Daily Post--4/16 and 4/17/08
Okay, everyone gets a freebie for the 4/16 daily post as it is now almost 10 pm EST and I never got one posted! SO, the topic for the 4/17 post is from one of the group... It is a great discussion topic!! Here goes:
Do you feel like everyone around you can eat normal and you cant eat anything. Like when you go to a luncheon, its all sandwich bread or pizza and chips and soda. I have these kind of situations several times a month, and no one has gotten the hint and they dont even have bottled water at them. I need to just avoid them all together but it gets hard.
How do you handle these situations? I used to just say I had already eaten and just drink my own water I bring. But its getting very old.
Yes! Just this weekend at a meeting I attended they had sub sandwiches, chips, cookies (Big and delicious looking cookies) and carbonated water and sugar filled italian ice thingys. I ended up leaving the meeting when it was time to eat because I was feeling weak and really wanted one of those cookies. So usually I deal with this by finding healthy ways to eat inspite of the selection, like only eating the meat insides of the sandwich and leaving the bread..but that would not have satisfied me so I left. This does get old...can't wait to read the other replies
Yes. I feel that what I can eat vs. what others can eat is limited. It's hard when everyone wants to order pizza and I can't eat any because of the crust and the fat. But I just bring my own food and eat. I tell myself that I'm healthy and thinner and remind myself of all I can do now and that helps me to get thru it without feeling deprived.
Sometimes. I went to 3 days of orientation for my new job, each day they provided food. I just brought my own. Then the 1st day of work, they had muffins, I declined saying I didnt eat muffins, people looked at me like I was crazy. I have told some people at this job that I had surgery, because they wondered why I never ate, and always declined the treats and things. I have been there 2 and a half weeks and there has been some kind of food 7 days, and some of those days more than 1 time, and I only work 3 days per week.
Vivienne
Boy do I know what you mean!! This week at work we had a business lunch so I chose some soup and I got a vegetarian dieters delite sandwich. I then took everything on the sandwich, lettuce, turkey, sprouts, cucumbers and tomato, scraped it off the bread and make that into a salad. It gets so hard!!!!! Everyone at work supports me so wonderfully, but I'm to the point where I just don't enjoy going out anywhere to eat anymore. I'd just rather eat whatever I bring for my lunches or eat at home.
Michele
If possible I scape everything off and eat just the toppings or whatever. If i can't do that, I eat only a very small portion of what is served. It is hard at times and I do end up cheating at times, but I sure try to be good. And I do have to live in the outside world so I do the best i can. And a meal here and there is not going to sabatage myself.
Jolene
Yea, I agree to a point. It's like an alcoholic that is trying to stay sober and they go somewhere where they are serving alcohol. If you put an alcoholic beverage and a non-alcoholic beverage on a tray and you walk up to the alcoholic KNOWING they are in recovery...do you turn the tray to them only offering the non-alcoholic choice?
It is their choice to make and their decision to grab the alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink. Just like it was our decision to have the surgery. Maybe the place holding the luncheon doesn't know they should be WLS friendly. I think we need to prepare for those types of situations and bring our own in case. It does get old, but it is something WE CHOSE to have done. 
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