Getting Used to Food Deprivation

I remember about 8   years ago I used to drink alot of beer and chain smoke while drinking..and I thought  "no way i can give up drinking and my smokes"...   I enjoy it to much    now I drink mabye 4 times a year on special occasions  and even then only one or two.. havent picked up a cigarette in 7 years and even get sick if i smell one now..  I'm making the same mental adjustment in my brain now regarding food since my surgery     no more craving for three big macs after a long workday.. or a whole pizza pie  and washing it down with a whole 2 liter of mountain dew by myself..  these are also things i didn't feel i was going to be able to give up before I considered surgery  because I got rid of my other vices and it was all i had left...     i think back now how i was choking down food far after the feeling of fullness  and wondering how  I was even eating the way i was and not being over 700 pounds instead of 400 at my heaviest..     I guess along with the physical lap band  we start to adjust the invisible brain band overtime to get control of overeating   

I know just what you mean. I've gone through the same thought process: I'll give up this, that, or the other thing, but not [fill in the blank]. The substance or the behavior that seemed so essential to me at the time eventually lost its power or appeal, I guess because I was addressing my invisible "needs" in other, more effective, and healthier ways.

Jean

I have been extremely fortunate to have made the transition from the deprived attitude to one of "this is all I need, and I want what I need". I don't know how or when I changed but I have. I thank my band for that as well as all of you, because that is where it has come from.
Sue