It is so much easier after the holidays are over. I always overeat at holiday time and this year was no exception. I put on weight and my weight crept back up to 225. I'm back down to 220, and I've gone back to a pretty strict diet. I can honestly make a huge breakfast and eat it, but I've gone back to drinking the Carnation Instant Breakfast and I have my freezer stocked with Lean Cusines. Even though I gained weight back over the holidays, I am still lighter than I was last year at this time.

It is a battle. It is a battle everytime I go out to run errands and go past a fast food restaurant. The band is not a miracle cure. It is a tool, but you have to use that tool the way it was intended to use it. You CAN get around the band and snack the pounds back on. I do not have the will power to keep sweets in the house. This is my weakness. Sweets and fast foods. So I step on the scale EVERY morning. The scale will not lie. Those numbers on the scale won't lie and if you can't sneak food by the scale and not have it show up.

January is always a great month to get back into the swing of things because instead of all of the chocolate commercials you see the weight loss commercials. I don't know, maybe it gets better after you've lost the weight, but it is hard to watch the commercials for the junk food and NOT want to overeat.

I feel like if I can just get another 20 pounds out the way before Spring arrives that I will be set on a good track for success. Because when the weather gets warm I love to work out in the yard and I always lose weight.

I CAN do this!!!! :confused: