Weight Loss Surgery is NO help to overcoming the mental aspect of obesity!

Without a doubt in my mind, the worst aspect of obesity is MENTAL HUNGER.  WLS did not help us with that at all.  We changed that, as individuals.  And we did great and I am very proud of that!

Yes...this is the battle I will always fight...at least now I have a powerful weapon to help me!

I guess were always gonna be recovering foodaholics.

Well said. I struggle with this more and more. I think I fell back into some old habits over the holidays. There are triggers which I am learning to recognize 

I do agree that mental hunger is the worse. However I will say WLS did help my mental hunger in certain aspects. Pre-op I had this voice in my head that would obsess about food... I had food OCD. If the thought of a cookie popped into my mind it wouldnt shut up until I ate the cookie. If I didnt want the cookie I would try and battle that voice... back and forth eat the cookie, no! eat the cookie, no!... eventually my mouth would start to water, my tummy grumble and I would give in... of course 1 cookie wasnt enough either, it would have to be a few cookies. Post-op I woke up and the voice was gone. For the first 6 months post-op I could faintly hear it now and then but had the tools in order to get it to be quiet.... its been a long time since I heard that voice :-) Now I still deal with the more emotional side of mental hunger... wanting to reach for food when upset/depressed/stressed etc... that is something I have worked hard on both pre and post-op and definately proud of my ability to 99% of the time not use food to 'fix' my problems!

I still have OCD...just not the food kind, LOL! Oh yeah, and ADD... And SAD... And I'm color blind... I SUCK!