What's in your head, WLSers?(11-6-17)

Well (gulp!), I'll just answer the question.

At 3 years and almost 3 months post-VSG and almost 72, I'm doing great. Weight is good. Food tastes good. No body dysmorphia. Chronic knee pain still gone. Lots more energy. Dressing cute. Feeling cute.

I still plan and track my food in MFP daily, weigh every morning, exercise 5-6 days a week, take my supplements, eat slower, etc. etc. You all know the drill.

Yes, I've got stresses and challenges in daily life, the details of which I'll spare you. After all, everybody's got problems, right? But none of my stresses and challenges have much to do with my weight or food.

I'm still just as thrilled as I was when I lost my first 50 pounds.

BTW, 3 months ago I decided that during Year Four I'm going to eat 8 veggies and fruits daily, which is going great. As a result, I've lost another 4 pounds (down to 131 now) and have increased my daily cals by 100 to stop losing weight. I dunno if this would apply to others, but apparently eating more V/Fs has raised my metabolism.

Nothing about this sucks!

This was wonderful to read!

I haven't been on the general boards in a while, glad I popped in today. This is a good idea for a thread Julie!

I'm in pain on a daily basis which I have to manager which in turn makes me frustrated and overwhelmed and not want to deal with having to watch every single thing I eat. So then I eat whatever and then I beat myself up over it. And repeat. Vicious cycle.

I know that my pain may not be going anywhere so I really need to figure out how to manage the WLS head game on a daily basis with this being my normal. It had become kinda second nature to me - managing the WLS lifestyle and now throwing in the pain and everything I'm overwhelmed and frustrated and anxious pretty much 90% of the time.

is it physical pain or emotional?

hugs for you

It's a combo for me. I have daily chronic almost non stop migraines.

mute ... so sorry!

Hey girl!

What a great thread! We get so caught up in the physical side of wls, we forget about or neglect the emotional side of it. We pretty much have a good idea of what we should eat, & push thru to goal but there are serious head games to go thru along the way & stay with us, after goal, maybe even for life, which *** s with our head even more.

Honestly I feel a lot of the regain problems, or not making it to goal really is dealing with the **** in our heads, not on our plates, even though not dealing with the **** in our heads leads to **** on our plates.

Yeah I'm a little raw & so not pc at times.

Like the other day i was feeling a little sad, & didn't really know why, then got pissed at myself for feeling sad, bought food that I shouldn't have, didn't eat it all, but kept thinking why am I doing this **** yet again. Now gotta do the all internal dialogue thing, meanwhile my calories & carbs got screwed up that day. While I'm glad I didn't spiral downward like I used to do in the past & figure well I already ate this, might as well keep it going, it irritates me that I was avoiding my feelings to begin with & should've kept in mind that it's ok to be sad every now & then & that my happiness isn't at the store.

Good on you for throwing on the brakes!!!

"My happiness isn't at the store" is going to be something I tell myself daily from now on.