You say you're tracking your protein and calories in your head. Are you logging them physically?

Are you getting enough protein?

Congrats on figuring out what is going on and taking steps to reverse it before things get out of control!

Thanks for your post. I needed to hear that I am not the only person on the planet struggling to keep the weight off after WLS. I too am getting back on the wagon today. I have been indulging in far too many carbs lately and it is showing on the scale. We can do it!

I'm right there with you! Today is one of those times that I'm so so hungry! My head says so and tummy. LOL I like the 100 carbs a day idea. I hope you don't mind I will copy your idea. It will be a year wednesday for me all is good but I'm battling "I'm starving" all the time. I don't want to mess up a good thing. I love water but it is getting harder and harder to drink it like I was. started some low cal and carb drinks. That is helping some. Keep up your "Dusting yourself off after you fall off the wagon" blogs!!!!!!!!

I feel the same way. All of sudden. I been so hungry after a year of feeling no hunger. It been a year. I can pretty much eat what I want. My Compulsive eating habits are coming back. So I have to watch myself all the time. Especially about mindless eating. It been a year. I lost 175 pounds. I am down to 210 pounds. I am so afraid of regaining. I have not lost anything in a month. I am trying to be careful. I ask myself every If I can be one of the people who does not regain weight.

"The cold hard truth is I will always be waging this war of mind over matter with my body (funny how that sounds)" you are not alone. It is a constant battle for me everyday too!

Hi you sound like you are doing good. I am proud of you. What tips can you share that are working for the head hunger? Hugs and prayers.
Oh I go to my psych eval tomorrow any tips plsss thx..

i feel you .... i am going up and down by 2-4 lbs with no steady loss for 2 1/2 months now and with 25-30 lbs to go to reach my goal.
so frustrated, and hungry all the time. some headh hunger for sure, but i am not getting full and or satisfied as i was before. my sleeve surgery was aug. 8, 2012, and i was doing really well up until about 2 1/2 months ago when all of a sudden food became important to me again and i think about it every waking moment. i have tried all the tips given by docs, people on here, etc and nothing is working. up until the 2 1/2 months ago, i could have been the poster child for doing it all right...and now, well i am doing a few things wrong just to see if the fruitiness of being me might make it work.
i have so many health issues, and now to top it off exercising is extremely difficult and painful due to these health issues. but, that wasn't helping anyway, as the stall started while i was still doing the exercise like clockwork.
i don't know what to do, other than stay the course.
just very frustrating...and to top it off, never had skin sagging issues with weight loss before but now, EVERYTHING, and i mean EVERYTHING has gone south. : (
thrilled and proud of the 80-85 lbs lost, but sure to want to get to my goal.
best to you and hope you find answers that you can share, and i will do the same.
God bless.

Way to climb back on! One of my favorite low carb desserts is sugar free pudding with fat free whipped cream. Super yummy and relatively guilt-free. If you put it in the freezer, it just like ice cream. Another yummy low-carb treat is PB2, the chocolate flavored one. It's just like a Recee's Cup in your mouth, for only 45 calories for 2 tablespoons. Keep it up!!!

I know how you feel. I was never going to be a post op who didn't follow the rules. Hahaha, never say never. My slippery slop began around Easter, and has snowballed. Those carbs will get me every time. Rant: why don't we crave what's good for us?!? My problem is I love food, and yes, I am a carb addict. Time for a serious detox. I even feel crappy when eating carbs. You'd think that would be enough to stop me from eating them. On a good note: I'm so glad you're feeling better!!!

Personally I got rid of all the bad carbs out of my life, they were causing me to gain weight and feel sick and bloated daily. Within a month I was back down to nearly 140 and feel so much better. I got rid of the protein bars I loved so much, I don't want to crave any food ever, I want to walk in a grocery store and walk out with nothing like I did yesterday at Trader Joe's because nothing appeals to me. It really is a fight for your life, good luck to you.

I am doing this without surgery (so averaging only 10 pounds lost per month so far) and I have had to swear off all white carbs (bread, rice, etc) and all snacks (chips etc) to kill off hunger. I keep three types of snacks in the house for in betweens ... dry roasted almonds, Lily Orange Biscotti, and Atkins Dark Chocolate Decadence bars. These things are very low in carbs and quite delicious, so I am happy to grab a small portion and a diet Dr. Pepper and that 40-50 cals (or 150 for the bar) kills hunger for hours. I would not be able to resist if the cupboards were bare of these good snacks ....

Again, thank you for your honesty about your journey and for sharing your best and worst moments with us. This is a life-long journey and we as recovering food addicts will stubble and sometimes fall, but we gotta just keep getting up, dusting ourselves off and getting back on that horse. Our WLS gave us a tool and we must work that tool with proper diet and exercise. Unfortunately WLS didn't fix our brains and purge the cravings and head hunger.
Good luck with your recommitment to your moderate low-carb eat plan and best of luck with your continued journey.

I haven't been to OH in months. But today must be my day. I think you were writing this just for me! I have fallen off of the wagon too. I want to get back on, but I have had a tough time facing up to it. But, I have been thinking about it a lot over the past week or so.

Ever since this past Christmas, I have not been eating correctly. Not enough solid protein, lots of bad carbs and no exercise. Fortunately, my sleeve has kept me from gaining weight. But, I could have been down to my goal by now.

I am really surprised about this hunger. I have the same problem and was not expecting that at all. Though I am sorry that you and other people have this problem, it is a relief for me to read about it. Also, the head hunger. That is SO AWFUL. It is really painful (emotionally) to deal with it.

Anyway, I think I need to go have a good cry, and then get my rear in gear. Just do what I have to do.

Thank you for your inspiration! And Good Luck to you too!

Hi, thanks for posting. I am 2 years and 2 months post op and I know I'm definitely done with my honeymoon phase also and it is sad but its the beginning of our reality, the hard/easy part. We have the tool to stay on track we just have to work it. I haven't put any weight back on Thank GOD and I hope that I don't. Keep up your good work, we all have the strength inside of us to overcome!!!

I am 1 1/2 yrs out from surgery, and it's not as easy as it was a few months ago. I've had pretty much all of the problems everyone has listed on this page so far, and my weight started to creep up. It didn't help that I had an internal hernia that reuqired surgery and had to stop exercising for 2 or 3 months. I've gone back to basics, and write everything down that I put in my mouth, including 1 or 2 chocolates or any little snack. I used to realize how many calories these little things have, but I forgot over the last few months. Now I'm remembering again. It hurts when I have a goal of 1000 calories and 90 grams of protein to look at my journal and realize I wasted 150 of those precious calories on garbage (even though it tastes so good!) I tried the quest bar, brownie flavor, and it has 20 grams of protein for 170 calories and only 5 non-fiber carbs. So this is now my daily snack. I reward myself if I stay on course all day. There are other flavors, and I think I will start experimenting with differnt ones. I still have 24 pounds to my goal, so I have no intention of giving up anytime soon!