EATING TOO MUCH AT FOUR MONTHS OUT!

A lot of sound advce. I am 5 days out from my lap rny. Let me remind you of the pain and discomfort you had the balls to take on to change your life. You make that decision today and everyday. You have screwed up a few days but thankfully you have many more ahead.  Some tips I have been given. Eliminate temptation. Stock the kitchen well. Include some of the alternatives your brothers have mentioned. I will. Walk often. Keeps you excercising and out of the kitchen.  Stick to a routine. When meals are done move on to other activities. Hobbies, interests, pastimes, you name it. Find one that consumes you and go for it. Reading, videos, message boards, gardening, cars, sports, volunteer work, girl watching, research something you b interested  in.  Eliminate triggers. Stress, conflict, 30 million food adds a day, women (need I say more), scents, A food diary is helpful. Be honest. My biggest concern, living in a home with 8 adults and my 18 month old grandson. Bickering, cooking at all hours, completely different diets, The scents of spicy food making me naucious still. This is about you and for you. You come first! You are in my prayers along with all the brothers of the belly. Godspeed.

get a few pictures of yourself PRE -OP at or near your highest weight. Put them on the mirror in the bathroom so you have to look at them EVERYDAY. maybe even put one in the car if you drive alot. Everyday look at it and say NO MORE OF THAT.

When you get the munchies, get a protein bar and.or a bottle of water.  One or the other works for me most of the time and they are on the diet.  I've been tempted to go get something to eat, but what would it be?  Then I realized its not about the food, its about eating out, its about about me and my relationship with food and that is over, gotta change.  Going out now is about who I am with, not what I'm going to eat.  Big change.  It worries me more when i can eat toomuch or am still hungary after I've eaten.  Thats when I have to ask myself if I 've gotten my 64+ oz of water and 60+ gms of protein.  Take care of that first and then,...maybe, I will worry about something else. Now here is a hint I was gven and it works for me.  When you are having a craving for somethin,...ice cream, pop tarts, soda, whatever evil bad  ffod that got us into trouble before.  go ahead and have a taste or two.  It probably isn't as satisfying as we fantasize, and if I eat too much it makes me sick anyweays and it is just not worth being sick and missing whatever else I had planned to do because I feel bad from eating BAD food. Best of luck but feeling helpless,......its not like quitting alcohol or cigarettes,...you have to have food. But you need fuel for your body, not comfort or pleasure.  Feeling helpless is surrendering and surrendering is caving in to the mental cravings,..and that is quitting on yourself,...and eating the wrong stuff and too much is punishing yourself,...and that is an old habit you have to change. Eating for pleasure, eating for loneliness, eating for reward, eating for sadness, eating when angry, eating when bored.  This is your big chance to chnage all of that.  Walk, drink water, eat protein, talk on OH.com, look at before and after pictures and read people's profiles.  That can be you too. You can do it.  I know you can.  Make the choice.  Grit your teeth and do it.