** WHY EAT AROUND YOUR SURGERY***

if you NEVER take a drink of alcohol or eat a candy bar or have a soda, or a bite of cheesecake, or a pretzel or a potato chip  or anything else that YOU deem bad, I will fall at your feet and do the" I'm not worthy" bow


food is not good or bad
food is food
YOU give it conotations that are good or bad...


I have not forgotten where I came from and where I could go right back to....

I get on that scale every morning if I see a 2 at the end of my number I'm spot on freaking PERFECT till I get back down to where I WANT to be.  I am on any given day 8-11 pounds below my doctor's goal.  His comment to me last week in the hosptial was "now we have to keep you from wasting away"

why in the world should I not enjoy myself if i can?

if all i needed to worry about was protein and nutrition I could have 3 protein shakes a day and my supplements.   that's not living.   truth is I am never really hungry and I eat because it's TIME to eat.  goes against everything we've been taught to only eat when we are hungry... but if I did that I'd NEVER eat.



why do we try it...   BECAUSE it's there... because everyone else is enjoying it because you're a year or two out and life is NORMAL again...    


do yourself a favor and bookmark this thread and come back to it a year after your surgery....  trust me pre-op we all wondered WHY folks went back to trying things we all swore we never would.

don't be so high and mighty and think you are special or immuned to human nature.


It's scary to think that one day you might actually be able to eat ONE cookie...   I had 3 solid milk chocolate balls last night after dinner... less than one ounce of chocolate total.  I was fine.  My hubby who dumps like a truck had ONE and he was fine...   we all learn our limits.  you will learn yours too.

"I had 3 solid milk chocolate balls last night after dinner..."

THE HELL YOU SAY!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!   and you dont fear 4 tomorrow and 6 next week? 
You proudly share this?

I DONT WANT WHAT YOU HAVE>>>>GIGGLES

I fear this and wish you all the SUCCESS IN YOUR JOURNEY

NO I don't fear 4 today or tomorrow or 6 next week.

I may have 3 after dinner tonite.  3 is plenty.  

You will learn this...  and if you can't control it then you won't do it.

There are things I cannot control.   I don't keep them in the house (STACY'S PITA CHIPS) but I eat them when I go to friends.... because it's ONCE in a while.

and yes I PROUDLY SHARE that I can EAT a LITTLE chocolate or ONE cookie or a SMALL piece of CHEESECAKE.

I have a very very very grouchy pouch... I feed it what I can  IF I ate ONLY protein and what you seem to think is acceptable weight they would have me in the hospital on a feeding tube.

OMG Stacy's Pita Chips WITH Trader Joes Mediterranean Hummus - It's my weekend food cuz I can't leave it alone till it's gone either!

omg i just came from there and picked some up.

Nessa, you and I are very similar (except I have a super grouchy pouch AND I dump).... if only ate when I was hungry, I'd be dead. Seriously. I have to PUSH myself to eat because I'm bad at remembering. Hubby helps and makes sure I eat often.

It was impossible, TRULY impossible to even GRASP what it was like to be postop. This is nto a put down to the pre-ops in the room. I wondered the very same thing the OP wondered.... but the posts I read were so alien, that I just KNEW that there was something I wasn't getting. So I waited until I was postop to comment on what seemed outta control behavior.

Then I had surgery, and my eyes were opened and I could see! (insert religious music soundtrack or sumpin)

I do eat chocolate nearly every day.... or rather, I give myself PERMISSION to eat chocolate every day, but even that doesn't seem all that interesting. I'm now, due to my surgery, battling the issue of zero hunger and worried about the whole wasting away thing.... seriously! 

I wish I could eat more, and have more meat on my bones. Calories so far today: 750

now I'm at about 1400 calories but it's because i had nuts for my snack and i eat cheese a couple of times a day.... and my protein is at least 90 today...


and yes I just finished dinner and my 3 chocolate balls.... I am sure tomorrow my weight will be over my drop dead number and I will be as good as gold tomorrow...

I'm trying to LOSE weight, and GAIN weight simultaneously. I'm only 0.3 pounds now from being at TWO HUNDRED pounds lost..... but I don't WANT to be thinner. I'm a weirdo! 

One of these days I will likely get some therapy, as I have come to realize I have my eating disordered issues. I've been TALKING about it a lot lately.... because I firmly believe that sharing my struggles will help me to find some way out of this wilderness of my own making. Enough people care about me, and I've used this support system here on OH to keep me honest.

I weigh daily as my #1 method of fighting regain (and encouraging it too, I'm so weird!)..... Helps me to be focused as nothing else does.

girl we are so in the same place   the WLS doc and the PS do not want me or need me to lose any more weight.

I would like to lose about 5-7 more pounds...  

i'm not trying really hard to lose,  I'm not trying to gain.  I just know if i get on the scale and see that 2 or higher i'm so damn good...