What's your healthy comfort food?

We didn't become morbidly obese by eating broccoli or cauliflower as a comfort food. And if someone did, they were dunking it in 1,000 calories of bleu cheese dressing. 

What Kat said above is spot on. If you need comfort, find it in something healthy that is NOT food. Socialize. Volunteer. Exercise. Masturbate. Just stop thinking about food as the refuge you always retreat toward.

There is a big, slippery, slope. I've seen a lot of people go down it. It starts off in a place called "healthy, low-carb crackers," or "vegan pizza," or "low-fat cheese." It ends in a place called massive regain.

Stay away from the slope. Look into philately this time around.

I can't get the picture out of my mind, doing all those Grim Traveller healthy activities at the same time....

Thanks to all that responded, I definitely agreeing an ongoing thing and I am trying to concentrate on other things other than food. I also think that I meant by comfort food is if you have a craving for something how do you make it go away, and it seems most of you have already covered that by focusing on something else. 

I think it's hard for me to imagine how it is to not have crazy hunger where all I can think of is when is my next meal (I do pay attention if it's my head hunger or actual hunger). It sure didn't get any better with the band, so I am hoping RNY will help with constant hunger issue I am having. 

Ask your surgeon to cut your vagus nerve during the RNY.  That totally eliminated hunger for me.

Is that something they normally do? I will talk to my surgeon, thanks for suggestion!

Some surgeons do it and others do not.  Before surgery I was talking with my surgeon and told him I was worried about handling hunger after surgery.  He said not to worry about it because he would just cut the vagus nerve.

Some doctors are cutting the vagus nerve instead of performing weight loss surgery.  The vagus nerve sends hunger signals from the stomach to the brain.  Once it was cut I never was hungry again.

My vagus nerve was cut during my RNY.  I still feel hunger.  

I still want to eat things I should not -- I still want to binge.  

I have confirmed with my surgeon and the operative notes that my nerve was indeed cut.

I hate to be the voice of contention, but I am not sure that cutting the nerve is a guarantee for everyone.

I asked my surgeon about this, and he said he does not cut the vagus nerve. He said that research shows that a vagotomy by itself can make a pretty good impact on hunger, but that a vagotomy on top of an RNY has no statistical impact on hunger. But if it works for someone, the rest of the statistics don't matter.

There are different branches of the vagus nerve as well. It's an extensive system. And nerves have a habit of finding new pathways.

Odd, my surgeon doesn't like to cut the nerve either.  Quotes the same research.  Still, I was desperate.  I was hoping for some sort of miracle that would make me never want to eat again and solve my addiction without any effort from me.  He agreed to cut the nerve.  He actually cut it twice according to the operative notes which are very detailed.

I am glad that this does work for some people -- and I believe them that it does!!  However, I just want to state as someone who did have this done and it didn't work in the hoped for way, that doesn't make your surgery unsuccessful.  I just wouldn't count on it being a fail-safe.

In the same vein, there are people convinced that VSG will end hunger forever because of the reduction in ghrelin. For some people, hunger does, mostly, disappear for good, but for most, it seems to return by the one year mark, give or take.

It's just anecdotal, but VSG and RNY seem to have the same percrntages of those who never have hunger, and those for whom it returns. I would question if it has anything to do with ghrelin at all, especially since other parts of your body produce ghrelin, and there are other hormones that are responsible for hunger.

In the end, people would be better served by not RELYING on ghrelin, vagotomy, dumping, or anything else to solve their long term food issues. They are better off using their honeymoon period to lose the weight, and new habits and behaviors to keep it off.