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Track your food- every bite. Cut back on carbs. No excuses.
I am battling regain, too. The mental part is the hardest. I know what to do- just making myself do it is the hard part.
Good luck!!
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
What is a philly cheese steak sloppy joe and how do you make it :)
(VSG) HW, 346 SW, 341 CW 176.2 GW, 165 
Not far enough out to really give the advice but just wanted to Give my condolences. And wish you good luck getting back on track. Knee surgery can put you down for quite some time between not being able to walk for a while and the stress included eating wrong can happen easily and not working it off at the time. i can see that happening really easy. Good luck on your journey back down! i wish you all the best. You can do it!! You did it once before.
That makes sense. Yea today was a very gurgly day. or Growly i am not sure. still trying to figure out how everything feels again. Cuz the growly/gurgly stuff i haven't felt since before the surgery at least to this extent. Just getting back to work gotta get my schedule and meal times reset to where i was 2 months ago roughly. Granted im not sure if i can do the intermittent fasting this early out. as i was before.
Thank you for hte advice ^_^
Can you give a day of what you are eating or ideas that help you?
(VSG) HW, 346 SW, 341 CW 176.2 GW, 165
Any tips... Ill be 8 years out in April of 2020. I did so many things right for so long and life has got in the way. Any tips that could possibly help. Since surgery on my knee in 2015 I have gained 65 lbs. I dont need the negativity please...
What are some things that have or are helping you!? If you are this far out what are you eating and how much at one sitting? 1 cup?
Thanks in advance:)
(VSG) HW, 346 SW, 341 CW 176.2 GW, 165
It does take a while for your new stomach to handle some foods. I'm 1.5 years out, but if I forget to chew veggies thoroughly they feel all "pointy" in my stomach for a bit.
The hunger you're feeling may be excess stomach acid rather than real hunger, and drinking extra fluids can help with that. My #1 diet tip is: if you feel hungry and it's not mealtime, drink a glass of water (or other liquid). Usually that quiets my stomach and I forget about food until mealtime. But if the hunger comes back, then I eat something. That way I'm never telling myself "no"; I'm just delaying for a short time. This has really helped me a lot.
Oh that is good to know! I do still get pain sometimes when i drink to much i can feel it and sometimes i do feel like some of it wants to come back up that also those same times haha but ive tried to be soo careful with it cuz the nutrition class person and others have told me that drinking to much would stretch your pouch out faster then eating to much.. hmm Food for thought. I also Take your advice with much consideration especially since you have gone thru this for so long and have alot more experience! Thank you for that. Yea i went to the pool when we went to my last doc apt in just before thanksgiving. i have always been a water baby. Could hardly walk but was hard to pass up 4 hrs in a heated pool about 90 degrees F and or a Hot Tub 104 degrees F while its about 20 degrees outside and snowing! Was amazing! and the firs time i went in a public pool in years self image problems and had a blast the water felt great on my ankle and just pushing with my toes didn't really hurt much till it was time to get out and walk on land. Wish i had a pool at home even if it was just wide enough to do a lap or 20 lol. Might just have to suck it up and get a pool pass again and see about stopping in after work. Will have to see how the finances line up after the new years. Still tryign to get out of hte hole that was this surgery and the time off work. Just posted on my GFM that the family wanted me to set up that ill be taking it down at the end of the month and wanted to give everyone that commented or gave a little bit a final thank you ^_^. Tis the season for thanks and appreciation is it not?
I might have to try the Biofreeze. Never used it before and sometimes putting my ankle on an ice pack even wrapped in a towel its either not cold for ever or too cold OR to bumpy and pokey itt hurts the ankle haha just cant win. Thanks for the advice! lets see how it helps.
Timothy
