I'm elated with my weight loss and positive attitude
If you've read my posts for years, you know that this is a new feeling for me. I've become free of my addictive foods by working the Beck's Diet Solution. And I know that I've sounded like a broken record in mentioning it so often. The author is the Director of Cognitive Therapy and Research at the Univ of Penna. Her father invented Cognitive Therapy to treat depression. Cognitive Therapy is also known as Talk therapy and has basically supplanted Freudian psychology. Cognitvive Therapy has been used to treat other conditions besides depression ( note that many people still need to take meds in addition to Talk Therapy). This book uses Cognitive therapy to enhance following diets. The author also uses many other positive techniques in this 6 week course (6 weeks X 7 days per week=42 days of the course). Some people can complete the course in less than 42 calendar days and others will take longer.
I've been able to extrapolate the techniques used to end my food addiction into a solution for other problems in my life. One of the earlier exercises in the book is to write down advantages of losing weight. I went out on a limb and listed character traits that I thought were impossible to achieve but that I wanted along with weight loss. EVERYONE of them has come true. I went from feeling OK to feeling good-- as a matter of fact I actually feel happy most of the time. I was just getting by, living like I might die any day and not caring about that. Now I've gone from being a pessimist with a cloud hanging over my head to being a full blown optimist. I'm slowly being able to start to exercise. I accept what pain I have --mostly in my joints-- and live with it. I'm hopeful that the pain will lessen and that I'll be able to exercise more as I lose more weight.
Since I feel so much better, I look on our forum, the Main Forum, and the Hunger and Food related Forum for people who are either struggling with food addictions or who are backsliding after WLS. That Main Forum turns over so fast that I may post there a few times a day. And, if I post more than once in a day, I'll just give a brief explanation and refer people to link to my Latest Posts. I'm now feeling the success that I'm meant to feel as someone who is successful following WLS. Yeah, I lost a lot of weight due to my original RNY and some due to my RNY revision (due to a staple line disruption). But, I often didn't feel qualified on many discussions since I was cheating so much. I held myself out as a negative example, i.e., of how not to work the program. Now I can be a positive model and help people who are experiencing the same problems I struggled with for about 40 years of my life. My how my life has changed since I got the book on 01-09-09 and became free from my addictive foods on 01-29-09!!!
I've been able to extrapolate the techniques used to end my food addiction into a solution for other problems in my life. One of the earlier exercises in the book is to write down advantages of losing weight. I went out on a limb and listed character traits that I thought were impossible to achieve but that I wanted along with weight loss. EVERYONE of them has come true. I went from feeling OK to feeling good-- as a matter of fact I actually feel happy most of the time. I was just getting by, living like I might die any day and not caring about that. Now I've gone from being a pessimist with a cloud hanging over my head to being a full blown optimist. I'm slowly being able to start to exercise. I accept what pain I have --mostly in my joints-- and live with it. I'm hopeful that the pain will lessen and that I'll be able to exercise more as I lose more weight.
Since I feel so much better, I look on our forum, the Main Forum, and the Hunger and Food related Forum for people who are either struggling with food addictions or who are backsliding after WLS. That Main Forum turns over so fast that I may post there a few times a day. And, if I post more than once in a day, I'll just give a brief explanation and refer people to link to my Latest Posts. I'm now feeling the success that I'm meant to feel as someone who is successful following WLS. Yeah, I lost a lot of weight due to my original RNY and some due to my RNY revision (due to a staple line disruption). But, I often didn't feel qualified on many discussions since I was cheating so much. I held myself out as a negative example, i.e., of how not to work the program. Now I can be a positive model and help people who are experiencing the same problems I struggled with for about 40 years of my life. My how my life has changed since I got the book on 01-09-09 and became free from my addictive foods on 01-29-09!!!
Good for you Bob!
I also struggle with some issues similar to what you have. I have read your posts with interest, because I am trying to beat the "mind over matter" issues i have with sugars and carbs. I am really glad to hear you are happy and not just OK. That is one of the huge benefits of living! And in my opinion, is why we are trying to improve our health, and in turn our lives.
I also struggle with some issues similar to what you have. I have read your posts with interest, because I am trying to beat the "mind over matter" issues i have with sugars and carbs. I am really glad to hear you are happy and not just OK. That is one of the huge benefits of living! And in my opinion, is why we are trying to improve our health, and in turn our lives.
Congratulations Bob. Sometimes we all sound like broken records (what are records?), but we are all really going through a lot of the same stuff and the more we share the more we have the opportunity to help others and ourselves.
I have been the same healthy weight for 4 years now, but I am deathly afraid of being fat again. I know that I have been successful and the chances are slim that I will relaps, but I am scared of it every day. I realized that this week and it has been bothering me.
So keep up the posting, we all need to know that we are not alone. For those of you that are lurkers and don't share much - when you finally feel like sharing, please do and remember it helps you as much as it helps others.
I have been the same healthy weight for 4 years now, but I am deathly afraid of being fat again. I know that I have been successful and the chances are slim that I will relaps, but I am scared of it every day. I realized that this week and it has been bothering me.
So keep up the posting, we all need to know that we are not alone. For those of you that are lurkers and don't share much - when you finally feel like sharing, please do and remember it helps you as much as it helps others.
Robert
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