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:tongue2: Jello really does work. I get to chew it, stay on track and it breaks down the wall that I had up, fat!

I read what everyone else has said, and it all sounds reasonable, and we all "had", our vice, but now we remarkably changed our eating, by encouraging each one in the group to stop lying, we all know when it is not right. It is wrong if it feels bad and looks bad on. I discovered soy protein, and it is even in the flour, by 40%! It even has a brown flour look, like its healthy, and makes flour bleached white feel wrong. So like the book, "Eat This Not That" it pay off to make the switches. I cant trust myself with real food, so the switch is the soy protein powder, which under a micro scope is just food, but in a powder form, it switches off the eating machine by combining it with a chochlate latte thing taste, it makes the inches fall away. (Not the Hair!)

Your so funny! Help is on the way, just listen to yourself, you have a great sence of humor, dont get lost in the hair repair, just enjoy the everyday laughter you generate, and it will take care of itself. Repair.

Ok I will be 3 weeks out on Wednesday. I went through something similar and I believe that's what caused my stall at a week and a half out. I wasn't eating crackers but I was making really cheesy dips that included chicken,velveeta cheese,etc. And I was eating snacks with my husband like a couple bites of cheesecake off his plate,a couple pieces of chex mix muddy buddy,etc. I had no room for the healthy stuff! At my one week post op appt my dr told me I was free to eat whatever(healthy) as long as I chewed it thoroughly and went slow. I started eating a bit of ice cream,a lil while later a couple bites of pudding,a while after that some of the velveeta dip stuff and so on...While I don't believe there is enough calories and or fat in the little bitty amounts I was sticking in my sleeve to make you gain a bunch of weight,I do believe all of this and the scale showed it with a 1 lb gain and then stall at a week and a half out: 1-Not eating planned out meals and just grazing throughout the day was getting in the way of my fluid intake. I had it in my mind that I could not tolerate protein shakes so that was being sabotoged as well,and none of these things are healthy. I was not coming to terms with the fact that my sleeve is still too small and new for me to be eating these things and still getting in the nutrition that I need. If I'm not getting in enough liquids or protein,my body is in starvation mode and will hang onto any little bit of fat it can to store for energy,I will feel weak and fatigued like I was,my hair will start falling out(one of my biggest fears). I gave my scale to my mom and made SURE to put lean protein foods first,and that's about all I can fit in my sleeve. My rule of thumb now is NO food goes into my mouth when I wake up until I have had at least 20 ozs of liquids,I follow that with a muscle milk light which has 20 grams of protein and my sleeve loves it compared to a protein shake. Then I have to have 10 more ounces of liquids b4 lunch. I can only stomach 1.5 ounces of chicken with hot sauce and a dab of blue cheese on it then I'm full. Wait about an hour and make myself finish off 10 more ounces of fluids before dinner. I then eat tuna,salmon,cheese,or chicken,something with protein for dinner. By then I have had more than 40 grams of protein and 40 ounces of liquids. I am free for the rest of the evening to drink liquids,eat a couple bites of SF pudding (I usually sprinkle some unflavored protein in it) or even eat a SF fruit bar-only 25 calories and soooo good! The reason I am saying all this is bc this: Since I put my foot down and started doing what I know I should be,my stall ended quickly and I have lost 3 more lbs in 3 days! I had to realize that I will eventually get to enjoy these things in moderation,but the whole reason I got the sleeve is so I can fill it with healthy,protein rich foods,vitamins and liquids consistently until my excess weight is gone. I will from now on save the junk food till I am farther out. That 1 lb gain and stall was enough to snap me out of it and remember what I was blessed with. Now,that being said it's just my opinion and I do believe everyone's body is different and everyone can handle things differently. I just kinda wanted to let u in on my experience thus far out and hope I can help in someway. ((HUGS)) and stay strong,we will get through this! Source: Is This Self-Sabotage?

Thanks for the great report, you really took us with you on that scary big step. I read a lot of reports of the event, but yours really laid it out for me. My big step is next month, and your account of how it goes helps a lot!

Girl you know it! If I didnt loose everyone that I ever loved in the last 5 years, let me know, and if I dive into that ditch of grief again, shoot me! Im living in deniel for a reason, it works, and if I am the only one who remembers what the cops did when they pulled a bunch of teens over, well lets just leave it at that. If Im the only one who remembers riding in the car standing up between mom and dad, flying on the interstate, and sliding all over the back seat when they took a turn, into the local ice house...well then Im the only one.

Just kidding, I love to see the regulars get riled up! Maybe Im the only one who remembers the sixties! Ya, and you need meds to drive in some big cities!HA hA! Sure do envy you getting to live in the SF Bay area, Glory! That is some beautiful place. The only thing wrong with SF is I dont live there. The only thing wrong with my last trip there was no one was with me. I kept wishing I could say, "Hey look at this..." My neighbor got drunk and went outside and shot his friend dead a month ago, and another neighbor got under his house to fix a Water leek, and a copperhead bit him several times and he died. A boy the next town over slept with his window open, and a bat came in and bit him, he told his mom he thought he got bit, but they didnt do anything and he died of rabies! My dad was 82 years old, and died while he was driving, and hit another car and killed a real nice man, who was the father of 3 and my age....

Your a great writter and communicator, but where are you....? Are you having so much fun being thin again, you dont come visit us and post?

Well written, exactly what I also feel. If I was a drug addict or an alcholic, I couldnt be any more selfish that a food addict. It has cost un countable loss and damages. It is as sick a cult as I can derive. I hope to get free.

They can have mormans, they can have hairs, but they cant have mormon hairs! :conehead:

:aureola: I am the last of the baby boomers, from the generation greatest parents to my 5 baby boomer brothers, we learned hard, and we do it right! I can drive on meds! :cheers2:

This is the best, and well written, day to day, step by step example of what the sleevers day should be like! Well Done, Great Job

You know as well as any of us, u cant go there. There aint nowhere in retardville you want to be sabotaged. You need to jump out of that fat food frying pan now. Alchoholics dont go to bars and we dont go to rits peanut butter jars! Get out this instant....Just felt like you needed that! HaHa...but Im not kidding. You need to leave the dead zone and not look for a fast fix, but get out of the movies sitting house, and get walking and get your cook books out and see what whould taste great, feel like a carb delight, but not be. Like a squash Soup with bacon, taste real carby but its not. Orange squash, calaflower cooked to the bone, put in processor with cheese and yummy. Your enemy is doing things that require you to sit. Just me....

OK, just me, but my little brother got chubby when he was 12, and by mid 13 he lost it. I was haranging on him about all his sugar ussage, and he hollered at me as only an adolesent does, "It aint about sugar, it's sh_ting that makes you fat or not, if you aint Sh_ting, you aint loosing" So maybe on his sage advice, you could use more fiber action....Just me...

Hey, :Banane57: Im not a man, but Im hoping my facial hair stops growing. :conehead: I got the hairey jewish princess thing going on.. Too Much Information. Ha Ha :Angel_anim: You could become a morman, or a Jehovahs Witness now....No facial hair Ha Ha.

Hey I heard of a few like your case of it, but I came across an article on coconut oil and its effect on diabeties and several other ailments, like fatty liver etc...You might go online and read a little about what this coconut oil does. It has some kind of powerful ester effect, there is also a video article on the 700 club web site.

One more thing, if it is true, like my brother always says,"Them skinny men love them fat women!" You might get a stout one when your skinny!

Well you know what my take on it is....There are two schools on the subjuect. If you make him love that part that is not affected by weight, than he wont want to move off it. He could just get that, and be every so happy, with out being alone, he will find it irrisistable, and so con develope into his, where he will keep taking it over ontill it is only found with him and then he will prosper and it will most likely form into a spring wedding! The other school of thought is, he might be a slippery fish, and could get scared off easy, no mater what bait you use....Jesus caught a bunch of easy fish, they just jumped into his net, why not let him?