I'm jealous, I'm jealous, I'm jealous!! But also very excited for you, congratulations!!

WOOHOO I have lost 100 lbs..lol!!! Day of surgery 318 Surgery date 8-22-07 Last week 221 lbs This weel 218 lbs Total this week 4 lbs Total loss 100 lbs !!!!!!! Hugs Pamela

Hello Sami Sue, Like you, I am having a hard time not falling back into my old patterns. Night time eating is becoming a real problem. My pouch allows me to eat far too much dinner and then I crave snacks in the evening as well. I try to keep them low cal but it still adds up of course. Last night I ate three servings of homemade chili for dinner! It was low fat, high protein and very tasty but I should not be able to eat three servings of anything. Even if I can eat three servings, I should be strong enough to resist....that is what got me all this extra weight in the first place. Funny thing is that during the morning and afternoon I have little appetite and can eat only small amounts before feeling full. I don't know what the problem is but I can't afford to fail at this and I am going to speak with my psychologist about it this week. If he has any concrete suggestions, I will let you know. Donna Kay

Hello everyone from August 2007 surgery board. I haven't checked in with you guys all that often, I always seem to forget about this board. Anyway, I had surgery Aug 21, 2007 and I am down to 187 lbs since early January. I have gone back up and down from 187 to 192 since then. I realize that I have been house bound with the winter weather in Ohio, but I go to work everyday and run around on Saturdays. I have't been to the gym, so I need to pick that back up, it just GOSH, I was really enjoying the weight just coming off without effort. I am not looking forward to working for the rest of this weight loss! In early January I seemed to have had that moment when my stomach didn't get sick anymore, and I could eat little things and not get sick. So I started nibbling on little things like bread, or a bite of cookie or donut on Friday morning at the office, and low and behold I have stalled. I realize that the weight will continue to come off once I get back into gear, its just frightening to realize that all of the same challenges that I had before surgery are the same problems that I am having after surgery! Does that sound NUTS, does anyone else feel panicked that they have already failed at wieght loss, and worried about keeping up with the wieght loss. I feel like I am always going to need a shrink, and that I may never be able to make the "big life change in eating habits that we all realize this takes". I hate being this helpless to my weight. My husband asked me yesterday if I were still losing weight, and I lied! I said yes of course honey I am losing. He must have realized that I haven't comeing dancing out of the bathroom with a big grin in weeks, and so he is asking. The other issue is that I was back to my old tricks with sweets this weekend, I was holding on to cookies, (three from Cheryls cookies at the mall) to eat when I wanted, and not sharing them. What the HELL was that about, I don't need to hide cookies, I dont' need cookies, I need to kick this weight issue in the $*@ if you know what I mean. OK I want the truth...do any of you every get this way...how many of you have stalled or plautued? Do any of you worry that this weight loss is to good to be true and that something is going to happen to make you fat again? I saw Carnie Wilson on Gone Country tv show this past week. She has gained back a lot of her weight, it looked like almost 60 to 70 lbs that she has gained. That frightens me!!! I really don't want to struggle with weight ever again in my life, I really want this to work. I don't want to hide cookies and feel guilty about it! Ok I am NUTTS. Please write back if your a NUTT too. Thanks for letting me go on and on.. Sami Sue

Ok, I got rid of another 2 lbs (and a half) this week for a total of 129 lbs. At least the scales are moving again. I have only lost 6 lbs in the past month. We bought a Wii this weekend and bowled for like 7 hours yesterday so we are getting lots of exercise and having a blast!