Whats your Krytonite

    I just wanted to tell you I am not superman..... Food is my Kryptonite...... I found that out, I didnt want to admit it buts its real..... You know the thought before surgery, "Once this is done (WLS) I never have to worry about food again"  and then like a speeding bullitt .....     I see so many people looking for the magic answer..... I get tired of the news telling me I took the easy way. Its not easy, in fact in many ways this is one of the hardest things I have ever done.... The further I get away the more I find that balance is what I need ,,,, Balance meaning Diet exersize and lately trying to find a happy place in my heart...... When I am happy because I am working hard at my dreams and proud of what I am feeling,,, life is in balance...     The truth is most of all WLS patient are stress eaters.... My Dr told me that years ago..... I told him, no I  just liked to eat,,,,, He was so right...... I found this week that life was a little stressful and what did I do... @ 2 weeks of diet exersize  feeling good about me...... down the dumper when I got on the scale ..... Yea I gained !!!! Is it the end of the world ...NO , Why ? Because every bite I took was my weekeness and I knew it....        Food is my friend but yet my biggest enemy.... Kinda like that one friend we all have that always wants something... That one friends that wants to be in your face to help you  in one step yet throw you to the dogs in the next.....     Today an old friend told me "wow you still look great after your surgery I see your keeping it off. I thought it would kill you."...... I wanted to so say UM well I get in a car everyday hoping to fall asleep so I can hit a telephone pole and die.... DUHHHHH ... This surgery was in alot what makes me today... not so much the fact that it worked ,,, But the fact is that I have worked hard on trying to learn and teach others what may or may not work for them. I dont go out and preach the surgery... but if you ask .... I will tell you FOR ME it worked..... On the flip side, I shrug my shoulders over the train wrecks i sometime see... SO many people go into this surgery so blind.....Thank our lucky stars for websites like this that have an open forum for people to ask questions and get answers from people like alll of you .....      As for those Onion rings I inhaled this week and got sick for two hours on ...... thank you .. For that fried chinese chicken I had ....,thank you... I still dump.... I still have my little electric dog collar.... and it shock the freeholas out of me......    Food ,,,you are my Kryptonite.... but I will not fail because even when you take me down I have friends right here that will gather around me to protect me and help me gain my strength...... To all of you.... thanks for keeping me real....ron

Now that I can relate too... thank you for posting and hitting a nerve or two that I couldn't have said better myself!!

That was awesome Ron. Thanks for sharing and encouraging me in the process. You just said what I felt but could not put into words..... Pam 

amen! I saw someone this past weekend that I had not seen in 10 years.. they were shocked at my size and asked "How did you do it!?" I said "I had gastric bypass" then i got the usual "OHHhh" and looked away, like they were let down by my answer as if i had done it the "Easy" way.. I said to that "it took something drastic like that to regain myself so that I could lose the weight and maintain it on my own, I was to the point at 320 lbs that if i went running i would get stress fractures in my feet, so that was where i was and now i am to the point that i CAN run again and keep myself healthy and know where i came from"  I HATE having to defend my WLS. i get to the point that I am ASHAMED to tell someone i had the surgery. it would be so much easier to say "I ate 5 small meals a day and dieted and exercised" which isn't a lie, but a little stretch of the truth.. But yet I still tell people, gastric bypass.. Why? because i should be PROUD of where I came from, and I know in my heart that this was a hard ass journey and i fight with it daily and if i let myself go I will do what they all expect of me, To Fail. Sad but true.. It seems like I shock some people who are "Against" surgery when they see that I am still keeping my weight off.. like they are looking for a failure. The compliments stopped after a few mths of drastic weight loss, now i feel like im a side show they look to to see if i gain. But , these people are the people who will push me to NOT gain my weight back.. because I love to prove people wrong..  which reminds me, I need to get in more protein and get off the junk food kick! LOL

Thank you for the wisdom, we are only human and will continue to learn everyday. Sharon