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Concern about "when can I eat..." posts

Lady Lithia
on 7/23/12 3:28 am
I remember one post where a person wanted to eat something, and they had a lot of good response, but then someone blatantly suggested that the person not follow their surgeon's plan because it didn't result in a problem with them.

I really HATE it when someone encourages another person to break their surgeon's plan, because they broke it without the world coming to an end.

there seems to be some sort of alliance of plan-breakers, and those who break their plan want others to do it too. It's a sickness and it infuriates me.

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost! 
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!
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devalissh
on 7/22/12 11:42 pm - TX
I love it.  I know I am still pre op but I think the thing I am most look forward to the most is developing a healthy relationship with food.  Hope I can be as suscessful as you.
BWB
on 7/22/12 11:48 pm
You've heard this before...Eat to live, NOT live to eat!
               
Cleopatra_Nik
on 7/22/12 11:51 pm - Baltimore, MD
Yep, 100% agree!

Refraining from some foods (esp. white carbs) will actually detox your body of them (faster than a damn pouch test) and by the time you can have them again you may find you don't WANT them anymore. And isn't that what you hoped for?

I think in some instances it is overwhelming temptation but for some it is the expectation that the surgery will "do the work" for them...take away those cravings.

The surgery gives you an OPPORTUNITY. What you do with it is up to you.

RNY Gastric Bypass 1-8-08 350/327/200 (HW/SW/CW). I spend most of my time playing with my food over at Bariatric Foodie - check me out!

cajungirl
on 7/22/12 11:58 pm
Come here so I can give you a giant hug.  I absolutely concer with you.  I've noticed throughout the years here the majority (not all) of those that have been able to reach goal and maintain their weight loss are those that have embraced the changes they made early out. 

Thanks for posting this Lora, I couldn't have said it as well as you did.

Proximal RNY Lap - 02/21/05

 9 years committed ~  100% EWL and Maintaining

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Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 7/23/12 2:33 am - OH
Just returning your hug! 

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

chatterpam
on 7/23/12 12:03 am - PA
Great post! I am just starting to subscribe to this way of thinking... brain retraining is a work in progress... LOL... a self-admitted food addict, I am starting to see that I can treat myself occasionally without it affecting the scale... and I do some good self-talk about how I don't have to binge now that I've had a little bit of said treat. So far... I am winning! That is HUGE for me... a real milestone.

Thanks for posting - it is further confirmation that I am on the right track and that success IS possible
        
Brittany M.
on 7/23/12 12:09 am
Great post, Lora.  All so true.  As someone who has "been there, done that", I really hope that the newer post-ops can take your advice.  I was ****y and basically ignored common sense, eating whatever I pleased for my first 2 years post-op.  Yes, I still lost the weight but, predictably, by year 3 I was regaining at a pretty rapid rate.  I caught myself when I was almost 35 pounds up, and have gotten back down to a healthy weight.  I have finally changed my relationship with food, but if I had started out doing that in the beginning I would have been so much better off. 
    
Relic_Goddess
on 7/23/12 1:11 am - Macon, GA
RNY on 03/13/12
As someone who is early out, I would like to say that all the vets on this site are a godsend. I know I have fallen victim to posting this type of thread alot on here, but it's mostly because my NUT takes what seems like years to answer me back about anything. 

I understand that everything is objective and results vary by the individual.
For example, today I am making a vegan minestrone soup. I added so many beans that i may be able to power a wind station for a month.
it does have some noodles in it because it's a dry soup mix, but I added in sooooo many beans and veggies that I can pick around the noodles and still have a good meal. Also, aside from maybe "glass noodles" or those mushroom ones, all pasta tastes like raw flour nastyness to me.

I know I mentioned ethnic food alot on here, but that's just because alot of the food that I've had to say no to has a MUCH healthier cousin in another country. (Chimichurri is my new favorite for salad to steak)

As a newbie I would like to apologize if I crap up the board with my questions. :/  BUT I do love you all so...forgive please?
                                
Kim S.
on 7/23/12 1:28 am - Helena, AL
That is why we keep coming here.  To help those that need it.  Many of us wouldn't be where we are today without veterans to help guide us.

You should continue to ask-one day you will be a vet guiding the newbies.  What concerns us is the ****yness in some when they try something way too early out, it doesn't bother them, and it becomes an "in your face" moment for them.

Of course, many of them will be crying in 2 years about regain, how to get "back on track" and asking about the infamous "5 day pouch test"....

I hope our path has made yours a bit easier.
             
     
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