Somebody help me...

I am still waiting on my insurance to give me approval and get my date scheduled. I have completed my six month diet and have been trying to continue with the weigh****chers until I start my three week liquid diet.

I have been so stressed at work the past couple weeks. I am seriously thinking of changing jobs by the fall of the year. Yesterday and today I have been so upset my eyes have been twitching. It wasn't long till I realized I had my hands in a bag of rolo's....

I stopped and thought to myself what the hell am I doing?
Without even a second thought to make me feel better I grab the food.


I am so tired of this...how do you get out of your ways you have grown accustomed to for years?

I surely don't want to be doing this after surgery!!

Help!!

Dear Help,
Cool hon I sound like Dear Abby!
Hope that at least made you smile!
But look right now your working on pure will power.   You should be proud of yourself for recognizing the problem would you have 7 months ago? You started to slip and you caught your self before the end of the bag so good for you!
Now there is noway to know if you will succeed or not, but remember after WLS you will have a very good tool a honeymoon if you will.
So during this time you won't need  as much willpower.
This is the time you'll be loosing weight like you never have before and you will have instant gratification. You will feel so good about yourself it will carry you for awhile.
This is the time you need to dedicate yourself to change your ways, while it is easier. 
You need to follow your WLS teams program plan to the T. JOURNAL EVERYTHING what you eat, the protein in it the time of day and your fluid and vitamin intake.
You need to stay active in some king of support group weather in person or here on the computer.
Change will come your body and mind will work together and you should be OK.
Hope this helps.
C'ya Bob (or you can call me Dear Abby)!

Dear Abby,

Hehe. I definetly am going to hit the support group next meeting. My family is just like I would eat everything I wanted if I was having surgery soon. Thanks! Alot of help....NOT.
Thanks for your encouraging words. I know this is something I have to take seriously and follow my rules.

I have to come up with better ways to deal with stress!!

Have a good night!

Mrs. Winslow---pre-approval for me was tough.  I wavered, no, swung like a giant out-of- control eating pendulum, during that time.  Bob was an inspiration for me during that time, along with many others from this forum!   Weigh****chers is a great idea for pre-approval and pre-op.  Just don't give up if your  not perfect during this time.  The main thing I worked on was not drinking while I ate--harder said than done, but VERY important post-op.  I'm sorry your job is so stressful, but you are going to feel SO MUCH better post-op, you may not want to quit then.--I really have no idea about your job, but I know I can handle things better now.  And the honeymoon phase is wonderful!  That has helped me immensely in being able to slow down and think about food now, before I just shove it into my mouth!  This is the time when I am rewiring my brain to form new eating habits.  Just keep reading everyone's posts and hang in there!  Erika

Hi'ya... 

Please don't feel bad, it happens to everyone!   The first thing is you have gotten some great advise from Bob and Ericka, all I wanted to add was we are here for you too!

OK, so I do have another thing (I can never just shut up after one) but

I work with a great deal of children who are adoptive and have behavior problems.   Their new parents are just frustrated and scared when the behaviors rear their ugly head...  so my advise to them, it is a daily process in changing habits and patterns the kids lived with for years.  It will not happen over night, patience, understanding and consistency is the key to making lifelong changes. 

So please be patient with yourself, many of us are stress eaters, which is how we got in this shape!

What I did...  and many will not like this...  BUT...  the lesser of two evils, is I grabbed some of the sugar free chocolate and would put it in the freezer of my mini-frig at work, and when stressed, I would grab one, it was frozen so no bitting,...  it turned out to be like a chocolate freezer pop, and it would satisfy my "need."   On a positive note...  at 6 months, I don't do it anymore...  I've replaced it crafts or reading at home, and at work, if my assistant is in the room, I go and do a couple of laps around the school.

It will get better... as in the words of our wonderful Scott...  Breathe

HUGS
Amy

Thanks guys for your encouraging words. It really does help to talk to people who understand and are not judgmental!!

I think I am feeling a little better at my job yesterday was a good day and I am going in tomorrow to work some to get some things done. I was stressed with alot of work but I put some good tunes on and it seemed to go smoothly.

I do think once I start shedding this weight the energy I will have will make a big difference.

Thanks to you all for making me feel at home here!!

Have a good weekend!