Help, I'm slowly gaining back weight

I had my VSG on 6/16/15.  At my one year point, I had lost 81 pounds.  Since July, 2016, I have slowly been gaining weight, about 10lbs.   What can I do?   

Feeling scared.

 

You can check in here, every day. keep your mind in the game.

Weigh and log your food. Be accountable to yourself. See where you can cut back, then do it.

Dense protein first, at every meal. Do that, and you not only won't have room for wasted calories, you won't crave them.

Two years is where the rubber meets the road. The honeymoon is over. The real work starts, and it's time to bear down. It isn't easy, but it's doable.

Once you start eating more calories than you burn, regain happens.  It is like starting a forest fire.  It is easy to toss a match and get things going, but it really hard to stop the regain once it starts.

Losing 81 pounds means that you would need to eat 800 less calories per day than you did before surgery.  The only way to fight is by counting calories.  When I had weight loss surgery I thought I was done with calorie counting forever.

I learned that it is a balancing act.  I log everything in My Fitness Pal and weigh myself daily.  For me, I maintain at 1400 calories a day.  If I eat an extra 500 a day I gain a pound a week.  If I eat 500 calories less than I lose a pound a week.

Im going through the same thing. I have the worst sweet cravings. Burn more calories than you eat, and you'll be fine! Don't get lazy on your workouts!

What, exactly, are you eating every day?  Give us some sample meal plans so we can troubleshoot for you.  

If you aren't tracking everything you put into your mouth using something like MyFitnessPal, start now.  That's really the only way that you can know what you're consuming and what you need to change.  

I'm eating good for breakfast and lunch, it's the evening and night eating that is hardest for me.  I fill up fast at lunch and breakfast but about 1 or 2 hours later I can eat again.  I really losing control. 

Can you please be more specific?  What does "eating good" mean for you?  What, exactly, are you eating?  

Breakfast: 

eggs/omelet

3 slices of bacon

coffee w/cream

unsweet tea

 

Lunch:

Baked chicken, fish, or meatloaf

veggie

1-2 peanut butter cookies

Snack:

Premier Protein , almonds, almond & chocolate granola bar, or pork rinds

Dinner:

Baked chicken, fish(sometime fried), pork or beef

This is the time I lose control and start grazing. 

 

 

   

So I'd ditch the cream in the coffee, since that's a lot of extra calories.  I'd ditch the peanut butter cookies at lunch too.  Try to replace the snack with dense protein like chicken or beef.  

For me, grazing was part of my binge eating disorder.  Talking with my doctor and getting diagnosis + medication helped me to control the underlying mental illness there.  

Basically, you're eating more calories than you should be and you've got to figure out how to change that.  

Yes,, I feel that I'm binge eating.  Is binge eating from life stresses, suppressed feelings, or what?  What type of medication and for what?  Thank you so much for helping me!