a WOW moment today- not in a good way
I have a customer hwo had WLS about 1.5 years ago. He had some serious complications but in the end he was very happy he did it. I don't see most of customer regularly but stop by when I am in the are just to say HI. I called this guy and ask if I could stop by to talk about his WLS as I am in the process. I was there for a couple of hours(2) while we chatted he was also working, he owns the place and is very hands on. He has lost 100+ Lbs but could still lose another 50 or so, I never understood why he didn't lose it all, until today. While I was there, he had a pastrami sandwhich, 3 20oz diet cokes and a bag of M&Ms. Clearly hes headed back to where he was before WLS. How common is this? it kinda freaks me out, that people would go through the process just to go back to the old way of doing things. Obviously Carnie Wilson has had the same issue, but do they have any hard data on how successful or how may "relapse" after WLS
Well said CB. Unfortunately, this type of behavior is common place to many of us at some point in our journey. I am battling my demons (food) again. Testing the waters so to speak & finding out more than I need to know, i.e., I can eat a lot of stuff that got me in trouble in the 1st place. I have not regained any weight, but it's scary to see that it could be so easy. CB is correct when he says that we're addicted, and that is not an easy thing to for anyone to accept--that we are power less over food (or, booze, drugs, whatever...). I hope that your customer will get himself back on the path to a healthy eating pattern soon enough. BTW, I hope you gave him a good price for the phones. Jay