I hope your knee is feeling better and I am sorry for your family tragedy. What you have gone through with regain can happen to anyone. All I can say is what has worked for me. Number 1 is counseling, then focusing on "adding" rather than cutting back, going back to tracking, and just paying more attention to my servings. So far, so good! It can be done. I just needed to change my thinking and change my focus. You can do this!

I'm sorry you've had such a rough time, but now that you've recognized you're fighting an addiction, it's time to get the help you need to get back on the wagon. Recognizing it is the first step.
I agree with Lcat; counseling and/or support groups, whatever helps you find the tools to get on track, and helps with accountability to stay there, will be a good start.
That and get moving again, any way you can, maybe swimming, maybe rowing, or even yoga. Non-impact, motion based movement. You can do this, and you're worth it.

I'm sorry to hear about our family's loss. I know that stress eating is something that I tend to do.

Maintenance involves balancing the gain/loss dynamic that I think everyone faces. I gained about 20 lb, and I need to lose 12-15 of it. (Some of the gain was encouraged by my physician.) So I'm going back to weighing myself daily, and I'm cutting calories to less than 1000 a day until I'm back to where I want to be. I don't get hungry. When I want to eat, it's often for emotional reasons, so I always have to check myself.

Happily, we have a tool that will continue to work for us, if we use it wisely. Good luck to you. :)

I also regained weight, 40 lbs, I let myself fall back into old eating patterns, grazing and "sugar", so far I have taken off 10 lbs just by counting my carbs and protein. I also went back to tracking all my food intake (I had become lazy, going days without tracking or not tracking whenever I ate sugar or grazed) My next step is to increase my steps, another thing I let slip. My problem - I just stopped doing what I know I have to do. It feels so good to have some control again, esp. over the sugar. My cravings dropped to where I don't even think of it most of the time and my grazing stopped completely. I feel good, like I did at the beginning. As the others said, you can do this!

I know the feeling. I am sorry for your accident and tragedy. I started gaining weight after I was in an accident and could not exercise like I use to. I am feeling really sad because I saw my medical chart and saw how I have gained weight. I could tell in my body but greatfully not in my clothes. My eating habits is all out of sorts and exercising have diminished to when I really feel like it. I have fallen back to some of my old habits. I am trying to get back on track but it is difficult. Please, I desire help too. No one really understand my struggle.

FirstLady, I think we all might relate to your struggle, or at least for me I always knew what I should do, just didn't carry thru. I was in pre-op counseling for a long time before surgery, even lost 60 lbs, worked hard to do it, then surgery and the weight just fell off. Now its back to working hard. Putting into practice all that I learned pre-op. Only this time I have not only this wonderful tool but the knowledge to use it right. Now it's all up to me, but it's comforting to know that others struggle like me and so rewarding to see the scale go down, the clothes fit better and know I can still do this.

Christmas baking starts soon and I will need all the tools in my arsenal to get thru, coming here is one of the tools I will rely on, I stopped reading posts and didn't understand how important it is to continue to interact with other GP people until this week, I am not alone, there are so many of us who still struggle. Wishing you all the strength you need to feel confident in yourself to push thru and carry on losing weight.

Thank you so much Alcmac. The down side about this is that I had to learn this is my fight. If no one congratulate me, cheer for me, or encourage me, I have to do this alone. What has been difficult for me is that I am a spontaneous person and scheduling along with weighing portions had gotten tideous. I realized that those things was what helped me and I have to get back to that.

I also allowed other people to get in my head and convince me that: I exercisd too much, could eat certain things, that I was getting too thin.....etc..etc. What I didn't realize but know do is that is what helped and worked for me. I am learning to listen to my own voice again and do what is best for me!