Sliding down the slippery slope, all hope lost?

Recognizing what you are doing is the first step and posting here for help and encouragement is what you need to do.  I imagine that you will receive a lot of support and ideas to help you emrbrace your tool again.  Life is difficult and temptations are real. 

I am three months out and I too have put in my plan not to eat anything that is not on my surgeons plan and I pray that I stick to that. 

I have the tools to do what needs to be done but I can't leave them in a box and not use them.  Perhaps I am more fortunate because I don't have children at home, so no goodies.  I do have to go to the grocery store, and to different functions with outside activities and here is what I say when I am looking at food items that I want but know I can't have...." There is no nutritional value in that, cake, pie, fried chicken" and it gets me through, a reminder of what I don't want to do, where I don't want to go.

Pause and think about the choices, work it out in your head, go from the start, "if I eat this particular food what will it do for me".   Take care and breathe.

Thank you so much all, for your encouraging words! I do feel better about it all after reading your tips and tricks and indeed: the mind is a powerful thing and I must not let the negative thoughts get the better of me...

will think about keeping a long scale-break, maybe a few weeks of just focussing on living healthy and not on the numbers, will do me good. However I have the (irrational) fear that if I do not weigh often I will have gained.

 

Try to avoid the scale. You are doing great by admitting the problem and I can sure relate because I too had gotten into the bad habit of carbs. I have really gotten a grip and it's been hard not to weigh every day but I'm holding to once a week and only planning on 1/2 pound per week so I don't get too discouraged. So it will take me three months to lose the six pounds I want to get rid of - so what? And, I will tell you that after a few days of no bread, sweets, etc, I am not craving nearly as badly.
You are a winner - make that a loser!
Hugs,
Lana

i don't really have anything to add other than i'm right there with you. pm me if you want to try and support each other through this.

and also just out of curiosities sake, do wls patients over there lost and maintain the weight loss like we in the us with the lack of rules?

well that's the thing. Most of them do not lose as much as you guys and they tend to be less able to keep it off, but only marginally so. I guess a lot of people here strand around 70% EWL and are considered a succes, while I have the IDEA (maybe wrongfully so) that in the US people tend to lose more.

I however wanted to lose as much weight as possible in the first year so i tried to adhere some US rules, which can be quite difficult in a country where carbs are normal ;-)

*hugs*

You'll get there. I'll kick you in the butt if you want, but frankly I can't possibly kick your butt any harder than you are kicking your own butt.

Kick the carb habit, detox from carbs, tough it out during the withdrawal, then avoid the simple carbs that are seducing you into bad behavior.

Utter removal from your abode is the best way to avoid them. Can't snack on food that doesn't exist! 

Be CERTAIN that you will make progress and all hope is NOT lost

A lot of people experience a slow down at six months or so.