baron Re: Suggestions 16 mos Out

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Greetings Friends, :

I am standing in a library right now with a 4 hour break between my classes.

When I made up the schedule I figured the break would be enforced study time;

it has been for awhile but I just had to check mail. ...besides having the

same time of surgery, I totally agree with what you say and how you describe

yourself and your known " weaknesses " regarding certain foods. My house is

virtually barren....lol...no pun on words. Am I proud of it....Yes and No. I

have definitely changed regarding food in many ways but with 4 1/2 years post op

I still have so much more ingrained behavior regarding food than I have

recovery. Yes...I have been blessed with an enormous weight loss and I have

maintained or lost more for a few years now. YES...I have had my pogo stick

periods.....and those were not from eating a cookie or two here and there. I am

one of those that still does not know all that much about moderation. In my

cooking I seem to always make too much; the result is that the intended one

meal usually lasts for 2 to 3 meals. As so aptly said....refraining to

the best of your ability from certain carbs and sugars is a MUST if you want to

lose and maintain your weight. I seem to deviate about 10 pounds. No one

really ever notices it but me. This deviation is because of intense eating at

times; usually snack foods, fast foods and crunchy stuff. Dave...you hit it on

the head. When you eat chips and stuff like that....it emulsifies in your mouth

before it even goes into the pouch. That is why we can eat so much of that

stuff even in the early days if we were the type to experiment. These days, I

am really looking to address what it is to be on " maintenance " . Truthfully,

this is something I am but a newborn in.....at age 50 this is pretty much the

first time the same clothes fit me that did a year or two ago. That is unless

they were fat clothes that I was getting back into cause I was gaining.

Exercise is soooo much easier to keep as a habit than to get it back. That fact

is painfully clear to me now that I am back to the gym.

One last thing....COMMUNICATION!! The fact that some of us are still here

talking with each other, sharing our strength, hopes, experiences, successes and

seemingly failures is amazing. These threads and groups constitute the longest

relationship outside of food I have ever had with a constructive outside group.

SO...thanks for keeping me " green " ....I am grateful to be shedding those unseen

extra pounds I know are there, and am doing it because I am eating more protein,

less carbs and being more diligent about my quantities as well. For those of

you that consider refraining from " Oreos " .... " deprivation " ......God Bless ya

but I want no part of that concept. Let me stay a happy idiot and believe that

I cannot really eat certain foods moderately; just the way I believe that I

cannot drink alcohol moderately.

Regards.....baron

RNY...4/29/98..........535lbs. (high 600)

Currently.....approx...192lbs and dropping