Overate at lunch..my fault

geez...why am I so stupid sometimes? I went with friends to KFC and got a pot pie for lunch (I know, already not the best choice) and ate WAY, WAY too much of it. No, I didn't throw it up (wish I could)...instead, my stomach hurts soooo badly that I feel rotten. How long will it take for me to learn not to do this to myself? And I have no one else to blame...just me. I knew I was going to regret it while I was eating it and that STILL didn't stop me. Obviously I've conquered some weight, but I've still got alot of weight-issues to do a better job of dealing with. It's a long road. You don't have to respond to this; I just needed to be honest and accountable to someone and this is the only place where people might understand compulsive eating after surgery. Julie 247 / 172 / 140ish

Hi Julie, Looks like we were in the same boat in the last 24 hours. I have my young nieces visiting (11 & 12). My mom and I took them to Ruby Tuesdays yesterday for lunch. We all ordered a different kind of appetizer and planned to share. These kids are both tall and skinny as a rail and can eat like nobodies business!! I ordered salad bar and had a very very small amount of salad with eggs, black olives, cucumbers, and dressing. I was at the stopping point when i was done with that BUTTTTTT the food came and i ate a buffalo wing and a mozzerella cheese stick. Within 20 minutes of finishing I felt miserable. This is the first time I have had this sick feeling like that. I have learned that i can only eat very very small amounts of food and that is why i eat about every 3 hours and use protein drinks in between so i don't get really hungry. Don't beat yourself up about this. I'm not because I know that it is an NNNTHHH of what I would have eaten before and I don't believe in the pouch stretching theory this early in the game (not without becoming violently ill).....however, i have to confess that when i got on the scale for my monday morning weight in i was up 1.5 pounds.....don't think it had anything to do with what i ate but ya never know. This is a learning process and it is going to take us things like overeating like this to learn that we can't do it. On a bright note....i met a lady saturday night that had the old fashioned stomach stapling done in 1988 and she still looks and feels wonderful! i noticed that she only ate 1/2 of a hamburger and got rid of the bread. When we commented to each other that we didn't eat very much she told me about her surgery!

I think the biggest thing is about choices period. All of us know what our triggers were pre-op. Mine cheeze nips....So now if I want some I get a 30cent bag and that is it and only about 2 times a month. Now as for the pot pie did you eat the crust? Could it be the amount of fat in the thing? I have found that my pouch and i have a hit or miss relationship. Last week at a work function I ordered a "cup" of loaded potato soup which I have had numerous times since surgery. You know what with in 10 minutes I had to go outside I was sick the rest of the day. Sometimes we make bad choices but even those "thin" people make them. But the key is to balance your choices. Pot pie not "the" best but also NOT the worst....So just remember those that are the most successful learn how to balance their diet. althea -90

Julie, We all have made bad choices at times. Don't feel badly about this one. I have found that if food sits in front of me it is more tempting to nibble at it. Tonight we ate out at the mall food court. I got shrimp tacos and ate the shrimp and some of the cabbage. Well I started to nibble at the chips so I asked Hal if he minded if I walked over to the book store while he finished his meal. He said no, so I got up and dumped the chips and looked at books till he came over. If I stay at the table with him, I take the remaining food and dump it if we are doing fast food (like the shrimp tacos). If we are in a restaurant I put the plate of remaining food away from me so that I can't reach it. If it is something "healthy" that I can take home I asked the staff for a doggy bag right away. Sometimes at the mall I tell them the meal is to go and I close it up as soon as I have eaten my share for that meal. It is a journey of learning new habits and unlearning old ones. Mary