have been gone for a long time

Hey Alabama Board,

I have been gone for a really long time and I need help. I have gone back to stress eating and have gained about 30 pounds back...I don't know how to get back on track...Please OH family help me.....Love and hugs ......Renee

Good to see you back Renee.  Go back to the basic's and cut out all the sugar and carb's and start back with the protein and at least 64 oz of water, no drinking 30 minutes before or after meals, take your vitamins, calcium, and B12.  Hope this will help you some.  Good luck you can do it.

Hey Renee--you came to the right place.  You do know what to do--you've done it, and you've been sucessful.  Do what Louise said....and EXERCISE.  It is the most important part of long term weight maintenance.

Now, get your butt back on track and come here for support--we're here for you!

Kim

Renee the thing that probabaly helps me the most with weight loss is just not bringing it in the house to begin with. I used to always have lots of sweets, chip, or ice cream in the house. Now I will have things like that if I am out and want it sometimes, but I don't buy it and bring it home usually. If I don't see it in the pantry all the time then I'm not tempted all the time. So if I am in the mood for something like that I will have to drive 11 miles to the grocery store to get it. That deters me! Lol.

Good luck hun!

Hi Renee,

Welcome home!!!  I have thought about you often and wondered how you were doing.

I know you went through a terrible loss and that can add to the stress eating.  Personally, when I started to regain, I realized I had not dealt with some of my head issues...the reasons I stress eat.  Counseling helped alot.  I found that I had never stopped the night eating...waking after a couple of hours and eating...all night long. 

I did that throughout my recovery from WLS...but all I could eat was SF Popsicles so it didn't affect my weight loss.  When I was able to  eat again, I started eating other 'legal' or somewhat 'legal' things but eating thing all night long the calories added up and the weight piled on.  I went from my low of 150 back up to 218.  Going over 200 was terrifying.

I did not want to take a sleeping pill for fear of continuing the night eating.  I had heard how some people eat, call others, and even drive on Ambien and Lunesta and don't remembeit.  I didn't need anything like that.  The doctor put me on an additional antidepressant...Trazadone (sp) that is used to help one sleep.  I  knew someone else who used it and assured me it was fine.  I started on it and over the next few months I was back down to 175...a comfortable weight.  I don't always take the Trazadone and I have gained about 15 lbs again.  I was holding steady between 178-182 and in a size 14.  I have eased up to the high180s and even tipped the scale at 192.6 this morning fully clothed. (I usually weigh in my birthday suit)  That has my attention again, so I know I have to get back on track with my sleeping.

Find out what your issue is and find a way to deal with it.  That way you don't have to really diet, just eat for the right reasons and it will come off.  This is my opinion...I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on tv!!    I just wanted to let you know that it isn't always discipline...it is sometimes the reason we eat and the reason we eat what we eat when we eat it.

I hope this has been some help to you.  It really is good to see you back on the Bama Board.  Let us know how it is going.  I KNOW you can get those 30 lbs off.  Good luck! 

Renee, there is nothing more I can add to the suggestions because they are all awesome, but I do want to say it is so good to see you.  I have thought about you much over the last years and I know that your situation was a very hard one.  You have the strength and the courage in you to do this.  I know you do!!