Dee_1111

This thread is going to be very embarrassing for me, but I've talked to ALOT of women who are 8 or more years out on this subject, wished I'd of talked to them sooner!!! Before surgery I was warned OVER AND OVER again about alcohol!!!..did I listen, NOOOOOOooo. I was going to be the ONE who drank like she did before, This is the ONLY issue I REFUSED to listen to, I didn't want my surgeon or the PhD's to get in my 'Cup'. I did give up beer, only because of the carbonation, but what was I thinking, I wasn't!! About a year out, I thought I was safe, I was a miraculous 115 lbs, entering 'Maintenance" , had my Vitamin regiment down pat. blah blah blah. Feeling accomplished. BARTENDER!!! vodka martini please!!! first one, feeling good, whooo hooo...did a body check, no pain in the pouch, cool, BARTENDER!!! Vodka martini Please!!! People, I don't even remember leaving the establishment I was in. I opened one eye, head pounding and my husband standing at the foot of the bed shaking his head!!!..OH GOD!! what did I do!!!...well apparently not much. One minute I'm sitting there socializing, next second, I'm on the floor. I was a complete puddle, he carried me to the car and poured me in. out like a light!!!..I consider that episode a fluke, wont happen again, I'll drink something lighter DING! round 2: GNO aka: Girls Night Out. This time I decided I'd better get a strategy. I'd eat first. well this time I ordered my fave: White Wine..loveeee my wine, or I did. 1st glass, good, milder and lighter than the martini, slower to get a buzz. good strategy. yay me, figured it out. Drank a glass of Water in between, good, no pain in the pouch, not to buzzed. 2nd glass good, THIRD GLASS, BAM!!!! Hit me like a tone of bricks, this time I didn't fall out, but my buzz factor incapacitated me, I knew I couldn't get up and walk. crap! I whisper to my gal pal, to take me home. EMBARRASING!!! ok fine, I get it, I don't need round 3 to teach me anymore lessons, I'm not hard headed. But I do miss hitting the Vino till 2 A.M. So I do have 2 glass on whatever with a water back, and call it a night, or if its a dinner party, I drink water for the rest of the night, I mourned, and still mourn my 7-8 glasses of vino on GNO'S. thanx for listening, embarrassing as that was.

March 1st 2014, I will be 4 years out and living in maintenance. All the trials and tribulations of surgery behind me. Life has settle down and routine has taken over. My yearly visits to my surgeons office are pretty uneventful. My lipids are stable because my vitamin regiment is stable. What I chose to eat is also routine. I don't veer off my food list very often. Boat loads of fruit and veggies, chicken, salmon, etc.. I try not to incorporate different foods in my plan because that seems to be where I get into trouble. I slice and dice, add spice and bake, sauté, crock pot, and broil the same foods just different ways with different spices and flavors. But I found very early on that if I incorporate different cultural foods into my eating plan is where my troubles can begin. for instance, I had to give up (American) Italian food..we all know why..lol. I had to give up most French dishes, we all know why..not that these cultural dishes don't have healthy choices, I just wasn't makin'um. So to eliminate the drama I cause when I veer off, I don't veer much. Food is now a lesser priority then before, is all. When my pouch cries, I first drink water, just to make sure it's not thirsty first, then after that, it still tapping me, I feed it. At this stage I can pretty much tell what my pouch wants, I seldom get thirsty in the mouth anymore, its my pouch thast thirsty, took me a while to recognize the difference. Strange as that sounds it's a fact. My pouch is its own childish entity. At this stage I have also recognize the difference between my brain wanting food and my pouch wanting food. In order to be a successful GBP (Gastric Bypass Person) you have to get to know your body, listen to it, and tell it NO if you have to. I think I'll end this here, I'm a thought blabber..lol..I'm sure I'll be writing more. Its nice to have a place where my babbling might actually help someone..lol..thanx for listening

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Mine is..and I say it all the time..and write it a lot..is my all time motivation saying. specially when I standing in front of a cheese cake...lolol "This Body Feels Better, Than (any) food Tastes"

I watched the Biggest Loser like some tv zombie, ask me anything about that show! sad really. But here's the thing that was ALWAYS foremost in my mind as I watched--> Biggest Loser is a REALITY TV SHOW!!!..with producers, camera people..and a million other off camera folks making this show watchable and entertaining. Edited so we out here in "couchville" think we can DO IT TOO!!!!..Get real people!!!..not once did I get up off my couch, set down my Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and get to the gym. NOPE not once. I was to busy watching tv!!!..Gotta love 'corporate' America! It was my declining health and threat of death, that got my lazy a$$ moving. Once I had RnY (not to mention the MONEY it cost me to have the surgery) and got my inner dialog fighting with me, like a bad sibling, my life became like a SUPER SET. I never looked back. I couldn't afforded to. Financially or physically.

Hi Everyone..sorry been away from the puter for a while BECAUSE!!!!... I have decided that since I have been going to the gym, eating clean, living the best life I can, for the past 4 years, that now it's time for me to move up one more rung in my ladder of "Being a better Me". I've become to complacent, to comfortable, and to adjusted to my thinner life.(never thought I'd say that???) Time to BASH out of my comfort zone!!! I have taken on a 84 day challenge from the website "Bodybuilding.com" Jamie Eason's bodybuilding program, along with a group of friends. We've picked the best trainer/program that suits us individually. I cant even begin to tell you how OUT OF MY COMFORT ZONE this is. I don't do challenges. I don't even jog!! I strength train a lot, but not to this degree..YIKERS!! So, my program has NO cardio, the object here, is to build muscle. not burn calories. which goes against everything I've learned so far with WLS. I now have to do the OPPOSITE of everything I've been doing with WLS..talk about SCARY!!!.. BUT I have been doubly reassured (through the weight trainer at my gym) that the food I will be consuming are conducive to gaining muscle. So thats the reason I been absent from this site.. I have been learning about Bodybuilding foods..I must tell you all THIS: it is exactly what I've been eating for the past 4 years...lololol...I must drink Protein shakes, I do...I must take Vitamins, I do...I must eat boat loads of chicken, I do..I must consume large quantities of leafy greens, veggies and fruits..I already do...lollol...dodged that bullet..lol I also had to learn what a 'Raw Foods' diet consists of, because I will have to do that for a week or 2 at some point, no prob there, just cut out the chicken..ok breezing threw the food part..lol So, I've also been learning how to navigate the weight room, and what all the moves are called, some I've been doing for 4 years, just didn't know the names of the moves..lol..like--> Lat Pulldowns..lol.,been doing that for years, just had no name to go with it..lol..so been learning all the names of the equipment, and how to use what look like torture contraptions. Today would have been Day1..but damnit I had to work O.T. So tomarrow (Marcch 4th) will be Day 1..got a whole lot of reps in my future..but Im gonna give it all I got..This is just another thing I don't want to fail at. I can do this, I can this, I can do this...Right????? :/

Day 2..made it through all the reps..but left disgruntled and hobbling..lol..the calf lifts destroyed me!!! ..Day 3 bring it on!!

damn computers.sheeeeezzz, Im going to bed!!

Topic WAS supposed to be WHY WE CRAVE SUGAR..Don't know what happened..damn putters!!

sorry I always have after thoughts... new WLS people are so crammed with PROTEIN, PROTEIN, WATER, WATER, PROTEIN, PROTEIN!!!!.. but your body still needs OTHER nutrients to work. Yes, we do have to go Protein first, water, etc..but the body still needs ALOT more to function, and when it needs something, it tickles the belly, that's its way of getting our attention. If we lack the knowledge to listen, we misread its signals, it craves LIVE, GOOD, FOODS. sorry I a bit passionate about this subject.

your cravings are the brains way of telling you I NEED SOMETHING, are you getting enough complex carbs in? how is your fruit intake?..listen to your body. Your thinking the 'OLD" way, feed it sweets ...think the NEW way. Here is where you have to leave your old life behind. Don't go to your OLD habits, look to your NEW ones, cravings are because the body is lacking something, whether it be Water, good carbs, Protein, omega's, something, do a food log check. Do everything you can think of, so you don't snack on an OLD HABIT.

I'm right there with ya sista..just got a PT myself..he, one the other hand has decided to make me loose the "cardio" body ( which is becoming to long and lean) and give me a body that heavy weights and HIIT(high intense interval training) will give me, I want what he wants so hopefully were a match made in 'HIIT' hell!..good luck, buff bods HERE WE COME!!!!

15 GLORIOUS pound!!!..I think I was more excited about that, then all the weight loss there after. I hadn't lost that much weight so fast IN YEARS!!!.. I jumped for joy about that little 15'er

nite fuzzy

My #1 mantra is: NO food tastes as good as this (new) body feels!!!!!...(I love mantras..from this site alone, I have cover my frig with most of them..I find them at the bottom of peoples posts..lovely, just lovely.. )

And your new life begins..read lots of posts, all your questions have already been answered, just read till you cant read no more!!!..This gift is yours to do with what you will..SO WILL it!!!! I wish you all the success Im now having..NOTHING LIKE IT!!!!

Is not pookbear the sweetest thing??..you rock!!

PS..ohhh ohh .. I also love the fact that muscles burns fat faster, and a broad plant food based diet/lifestly will accelerate the process..Im hearing ALL GOOD HERE, lot of discomfort, but so was WLS in the beginning..forging forward, I am..going that a way----->

Dave: Good for you!!!!.. yes indeed, buff bods HERE WE COME!! today was DAY 1..all was good, no trainer today, we needed to see if I could do it on my own and later discuss how I felt about navigating the machines. Well I breezed threw the sets, all expect the 'push-up' which just about killed me!!!!..I do have a b*tch though..my gym is to crowded for how I need to navigate, people are all over the machines I need, luckily we have a 'Women's Zone', which I'm not use to using, but that seemed the solution to the overcrowd of machines. So my biggest accomplishment today was finding an alternative solution to keep forging ahead...lol..I bet in about 3 weeks my sunny disposition will be greatly clouded..lol..Im to cocky about getting threw today..I better shut it, before I have to eat my words. Imsoworthit: I have also been strength training for the past 3 years, but not to this degree, heavier weights. I've lost all the weight and more I was suppose to, and started noticing that my body was becoming to long and lean, like a runners or bicyclists. That what cardio does, make long lean muscles. I don't want long and lean, I want strong and shapely ..Eric, the trainer guy, explained that to me when we met. Cardio burns calories, for that long and lean look a runner has. Strength training, gets me sexy shoulders, back and a small waist, with a flat tummy and beautiful legs with awesome calves...SIGN ME UP!!!!! Day 2, tomarrow!!!

ya know..just cuz we're on the topic..Fat Shaming..funny how the words 'Fat and/or Obese' are offensive to some people..a co-worker called me 'Skinny Minnie' and I thanked him? Isn't he still calling me names?? just an observation....

I know Im much further out then all of you..but this is a great time to start experimenting with a plant based diet..it will be your future to success and a stablizer for your lower weights..find friuts & vegs you love, make them the way you enjoy eating them..even if it is in very small bites..good habits now..greater success later..I love eggplant, broccoli & kale..you can do alot with friuts & vegs in small doses.

Well if it weren't for my Doc politely telling me I was MORBIDLY OBESE, I wouldn't have has this surgery, lost a sh*t load of weight, became healthier, walked threw a GYM door, put a smile back on my husbands face (if ya know what I mean), fit in an airplane seat, chase my grandkids around the yard, or walk 3 miles when ever I choose OR found this awesome site!!....hmmmm, what was that my Doc said I was...MORDIDLY OBESE??..thank you my sweet Doctor for caring enough to hurt my sensitive A$$...love him

I'm in 100%

lol..Thank you Apryl..lol..it is HUGE for me. But like I told my husband, I think its just a natural evolution to what I've been doing all along. Kind of UPPING the 'hum-drum' stakes, if you will. Been reevaluating the past 4 years and all I've learned and accomplish, I have climbed that 'WLS mountain', did my happy dance while I was up there.. why not try another 'mountain'. Funny how this healthier/ skinnier life is so different from my much heavier life..Im thinking about OTHER ways to be stronger, better, and just all around healthier, all the time...sitting still is becoming impossible...lololol..

What you're talking about, I call it my 'Inner Dialog"..we fight like siblings! I remember my first real Inner Dialog about a month after surgery, and was at my daughters house and there were 'pinafore's' on the sideboard (a delectable treat). I'm pretty sure I skidded to a complete stop. Eyeballed those mouth watering objects, and reached for one. It wasn't me, it was my inner obese-self..she is shameless, that one..I had to SLAP her hand!!..she can get me into mischief if I allow it. She's my biggest cheerleader and my biggest enabler. I keep a tight eye on her. I talk to her constantly. She will be with me forever, so I gotta love her. And I do. But she's very mischievous. She keeps me on my Game.