Ate something 8 days post op

I ate a doughnut today. The last ouple of days when i cook for my son i pick at his plate..a spoonful of rice...a sliver of chicken..im prob ruining my pouch.. still supposed to be on full liquids. i am in a house`all day thats not mine filled with FOOD FOOD FOOD..everything..im not tyring to make excuses..i just feel soooo disocuraged..and I havent even gotten sick! Tried to make myself sick, but couldnt..im like GREA****ch im one of the ones that can still eat everydamn thing. If anyone can share their experience strength and hope?.....

Why? WHY? WHY?    I bet you're asking yourself that!  You screwed up, but what you did is in the past.  LIVE NOW!!!.  Live in the moment and get on a liquid diet immediately!  If you do continue to eat solid food, you will have physical problems.  Do you want to fail?  I can only recommend that you follow the post-op diet that was given to you.  You are at a point where you have to take responsibility for your eating.  You may have eating problems for the rest  of your life, but you risk jeopardizing your health now if you don't follow the post-op diet.

You may want to get some post-it notes and leave reminders throught the house that you must follow your food plan.  Let's face it:  even if the house where you are staying were not filled with food, tempting food is available at almost every moment of every day in most parts of this country.  You can always go out to a fast food joint or a convenience store if you don't have tempting food in the house.  You just have to decide that you are not going to have it today.

You may have to act like any other addict and stay away from addictive substances.  I'd say take it a day at a time, but when you start out you may have to just count the hours that you are clean.  Eventually you will string together many hours free from addictive food.  For now, you must stay clear of anything solid until you are allowed off of the liquid diet.  Again, avoid solid food.  If you get tempted, find something else to do.  You can make a list of distraction techniques that you can use when you do become tempted. 

I strongly urge you to get the workbook for the Beck's Diet Solution to learn many other strategies for staying on a diet.

The post op diet is to allow your pouch and reconnections to heal. If you eat food, you might be able to tolerate it, but you run the risk of delaying healing and developing ulcers at the connection sites which could potentially never heal. Do you really want to do that! Stop now and get on the diet ordered and just eat those things. Keep a glass of milk on the counter when you are cooking for your son. When tempted to take a taste of his food, take a sip of milk instead. Unless you are cooking for your son stay out of the kitchen.

I just wanted to provide some positve suggestions.  First of all, I also use a book called FOOD ADDICTION:  THE BODY KNOWS by Kay Sheppard.  The edition I have was revised and published in 1993 so I don't know if it's still in print.  It provides tests about food addiction and gives food addicts diets.  Most of us already know if we are food addicts.

Secondly, continue to post here as well as on the Main Forum.  If you are concerned about how your early eating may have affected your pouch, call your surgeon's office.  Prepare yourself because some staff members may not be as understanding as you would wish ( when I had my revision, I went to the surgeon's office and the nurse berated me for not losing weight quickly enough--I'm bi-polar and may have misinterpreted her motivation--but I was so annoyed that I never went back to his office again.  It wasn't until a few years later that I realized that she may not have been as negative as I felt she was.  All I'm saying is to not expect your surgeon's office to be all sweet and fuzzy about your news.  However, you probably should give them a call.  In the meantime, please get on the liquid diet and start living an hour at a time until you are able to get some days strung together.  I know that, after you are abstinate for a few hours, you may look at longer blocks of time such as knowing that you were clean for the morning, or the afternoon, or evening.  Soon you can string those blocks of time into days. 

If you want to contact me directly, just send me a PM through OH by clicking on the CONTACT block below.  Bob

Thank you, Bob, for telling us about that book.  I'm going to search for that, or at least for other books on food addiction.

Hello.  i totally understand how you feel and what you are going through.  Although I did not eat any solid food 8 days post op, I was well into week three when I ate something I had no business.  While I was allowed to eat 1/4 of a baked potato, one day during week three, I was so hungry and I had stopped at Checkers for my kids, therefore, I ate 4-5 french fries out of my daughter's bag.  I chewed very slowly and I did not get sick either.  Another thing that is kind of confusing is that we read all of these forums and see what other people are doing in our week that we are not allowed to do.  We must remember that every surgeon is different and only our surgeon knows our needs.  While I am not perfect and am also guilty of falling off the wagon, I must remind myself that everyday is a new day and I need to use my tool properly.

thanks...not the end of th world..im back on track today! thanks

That's great!  Keep up the good work!

I was banded last week 7/15/09 and I already ate something. I ate spinach I also ate chicken teriaki that I blended up in the blender until it was the consistency of mush I feel so bad but iam also So hungery I didn't think I would feel this type of hunger after being banded. No fills done yet, does it ever get better?

Free Spirited1 Remember the first six months after WLS is very important that you follow the program. You want to lose as much weight as you can at this point. So please follow your surgeons and nutritionist plan so that you can lose the most that you can. After 6 months the weight will be harder to take off.
Renee