Interesting numbers/math........

in my case it was 233,000 mini reeses peanut butter cups. so getting so fat over 10 years thats 23,000 peanut butter cups per year. hmmmmm, that sounds high even for me. I must have eaten something else too ............    diane

oh wait, i didn't lose 200 lbs so it was only 12,000 peanut butter cups per year.  still thats about 33 of those little cups per day. some days that was true.  oh well, not any more.  diane

2-3 ****tails per day, excessive, random snacking on hummus, pretzels, kale chips, pita chips, cow cheese, even carrots, and a sedentary lifestyle after hurting my knee made me gain over 100 pounds back. It actually began with a medication I took for 3 months, before getting into bad habits again and lack of exercise. I lost 115 or so about 15 years ago, kept it off for nearly 5, then things went awry. Maintaining that weight loss was extraordinarily difficult for me - a day looked very sparse in the calorie department. Starbucks in the AM, 1/4 to 1/2 sandwich or a salad at lunch, and broccoli for dinner (Cooked with lots of seasonings and a few sprays of olive oil) I also did 3 spinning classes and 3 weight lifting classes, plus a 2.5 hour Sunday gym session. Once I went back to school full time, that schedule was impossible.

I am sharing this because before that time, I had yo-yo dieted FOREVER with very little success, and I felt it so unfair what I had to do, and not do, in order to maintain a healthy BMI. The VSG needs to be my forever maintenance tool, and I know it will be an extraordinary amount of work, but at least I will have something - a tool - on my side. In short, not everyone works the same way, not by a long shot.