts on my Demand TV. Find something you love to do and it won't feel like a pain in the *** to do daily.

Support

If it's an option "run" don't walk to a support group. Come here on OH daily for support and participate in one of the food threads. It helps you be accountable and also great ideas for food prep.

Keep me posted on how you are doing.

I'm game. I'll be 10 years out July 8th. I regained 14 lbs. and took off 11 lbs. then 2 lbs. came back. I know what I should do but don't always do it.....obviously.

For instance, today I attended a meeting at church and was new to this group. Of course, dessert was served. Everyone took the Blueberry Bars. It was very sweet and made me a little sick for awhile. It wasn't enough to dump, but just a little uncomfortable.

Im def interested in being ur partner in crime. Im new to I cant even figure out how to post to the board lol my surgery date is Aug. 1, 2018 Im getting nervous

Hi Melanie

Welcome to OH! If you need help with anything, let me know and I would be glad to help!

Regards,

Kathy

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Hi! And welcome.

You'll find a lot of support here for losing any regain. I'm getting close to 10 years out and have been here a lot of that time. I've had to lose big regains myself. Twice. Because I'm a little slow that way, lol.

You're post didn't give much information though. How far out are you? How much regain are you looking at? Do you know the cause? The more we know about you the more specific we can be; people regain for a multitude of reasons. My own personal reason was that I ate too much!

If you haven't done it already, use the search function and type in regain. You'll get a slew of stuff to wade through. There's also a group here called Back on Track Together that specifically targets regain and such. And we have some members here who have written excellent posts on regain and I'm hoping one or two of them will pop in.

Good Luck. You can do this.

oh and PS: adding an avatar and your surgery information will help you in here. just a heads up.

I have to learn the board, that is true. I posted a pic thinking it was to my avatar, but see it is just a photo post under info about me. I will work on getting those things done to give more info about where I am at as you stated, thanks for the help!

Hi Bee,

Welcome to OH! We are so happy to have you hear. Let me know what I can do to help. To upload your avatar click the pink box with the + sign in the upper right hand corner and click upload photo.

Let me know if I can help with anything else.

Regards,

Kathy

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My photo uploads but then nothing. Hmmm

Hi Bee,

Your photo on your profile did upload, I am seeing it 4 times. Are not seeing what I am?