Im STUCK and my sweet tooth has hit overdrive!

[MOMomx5 0]

Hi everyone! I am SOO stuck! I was banded Sept. 4th, 2009. I lost pretty good the first month, but I have basically been stuck since December. I have only lost 27 pounds! I have 6.5 cc in my fill. I chose not to have any more at my last visit and I am regretting it. My sweet tooth is going insane too. I physically feel terrible....I still have about 55 lbs to lose and I am TOTALLY regretting having done this! I figured by now I would be MUCH closer to my goal!

Has anyone been through this?

Thanks!!

[gnortenjones 0]

I'm in almost the exact same situation. Had mine in August, lost a lot at first, then stopped, then insane sweet cravings.

One thing about my situation, is that I suffer from depression, and around the beginning of the year decided to try to go off my anti-depressants because I don't like the side effects. I'm pretty sure I went through an "episode" since then, and the sweet cravings were essentially me trying to self medicate.

Fortunately, I'm self aware enough to realize this, and am taking steps to deal with it.

So my only real advice is for you to try to figure out what triggers your cravings (stress, depression, boredome, etc), and try and find coping mechanisms. A few things I've tried are:

1) When I'm feeling cravings, try to distract myself. This can either be going for a walk, playing a game on my phone, or in desperate times I've put a rubber band around my wrist, and snapped it (that little bit of pain causes the mind to refocus on something other than the cravings).

2) Find something that satisfies your cravings that is low calorie. Even though my cravings are typically sweet in nature, I've found these puffed corn cakes (kind of like a rice cake/giant rice crispy), but their only 16 calories each, and make a great snack to ward off cravings.

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to deal with cravings. If there was, I suspect many of us wouldn't be here.

Hope this helps.