Here is a flip of the usual mindset for you to consider. Open mind... and think about this. If it does not make sense, discard it and you may want to find a new group.
If you LIVE on track you don't need to artificially STAY on track. Make it WHERE YOU LIVE. No more START and STOP... ON or OFF. Just live this way and have a better life. Find some hard lines... some NO's. I have some very basic hard 'NO's that I no longer even have to think about.
SML's TOP 4 HARD NO RULES
1. No super market cake. Many of you have worked in offices that bring in a big cake every month for the birthdays. MAKE IT A HARD LINE NO. Next time, take note that NOT EVERYONE EATS THE CAKE. Betcha the slim girls in the skinny pants, turtleneck sweaters and high heeled boots DO NOT eat the supermarket cake. Apply this rule for always. There is no need to eat crappy conveyer belt cake ever. We can start there.
I make nice 'no sugar' desserts occasionally that are better than any supermarket cake but even A BOWL OF SUGAR FREE JELLO is a nice thing to break out after dinner during Jeopardy. (not the lazy store bought kind thats like rubber, MAKE A BOWL like your mum did)
2. No candy. It’s just not a big deal. I don’t eat sugar, and candy has sugar. Boom. I like to button my skinny jeans. I like it even more when I play golf all weekend and my skinny golf pants are baggy in the butt. I have two sizes of jeans, slim and slimmer, its great!
3. No crackers. I eat a piece of cheese or a few grapes, but crackers generally are used to HOLD food and Id rather just eat the food or use a spoon. I made a bowl of bruschetta last night and put some in a dish to eat with a spoon.
4. No burger or hot dog buns. Why? They are a garbage food. If I'm out and order a burger, I just peel away the bun to expose a bite. It’s messy but efficient. It’s MY choice. I don't order it without a bun from the kitchen because I DO NOT special order food in restaurants.
That's it. You guys like to justify stuff. Like Crackers and Chocolate and Won Ton wrappers and Tots. Frozen Dinners. Fast Food. You are ecstatic over finding a box of chick pea macaroni or fishy shirataki noodles. Why? You are desperate to hang on to what you LIKE to eat. You'd rather not change. You had no intention of changing if you want to really get down to it. That's why some of you get so angry over the words EASY WAY OUT. (which no one ever says to you, but thats another rant) Truth is that we did take the easy way out. Easier than diet and exercise WITHOUT surgery, that's for sure.
You'd be so much better off listening to a role model who is 4 or 12 or 20 years post op and maintaining 100... 200... or 300 pounds of weight gone, instead of trusting your own faulty 7 month post op intuition that is responsible for your needing stomach removal surgery. Capisce?
It wasn't working for you before surgery so let it go and learn some new tricks. Don’t ride things that do not work all the way back up the scale. Small things make a big difference when you just remove them from your life. So try starting with those basic four.
Post op life is a LOT easier once you resign to the fact that you need to FIND NEW FOOD TO LOVE that won't kill you.
OR NOT lol, but we aren't going to fight about crackers with you. Have fun with Keebler and join a group who wear leggings instead of skinny jeans and they’ll be happy to tell you that A FEW CRACKERS WITH YOUR TUNA SALAD or SMEARED WITH PEANUT BUTTER ARE FINE.
That is not us. WELCOME TO BARIATRIC EATING on Locals.
We've had a ton of new people join us since the last time we did one of these!
In the comments below introduce yourself with these three facts about YOU:
1) Your name
2) Are you a cat person or dog person?
3) Favorite Inspire Flavor or food.
SMART & SLIM FOR SUMMER CHALLENGE
We had such a fantastic time with our March Challenge we're ramping up to do it AGAIN! Here's what you need to know now:
👉🏻SAVE THE DATE! We start Monday May 3rd for SUPPORTERS only! If you're not a Supporter don't miss out AGAIN. Join us and start participating. You'll get more than you realize out of this group once you're fully participating.
👉🏻ORDER your 14 Day Inspire Diet Box. Don’t let NOT having enough Inspire or waiting on shipping be your excuse to miss out on yet another one of our Challenges!
👉🏻LISTEN TO THIS: https://www.bariatriceating.com/blogs/podcast-real-talk-with-suzi-shaw/episode-15-no-one-is-coming-to-save-you
👉🏻Think about a SPECIFIC goal for the Challenge.
Example: STOP bedtime snacking
Example: START drinking plain water.
Example: STOP Drinking with Meals
Example: START making a grocery list without junk food and sticking TO THE LIST
(notice there's not a WEIGHT LOSS NUMBER there...there's a ...
If you've been doing our March Inspire Diet Challenge you know that one of your daily tasks on each check-in is to weigh yourself.
There's a few reasons we've discussed before, and on our website (this article: https://www.bariatriceating.com/blogs/bariatric-advice-and-support/the-scale-friend-or-enemy ) but there's a bigger reason than the truly important getting to know your body.
It's to make peace with what your MIND seems to think will happen when you start losing weight again.
You see one of the biggest things that no one talks about, and trips EVERYONE up is that during our initial stages as a post op we are dropping a pond or more DAILY. Now we've said this before and we'll say it again, no matter how hard you are working that first year it's not YOU it's the surgery. People here who couldn't get to goal, and those to got to goal and regained can attest to the fact that your Surgery is driving the bus for at least the firs year, and if you're lucky the first year and a half.
So by ...
We get it....every now and then we all need a fresh start.
Listen to this if you are struggling but ready to get on track TODAY!
Just a reminder that as of Friday August 20th this fantastic group is now at it's forever home on our main website this completes our vision for what support group can be. It will be all you love about THIS group….in a way nicer location you’re already familiar with.
If you are just checking in after a few days, don't feel bad just come join us there!
There are a few things to note:
- The new Premium Group uses your BariatricEating.com store log in information, so there’s NO need to create a new identity!
- Once you log into our new group you will be required to agree to and pay for a $5 membership fee. In exchange for this you’ll be offered $10 Bariatric Eating.com coupon every month you remain a member.
- We will be closing the doors here by the end of September to give everyone the chance to transition.
- Since we made this shift mid-month we have a special coupon just for YOU here that has been posted there...so there's money on the table for you when you come join us!
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Have you moved over to the new platform and can't find my check ins? Here's a direct link!
https://www.bariatriceating.com/community/support/daily-accountability-forum
