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I agree with Laureen, on both counts!
Especially since you are only a year out.

Nan

I agree...and yours is a perfect example!  This is a SUPPORT group forum.  We do NOT cut each other down by calling each other stupid or by demeaning anyone in any manner.  If you are above all of us and feel the need to judge others then you should leave the forum and find a different outlet for your frustrations.  This is a place of compassion, support and love for one another.  When one of us falls off the horse we are all here to help lift them back in the saddle. Best of luck to my fellow weight loss buddies.  You can do it! 

If it is to be, it is up to ME!

Wow - what a nasty post!

Let me see - I've been reading your posts. I'm amazed you are acting judgmental of the OP and her struggles (much further out than you I might add) when in your own posts you:

1. State you were unemployed since three months before surgery, and then later say you got fired because of your surgery - hmm - which was it?

2. Say you are a nurse and have been for years and then spell "laparoscopic" as laperscopic." Hmmm.

3. Admit your parents didn't want you in their lives, even though your father was dying and you didn't attend your own daughter's college graduation.

4. State that not only are you employed, but your husband doesn't want to get a job either, that he sleeps on the couch and smokes dope all day.

5. Admit that you were eating lots of bad carbs at 4-5 months out.

6. Eating things like pork chops and corn on the cob, english muffins with jam, sweets, bad carbs.

You know what they say about "people who live in glass houses?"

Let's see how you are doing several years out, okay? In the meantime, get off your high horse and worry about your own problems before you come on here and write such a nasty post to someone looking for help. You have NO idea how much harder this is going to get.

Well aren't your posts nice!   NOT

Call someone stupid who never did anything to you and you're going to get a reaction. The OP was just looking for help. It was unbelievably nasty.

No matter how anal you are about your food, calories, fat, carbs, protein, there is always an opportunity for each of us to slip off the wagon.  We are all human, the goal is to get back on the wagon and don't let anyone lure you off.

And to Alaskagrammy - all my thoughts and support are winging their way to you! We had our surgery the same year and I sure know how hard it can be once we get this far out.

You can do it! Try to get in a support group. That's the one thing that helps me so so much. I'm actually in two. If you can't find a bariatric support group in your area, OA has meetings almost everywhere. Go there. Just get from support from people who understand the psychological component and how really difficult this is long-term.

The one thing I have found that really really helps is to limit or stop all simple carbs. It really helps with hunger.

All my prayers!

Let's see she had her surgery 3 years ago and never bothered to read this site or have any other support site. Well good for her, but if she bothered to take two minutes she would have  quickly seen that many people share her problem and that she is not alone. she does not talk about follow up with her MD. I feel as if this is not a true poster.
Now to continue, she goes on to state she is eating whatever she wants doen't drink fluid and is not following the rules. Seems to me as if she has already solved her problem.  Now if she is looking for support on how to get back on the wagon, or just wanting to rant I would not give the same answer. She is just whining, and whiners are just stupid.
Did you ever think that maybe I was having a bad day and was taking it out on the poster. Where is my tea and sympathy??

I think you are being really judgmental of the OP.  I think it was probaby really hard to admit she's having trouble.  Why do you keep calling the OP stupid? It's really really mean.  It's people like you who make it difficult for people on here to ask for help.