If you are struggling, what are you struggling with?

My current struggles are getting in my water, my protein, and my calcium. I do preplan my food and portion it but I tend to not be able to get it in at once and it ends up being more of a grazing pattern to get it all in?? Not sure the best way to handle it?? Purposely doing 5-6 small meals but then how do i plan the meals in 1/4 cup increments and then how does water work because it takes up your whole day allowing for a half hr before and a 1/2 hr after??? and right now since I am having problems with meats, my protein intake tends to be around 40 which I am just going to have to suck it up and do a shake to get that extra protein.

I realize in time this will get better but I just want to know I am doing the right stuff to get there??

Great Post AMY!!!(as usual!).........  Struggles are always going to be there!  It is all in how you handle them!  I have had my share of struggles and continure to.  My best advice to people would be this:  If you see a struggle make a plan or find out how to overcome it.  It may just mean a baby step at a time but HEY you are moving forward!!! 
HUGS

I don't know if this is a "struggle"... at least not yet.  For some reason, I've noticed the following misc. changes going on with my personal habits and my body:
  - I now am cold, in situations I was never cold before.  Case in point, when I made my first airline flight (about 2 weeks post-op), I just about froze my keister off.  I had to ask the flight attendant to get my hoody sweatshirt out of the jacket closet... and I NEVER have done that before.  I also now run the little fan I keep in my office (and also the fan I keep next to my favorite chair at home) much, much less -- if at all.
 - I have switched from drinking my usual hot Americano with sugar free vanilla and non-fat milk in the morning, to ice tea.  I now keep a picture of ice tea in my refrigerator at all times (instead of paying $$$ for it at Starbucks).
- I now am watching more television shows about food than I did before.  Along with this, I am doing a lot of my own cooking from scratch now -- mainly egg beater omlettes (small).

Hmm... changes...

-Alan

Struggles???  I have many and I'd rather bottle them up and wish they would go away but that's what I have been doing all my life, so I know that dont work!
I get full fast, but feel hungry not long after, so I have a struggle with wanting to graze which is probably why I have been on a MONSTER plateau.  I am 2.5 years post op and havent lost a pound since the 1 yr mark.  Its terribly frustrating.  I was walking 3 miles a day 3-5 times per week and nothing!  Yes I have lost 80 lbs but I am stuck at around 200lbs it fluctuates between 195 - 203.  That is just a number, but I feel like I went through this process to be healthier than this.  There arent many people 5'2" that are healthy at 200lbs.   I feel like this is just one more diet failure among the many throughout my life.  I know that people are judging me, because there are a lot of skeptical people out there re: WLS and they are probably thinking, "I knew it wouldnt work!"
HOWEVER, I am going to beat this.  I am going to work harder at making better choices and more filling meals and when I get hungry in between, I am going to chug water or something.

I have also been having too much alcohol, but that might be a slight addiction transfer?  I need to stop that too!

I am going to do better.  I had surgery for a reason and I am not going to let this food take over my life again. 

THANKS for posting this topic!!

I 've been struggling with just this whole WLS in general. I still feel I made a mistake having this surgery more than two months out even though I have lost 57 lbs. I have a hard time coming on this board and posting about being down. Everyone on this board is so up that I have a hard time letting even my MG friends know how I feel, no one wants to hear others problems, at least that is how I feel. I truely hope that this gets better and I have the same outlook on the WLS as so many of you do. I could go on but will leave it at that.

Tim, my friend, we ALL struggle, we have all faced some measure of frustration or depression or anger along the way.  We've all lost our best friend, our favorite thing - FOOD!   But PLEASE know, we DO want to hear about your struggles, if only to validate them and assure you that things WILL get better!  Never worry about being a "downer" or anything like that - we are here, we go to coffees, FOR SUPPORT, and TO SUPPORT!  We "get it" - regardless of how wonderful your family may be, they probably DON'T get it. 

So please - make yourself continue to come to coffee, post here as often as you feel inspired to do so, the good, the bad AND the ugly!   Ya know, "they" say the less you want to come, the more you NEED to come!  And I, for one, am PUMPED to watch you shrink!  But if you don't show up, well, shoot - I'll have to watch Paul and Tracy and Alan and (hopefully ME!) and Rick and Elena - well, there's a whole mess of us MG folk who are still on the ride.   And we LIKE you!  We really really LIKE you!!!