8 years later- Still Seeking Sanity

Aug 28, 2009

 I said the same thing last year, and I had a year of fighting the truth.  I am ready now to admit...although I lost two hundred pounds, maintained it for 5 years, I am fat again.  I have in the past couple of years gained weight until I am now considered obese at 214.

I have revisited the tools I used to lose and maintain the weight then, and have written myself a contract for the upcoming eight years, assuming I have that many left.  I am using the Weight Watcher Program because its the closest to what I did after my surgery, when I resumed eating after recovering from the gastric surgery.

I know this will likely be unsettling for anyone waiting for or recently having surgery.  Sorry to tell you the bad news, but the surgery will not cure your weight problem.  Many, if not most of those having had the surgery, lost a lot of weight, perhaps even changing lifestyles and maintaining the weight for awhile, will  go through a period where weight is gained again. In my case it happened when life changed, I had surgery, problems with family and work caused lifestyle changes and I didnt adjust my eating to reflect a loss of activity.  I also then began to forget that it was through exercise and healthy living that I was able to manage my stress.  I sto;pped the very things that had assured my success.    Trust me after a few years, you CAN overeat.  I know, however, how to do this.  And my surgery is still there to help.  So I have returned to "hard" food, stopped grazing, stopped sugar (yes dumping stops after awhile) and have return ed to walking and going to the gym. And prayer...lots and lots of prayer
I will be ok.
Hope you will be too

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