Hello khaupt!!:

How are you doing since your last post here??

I would have responded to you sooner, but I am new to this site. Since reading your post, I have been thinking of you and sending you lots of good thoughts and prayers for healing.

You have a lot going for you, you know. You have a record of successful weight loss, of consistent posting to OH (a wonderful source of support and interaction, which I think is critical for us), the tool of your WLS (other posters here are absolutely correct that you need medical evaluation right away to make sure that your post-surgical digestive system is doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing to help you to lose/maintain), and, as drleelee has very wisely pointed out, you have the enormous resources and social support of the Mormon Church!

Does the surgeon who did your WLS have support groups/dieticians connected to his practice? Can you access those resources? Or, if you are no longer geographically close to those resources, how about through your local hospital? Can your primary care physician refer you to bariatric resources in your local area? Do you get your health care thru the military? -- there may be some resources there, as well. I am also thinking of things like Overeaters Anonymous or Emotions Anonymous -- in addition to face-to-face meetings, these organizations often have online support available. I have found the support of Overeaters Anonymous to be very helpful to me.
 
You can always find out what resources are available in your community by dialing 2-1-1 (this is true throughout most of the USA).

Also, I so "get" the emotional eating problem! In addition to psychotherapy (the hospital where you were hospitalized for depression -- do they have individual counseling or support or therapy groups available to you??) and/or social support resources such as Overeaters Anonymous, I have found a fantastic online resource that has is really helping me to get a handle on the emotional eating -- this is a website created by a physician, Dr Michelle May, (she has an article on OH about portion control) -- her website is amihungry.com -- her book "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat" -- I have it on Nook, downloaded to my phone! -- has helped me so much! On her website she has a new workbook designed especially for bariatric surgery patients, the workbook is designed to go with the Eat What YOu love book. The basic idea is about mindful eating. Another very powerful book about mindful eating is "Mindful Eating" by Jan Chozen Bays, MD -- I have also found this to be helpful.

Right now it seems like you have several avenues of attack:

1. clarifying any medical issues going on with your surgery
2. getting nutritional advise from a registered dietician
3. social isolation -- this makes depression worse, as you know! -- get in a support group, go to church, go to meetup.com to see if there are any interesting things going on in your community, whether or not they have anything to do with weight management!
4.lack of exercise -- I know that you realize that exercise is an important part of managment of depression -- now that the horrible heat seems to have (finally!!) abated here in California, you could do gentle exercise things like going for short walks with your daughter. Maybe meetup.com will have a group in your area of mothers who would like to get together for brief walks, with their children and strollers, and enjoying the crisp autumn air...
 
I hope that this helps! You have so much going for you -- you have so many resources available to you, and an important resource is your own desire to get better, which you clearly have expressed and shown! Please of course also consider that your child has much to benefit from you feeling better -- she loves you and wants to play with you and go for walks with you to look at the autumn leaves!

I send you a BIG shot of support, Khaupt! Please let us know how you are doing! Hang in there!

==Swizzlequeen

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