Physcological thing

 How many people have dealt with the issues that have gotten them to over eat or eat emotionally in the first place?
How has this contributed the the success of keeping your weight off?

Tina

I am currently in therapy as I know I ate to just cover my feelings up.  So, it is a work in progress.  HARD work at that.  Good luck!

Way to go Lisa!  Thats awesome...I have been doing the same thing for a few years, it's a continual life long commitment i have made to myself

What a fantastic question. I went through the Northern Cal Kaiser program, and in most respects think it is the best program ever!! Except that one issue... I wish they had given us classes on that. I, like most of us, ate emotionaly. So now you CAN'T!! I wish I had found a way to deal with stress better prior to surgery. I now use working out to ease my stress and pain. But we all have to be very careful. There is an extremely high rate of alcoholism for post ops...

I had the opposite issue but it was still a problem..... I stress UN ate.....I would hardly eat. Before surgery I kept tract of what I ate and it was approx 1200 calories....when I pushed myself to eat. I could go all day and not eat till dinner. Well with my metabolic disorder and stalling my metabolism because I would not eat I kept gaining weight.

So they decided to fix my metabolic problem I needed to have surgery plus at the time I had 4 other co-morbidity's. The dietitian and the psychologist I had to see were both concerned that I would not eat enough after surgery.

I have had to work hard to make myself eat 5 times a day but it has helped me in some weird mental way. I know I HAVE to eat so I just do it. In my head I feel like I am eating way to much but the reality is I'm lucky to get 600 to maybe at the max 800 calories in a day and I see that when I do eat regular I lose the weight and when I do not eat so much I stall......crazy game I have to play.

 Interesting story LMlavender... thats great that you are on the right track now!