HELP I AM HAVING ONE OF THEM WELL WEEKS,MONTHS OVEREATING!!!!

It feels like I am overeating but it is I am eating more frequently and even when i don't have a period.. please help what can i do to stop i don't wont' this surgery to fail My luck it will lisa

Hey, Lisa. I am sorry you are going through this, but most of us do at some point. And some of us worse than others. I know I struggled for a while and did self help books and everything else I could think of. And I did get a little better with doing the self help and lots of exercise, but it wasn't until I admitted to myself and the people closest to me that I had a problem and got professional help that I truly got under control where I wasn't afraid every minute of sabotaging myself. Therapy has done me a world of good and I still go once every 5 weeks or so for maintaining the work that has been done with me. My surgery was two and a half years ago and I have been maintaining my loss since Dec. 2004. And it hasn't been easy but well worth the hard work and therapy. I now feel more free than I ever have. I don't feel food controls me anymore. Email me if you want me to share my info with you. I will be glad to talk to you as I know where you are coming from. Good luck and don't give up, Melissa

Hey Lisa - I'm right there with you, and get a little panicky some times. But, I'm definately getting back to basics TODAY- protein first, green leafy vegs, 60+ water, not drinking while I eat..... I'm having to get back into the mode of "I can do anything for just one day".....SO, just concentrating on TODAY, and not worrying about tomorrow or later. The following is a post from the WLS grad board that I thought was GREAT....DeAnna. (copied from WLS grad board) Here's my thought as I hit the three-year mile marker. Most of us who are on the Web have run across the Darwin Awards, tales of colossal stupidity that are Urban Legends for the most part. One of the best is the guy who buys the recreational vehicle and drives it off the lot. He gets it out on the highway and is enjoying the road. It dawns on him that he would enjoy is more if he had something to drink, so he sets the cruise control, gets out of driver's seat and heads for the refrigerator in the back. Of course the results are predicable. The RV crashes. This Darwinian Superstar failed to understand the difference between the cruise control and an auto pilot. What has this to do with WLS? At the three year mile-marker, I would say just about everything. Here in Grad Land, we hear again and again of folks struggling and failing (yes I said 'failing') w/ WLS. One of the problems is that many did not appreciate how WLS works. Like our Darwinian Dimwit, they thought it would be an auto-pilot sort of effect. At three years either you are succeeding w/ WLS or you are already in a ditch somewhere w/ your tires in the air. The successful learned that WLS is like power steering, power brakes, cruise control, etc., that it enables them to control a mechanism that previously was beyond their ability. How do we say it so often? "It's a tool!" The controls are within our reach, but we still have to attend to them. You can build a vehicle with all the amenities that one can imagine and engineer, but there is nothing like an attentive driver to keep it on the road. I will never be normal. I will never be able to turn around and just let this thing take care of itself. And if we had a lick of sense, we would realize that most of the svelte among us have to do the same thing. Today is a new day to pay attention to road. It is not straight, nor is it always smooth. When events occur, we have to adjust. If we get off the road, we have to find a path back on to the main road. But more than anything else, we have to pay attention to the road we are on. We can never, and I repeat never, simply assume this machine drives itself. If you see me in a ditch w/ my tires in the air, remind me of this post.