what i'am finding

I've been following postings for several months and I am amazed at the basic Q/A that goes on.
Questions about foods, amounts, beverages, exercising etc.  This stuff should have been DRILLED into yoiur head months b4 u hit the table.  If u are intent on testing the plan, seeing if Mcdonalds,  Pizza hut, Olive Garden, or BBQ shack can be squeezed into a food choice or if walking to the car or taking the steps rather than an elevator is counted as exercising then I believe your head is not ready for WLS. Hell, its just one time and I threw most of it away and I can get a treadmill tomorrow Bull **** you stopped, you did'nt.  You fell back to old habits one inch and 3 lbs at a time.  Just shoot yourself now because in 5 - 7 yrs you'll be back at fat city and looking for a gun
LIFESTYLE CHANGE - think why all your diets worked and why you failed them.
A question was posed to the guy on the biggest loser, the 900+lb guy why he did
nt have WLS.  He said they dont have WLS for the head.

Being on liquids over 5 weeks,  last night I was curious about the whole your taste buds change thing so I decided to do a little myth busting.  One of the bars I hang in I went behind the bar and poured myself a few squirts of Guinness my favorite all time beer..  Just enough to taste with no intent of drinking..

Soon as it hit my tongue was the most bitter thing I have ever had. I don't ever remember it being like that, not even when i first tried it..  Spit it out. I don't ever see myself having that beer again.. lol

we need to help this poor boy.  No taste for BEER!!!!!!!! Therapy is on the way.  Mens forum tell him what   he needs.
I'd say at the 6 mo mark sit him at a table and start with shot glasses filled with stout down to lite.  B4 he passes out find the last one and buy him a case
This cannot go unsettled

I can only speak from personal experience.  I had to go into the hospital 1 week before my first RNY and had to stay there 3 weeks following the RNY.  MY wife couldn't drive me home--I was sent home about 60 miles by ambulance.  And, once I got home I was basically bedridden for several months.  Once I was able to get out of bed, I was still confined to my home.  I think I didn't leave my house -other than to go to a doctor's office for around 6 months. 

I agree that the WLS procedure is strictly a procedure on our guts, but I initially lost 240 lbs even though I was cheating.  That wasn't the brightest thing to do but I am a sugar and white carb addict and a junk food junkie.  I didn't go into remission until 01-29-09.  If I did not have WLS despite the way I poorly worked it, I would have been dead back in 2001.  Ny primary, surgeon, and psychiatrist all assured me of that.

I found out this year about how to work on the brain.  A behavioral therapist who is also a food addict in remission suggested that I get a copy of the Beck's Diet Solution which teaches us techniqes (including using cognitive therapy) on how to follow a diet).  She uses this book with food addicts in both individual and group therapy sessions. This may not be hard for someone who is not a food addict or for someone who does give into temptation.  I got the book on 01-09--09 and have been free from my addictive foods and following a strict diet since 01-29-09.  This book showed me what I could not figure out on my own.  Over the years, I had been to Weigh****cher, OA, Children Of Adult Alcoholics, Docotrs, psychiatrists, addiction counselors, psychologists, and MSWs.  I guess if the book had been out back then I could have been helped.  As it is, this 6 week course has transformed by life.  I can now choose not to eat addictive foods.  I can eat in regular restaurants and make healthy choices.  I know when I go to a restaurant that at least half of my meal will be in a box going home with me.

Don't shoot yourself now because there is hope and the possibility of working all of your food problems out.  Yeah, I knew what I should eat but that didn't make a difference until I learned the exercises that would free me from my compulsions and addictions.  I do suggest that pre-ops get the hard cover version of the book and that post-ops get the work book.  The difference is in the details.  I think the post-ops know what they should be doing but they may not know how to do it.  If you are facing death or WLS, your choice should be obvious.  I started out at 571 lbs and I now weigh 356.  I knew when I had my WLS that my final weight after my "window of opportunity"  would bring me down to a weight where most of you are starting your weight loss journeys.  This journey has added 8 1/2 years to my life so far.  I am continuing to lose weight because I can't eat much at my meals and because I no longer graze.  I feel tremendow freedom due to the latter fact and I am now losing about 2 lbs a week.  Bob

Hey Bob I am gald to hear your liking this Beck's Diet Solution. You sound better if that's even possible through typing....lol Gonna check it out and see what it is all about.

Derrick

Really!  We are telling people who struggle to go shoot themselves now.  I have been a member of this board since it started and this is the least supportive thing I have ever read.  Congrats on having it all figured out!

Its  simple to figure out.  NO EXPERIENCE NO EDUCATION NECESSARY for these results.  One exception my Doc said.  fat faries come in the middle of the night and attach themselves to the body nothing you can do, victimized again.   My Doc, nut and I will supply the ammo

I'm almost 18 months out and have just regained a taste for beer in the last couple of months. In the first 12 months after surgery I drank about 3 maybe 4 beers total. I drank 3-4 a couple of Saturday nights ago. Felt good. Alcohol's never been something I had to watch out for though. Coca-Cola was my drug of choice.