The Gun is loaded - so what's your trigger?

What triggered me to eat myself to almost four hundred pounds is pure desire to eat.  I love to eat it had become a hobby for me.  So I have to be totally focused on something other than food to avoid my pure love to eat.  My whole life every event had to have food I am stopping that now.  Now I read, surf the web, make jewelry, or go to the gym to get my mind off of food.  I was always a volume eater now I am trying to be a quality eater.  I want quality food not junk.

I think my trigger is boredom. When there's nothing to do....I eat.  I've been turning that bad habit into a positive though, but choosing a healthy food choice or by getting up and moving around.

For me, I'm still fighting the same issues, but I'm getting better.  I eat for comfort and for replacement.  Okay, this gets a little personal, but here goes...

Comfort:  I eat when I finally slow down and relax in the evening.  When I'm having family time with my daughter and we are watching our shows then I get hungry.  I'm usually running around all day, even when I am working at home and don't want to eat.  As soon as I relax, then I can eat.  

Replacement:  I'm eating to replace the love, sex and affection I am not getting and haven't gotten in a long time.  BLAM!  I said it.  I have found myself standing in front of the open refrigerator at two in the morning, talking to myself saying "This is not the sex you want.  This is not the love you need.  Being lonely is why you over eat. You went through alot to have surgery, just close the fridge and go to bed!" 

Solution:  I have counseled with a therapist and my pastors.   Gods principle is this: Put into someone else's life what you need in yours.  God will take care of you.   I reach out now and try to be loving to others.  I try to focus on being a blessing.  I just try to fill my life with good people.  No, it isn't the same.  No, I don't get loved the way I need to, but it's better.

being awake

ok see, that's just WRONG!!!!  LMAOOOO

so what, post op yo ass sleep all the time???? 

I'm pre-op, and my trigger is my husband! When we are together we always feel like eating. Its like... 'Soooo what you wanna do?'.......'I don't know, lets go eat.'  

AHHH!!! I hope I can control it post-op....

Good topic..Im trying to figure it out. I know stress, fear and boredom.At work I notice I crave sweet things really bad. It is easier or me to have an easy good eating day when I am not working I've noticed. So I've got to find a solution cause a sister gotta work!

Well, mine is boredom and indecisiveness.  To tell the truth, I really love to drink more than to eat!! But let me actually get hungry then it's on.  I always hated when I was hungry and couldn't decide what to eat and I'd say oh pizza sounds good, fries too, ooh Chinese food is even better and rolls and of course my never emptying tea jug.  So I'd get me a pizza, fries, Chinese food  the rolls and my never ending jug of tea and what ever else sounded good at the time.  I wouldn't finish all of it, (except the tea) but I did make a good size dent in it though.  Now that I'm post-op, I'm  glad that I don't have the desire to eat, but I have this feeling that this won't last too much longer and I better be ready for it!!!

Pre-Op  -  I LOVED FOOD and LOVED to eat. Didn't matter the time,the day, the weather, my emotions....just didn't matter at all. **** I guess you could call me a food addict. Thinking about breakfast at dinner...thinking about lunch at breakfast...thinking about dinner at lunch....thinking what I could eat all the damn time. I LOVE ME SOME FOOD.

Post-Op - I STILL LOVE FOOD. However, because of surgery, physically, I can't do what I did at pre-op..of course. My mind is slowly coming along and I don't think about food all the time. It's weird because some of the food I used to love and would cut a neegee over now makes me nauseous when I think about it. Weird. Oh yes, I said would cut you about my food - pre op. CUUUUUT YOOOUU! LMAO!

Side note: Had it not been for WLS, I'm sure I would have tipped over into 400lbs. This food **** and the triggers aint not joke! Fo sho!

Annelle

My trigger is breathing,  every time I inhale food flies in my dam mouth.