Food Addiction, Abstinence, and Honesty

If you are a food addict, you should know that WLS does not solve your problems with it.  The only way to deal with food addiction is to abstain from eating your addicting foods.  They may not be the same for all of us.  And, surprisingly, the amount that triggers our addiction can vary from person to person.  I remember one person I knew years ago who couldn't use soy sause because of trace amounts of sugar or carbs in it.  Most of you know what your problem foods are and should make efforts to avoid them.  If you find yourself having problems with your eating and you think you are following a food plan that eliminates your addictive foods, you may have to look at food labels for hidden ingredients or misleading claims.  For example, some "whole wheat" bread is actually white bread enriched with whole wheat flour.  I had that problem for a while and now eat Peperidge Farms light whole wheat bread--about 4  cal per slice.

You are so right! I had gastric bypass 01-21-09 and have lost 125 pounds. I discovered over Christmas that eating 6 chocolate chip cookies did NOT give me the dumping syndrome and have it hard to resist sugar ever since. I just have to make sure it's nowhere around me or I WILL eat it.

Over the weekend I found myself wishing that sugar gave me dumbing syndrome.
I tried a piece of Easter candy (malted milk Easter egg) and then I "tried" 4 more. 
Going home today and flushing the rest of them down the toilet!!!!!

Greasy foods don't sit well with my pouch...I just wish sugar had the same effect. 
But I didn't go thru this surgery to have a little piece (or 5) of candy ruin it for me!!!!

 

Don't get me wrong.  Even with my knowledge of food addiction, I still indulge in unhealthy eating.  I hope to be able to eat properly when I feel like it.  My ultimate problem is that I may feel like following my post-op diet for 20+ hours per day but I do get weak at other times.  My irregular sleeping may affect my thinking.  I sometimes get lost in my thought--not lost in thought in  a good way.  I don't work due to manic-depression and I have no responsibilities.  I end up watching too much TV;  I'd say I easily watch over 6 hrs of TV per day.  And, we all know how dangerous that can be.

However, right now I don't want to give up the TV nor the addicting foods.  I can try to control the amounts I have in the house.  I know that may be stupid.  I also know that this is ingenuous behavior for someone who has followed the Beck's Diet Solution in the past. 

I so plan on following the plan beginning in May for personal reasons.  I can iterate all the reasons that I should start it now, but I just want to delay until past my 60th birthday party.  I can still help people how to work Beck's because I have worked it in the past.  Right now it's more do as I say than do as I do.

If you go to the Becks Group ( no apostrophe) you'll be able to read the posts of several women who are actively working that program.  You can ask them questions about the Days or lessons on that program as you come to them.