Do you ever feel like the food police?

Now that I have had WLS, I am constantly on the watch out for what everyone  eats.  I have a hard time not criticizing my immediate family when I see them eating something that is unhealthy.  I know that this isn't right for me to do this.  My husband is a diabetic and he is constantly eating things that are unhealthy for him, it makes me sick, and mad, that he is compromising his health with unhealthy food. I also know that before I got serious about weight loss i did the same thing.  It is just so obvious to me now how people are killing themselves with food. I even watch what people are eating that I don't even know.  I was at a ball game sitting next to a woman who in the 3 hrs. that we were there she ate a Frito chili pie, a soft pretzel with cheese, 2 Dr. Peppers, popcorn, and a snickers bar.  I just wanted to stand up and scream "Don't you people know what you are doing to your bodies."  I am mostly concerned about my husband, daughter, and son.  I was told when I came home from surgery that "just because you can't eat that stuff doesn't mean that we can't". I no longer buy junk food when I go grocery shopping so they don't get the junk food from me, but they do find other ways to get it.  I guess I need to realize that everyone has to take it upon themselves to eat healthy and care about their own health.     Thanks for letting me vent.   Rosielocks   

I can so totally relate, but unfortunately for them I am the only parents so my kids are now eating MUCH healthier too even if they don't really want to. They do get treats but are more from church and my mom than me. And  they are exercising with me and I have limited their game time on the game they got for Christmas chores and some exercise must be done first.

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Rosie,

I had the exact same issue when i first ad my surgery.  i thought I was paranoid about it, but in the end, i knew that I ate the same things that they're eating before the WLS.  It's so amazing how blinded I was to the problem. I knew when i was on my diet that i would lose a massive quantity of weight, but when it was time to go off diet..there were no boundries that I wasn't willing to cross.  It was like I was in an eating competition, except not contest... sad but true...

The tool has me right where I should have been years ago.  very lucky that I was able to have what I wanted.  I don't miss the really bad things that made me fat anymore....although there is this chillidog....  argh...  wink..

T.

OMG did you say the words "frito chilli pie"....wow that sounds so good.....bad thomas...bad, bad... slaps own hand...

T.

Rosie, you are not the only one who does this. I am on my 30 day pre op diet and I have been doing this too. I have got to stop it. I am driving my family crazy and I am driving my family crazy. Like you, I have quit buying junk. I bought cheese sticks, sugar free jello and pudding, and things like that for snacks. They have been eating them and not complaining. so there is some positive coming from it. I can only pray that I don't get worse after surgery.

I grew up with the food police, so I don't actually say it, but yes, I think it.

I really thought I would turn in to the food police but it hasn't happened yet.  I think I still think like a fat person.  Although I have to say that the Edmond walking group had lunch at iHop last weekend and there was a kid there, about 10 years old, eating pancakes and french fries.  I have to say that I did do a double take on that one.

I guess it's still too fresh on my mind as to how much I could really pack away before surgery.  I still sometimes take too much food.  You'd think that 7 months later I'd be better at this.  I also need to learn to eat slower so the fullness signs get to my brain before I eat too much.  But that's for an other post.

I have to say that pancakes with french fries should make anyone take a double take.  I know that it is none of my business what others eat, but it's hard for me to not look.  It is very disturbing to see what America is eating.  But I know that there was a time when I didn't even give a second thought or evidently a first thought to what I ate.  And I'm like you GlitterGal, I still put to much food on my plate, and I also eat to fast, but this is something I am also working on. A life time of habit isn't broken overnight.  It's funny to me and sad because before I had surgery I would swear up and down that I didn't eat a lot, but now that I am aware of what I am eating, good lord I can't believe I ate as much as I did, probably enough to keep 3 grown adults alive.   Rosie

Me too!  I swore that I didn't really eat that much compared to my "skinny" co-workers.  But I was fooling myself and, man, I was good at it.  Incredible how we can be believe something so far removed from reality!