Oh my God, wish I had read this two weeks ago along with the replies. i have had the brain hunger and the justiification of eating and enjoying it while it last, food and drink. My logic part of my brain screams no becuase my weight will just go up.

Terrie, thanks to your honesty and others willing to help, I am gonna try to stop justification of junk food eating. I just minutes ago picked at left over chicken wings and it is almost 11 at night. i never ate after supper until two weeks ago.

thank you Terrie and others. I need to do an about face to. we all can do this.

Tammy

I had my first referal 5 years ago and also a referal from Dr Martin who is chief of surgery for the HSC and Dr Pace's partner in the WLS program also a new referal sent Oct 2010 and a new one March 2011 ...I have very good overall health, I'm about 270 lbs and  Its not looking good for me either, so I feel like no matter what I do nothing will help.....I'm now on my 100Th diet and also pretty close to looking into surgery in Mexico...I can't afford the bypass in Canada...Way too much money :(   Good luck with everything....I hope it all works out for you.

maybe we will Newfie02 that would be so fun.
Don't worry Terri your turn is just around the corner.Talk to you all soon.

Hi Everyone
Today I could just stay in bed and cry ...I know I need to stay positive but it's so hard...I've started diet number 100 I think prob is more like 200 but let's just say that. I feel like I'll never get the surgery been on the list for 5 years ....when will this end?? I'm on a 1200 calorie diet  Starving pretty much and I might be lucky to loose 1 lb a week so with that said...it would take me  2 years to loose my weight...I had so much hope for surgery with Dr pace but the more I read on here the more discouraged I get...I have put in a new referal and have done everything I know to do....I can't exercise due to my much needed hip surgery that my specials wont do until my weight is off and also I need a bone transplant on top of it all...arrrggg...reading this just made me more depressed...I've checked into paying for the surgery myself here in Canada but its way too expensive, I'm wondering now If I should take the risk and have it done in Mexico...I'm so desperate :(

I SO agree with the last post. And not only will it be more weight to take off later - it is making you a more un-healthy pre-op patient - and you want to be as healthy as you can to make your surgery as trouble free as possible. As an RNY patient - I CAN eat a Tim's Donut - I can eat pizza - I can eat pretty near anything I want. I don't dump. I still have good restriction - so the amount I eat is limited. I HAVE to make good food choices - or I could easily eat my way back to where I was pre-op - and that's not the plan. The miracle for me is that I still NEVER feel hunger. I have head hunger - it's a battle. You will be able to eat most things again - but not for a while. So don't go nuts having things just because you may never have them again. Good luck and take care!