Long post but I need Help..need serious responses

oh good god, honey you're not alone . . . but like one of the other posters said, you eat crap you feel like crap. I'm a chocoholic from way back, and I don't dump. BUT, I limit myself to an occassional piece of GOOD chocolate. Not drug store stuff, but the good stuff. I try to keep healthy snacks on my desk, almonds, microwave popcorn for when I just gotta have it. And its the feeling "icky" that does help keep me honest. I don't enjoy feeling like that so it reminds me to behave. I know, not easy. Good luck! Remember, thin (& feeling good) feels a heck of a lot better than that cookie tastes!

I was just like all of you describe before I read a book that changed my life. I never thought a book could make that much of a difference. The book is titled: "Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy: The 5-Step Plan to Overcome Emotional Eating and Lose Weight on Any Diet" by LINDA SPANGLE, RN, MA. (A soft cover copy is less than $10 on Amazon.com or Walmart.com.) The book is based on the successful weight management program Spangle developed at her Denver clinic, WINNERS for Life, Inc., which specializes in the psychological reasons behind why we eat. Spangle's program has helped hundreds of clients lose weight and keep it off, and serves as a referral source for more than 350 physicians. Spangle shares her fool-proof method for beating emotional eating -- the method that accounts for her clients' 90% success rate! Spangle reveals how you can cope with your feelings of frustration, boredom, or loneliness, and offers her proven step-by-step program to stop your emotions from interfering with your eating habits. These 5 simple steps teach you how to identify the emotional void the food is attempting to fulfill and empower you to break your self-destructive behavior. According to Spangle, your weight-loss success rate increases dramatically only when your emotional coping skills become stronger and incorporated into your daily life. So before you devour more M&M's, cookies or chips, learn Spangle's 5 mental exercises and free yourself from the emotional cravings that sabotage your weight-loss efforts. The book is chock-full of workbook style exercises, tips, tricks, and techniques to modify habits, identify eating triggers, change attitudes, and build lasting success. This is an approach like no other. Rather than advocating a specific diet or exercise regimen, Spangle shows how to recognize and identify emotional needs before you use food to fix them. Once you learn to eat only when you are physically hungry, and come to separate food and eating from how you cope with life, Spangle says you will not have problems shedding pounds and keeping them off. Please give it a try. It has really worked for me. I look at everything differently now. Tom

I just ordered it! Thanks for the info!!! Angie

I ordered it (Life is Hard, Food is Easy) and am digging thru. Finding hard to find the time to read it but so far, it's given me pause for why I eat what I eat. After reading about head hunger (not what we have initially post op), the urge to eat something crunchy or chewing when we really want to chew on someone, I decided it was better for me to take 4 trisuit to work and eat them when I get stressed than starting to vending machine surf. So far it's working. I agree with the other posters. If I eat junk, I feel awful about myself and physically icky. Eliminate the junk and find healthy replacements. It's not always easy but if you get rid of the carbs, after a few days you won't crave them as much.