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Newbie in need of guidance!!!
Hi Everyone
I just joined this group and I am in process of getting approved for surgery...I have a long hard road ahead of me and would so appreciate tips, tricks, mind-melds, and what-have-yous to help me in any way make it through this with my sanity in tact !!!! I am very nervous about the process...not so much the surgery (band), but what the heck do I do with myself if I can't turn to FOOD?!?!?!?! All you lovely people out there I'm sure have great things to offer....BRING IT ON!!!
Donna
I just joined this group and I am in process of getting approved for surgery...I have a long hard road ahead of me and would so appreciate tips, tricks, mind-melds, and what-have-yous to help me in any way make it through this with my sanity in tact !!!! I am very nervous about the process...not so much the surgery (band), but what the heck do I do with myself if I can't turn to FOOD?!?!?!?! All you lovely people out there I'm sure have great things to offer....BRING IT ON!!!
Donna
Hi Donna,
Welcome to my OH Group. I'm glad you're a member and your post.
Before I had surgery, I couldn't imagine coping without the self-medicating, numbing components of food and emotional overeating. For me, as I lost weight and my eating became more in control, it naturally got better. I felt so good about myself, my progress and success that it took the place of eating.
I think long term the key is to develop non-food ways of dealing with stress, emotions and situations that have caused you to turn to food in the past. I've learned to recognize when I'm triggered in advance and turn to distractions to keep my mind and hands busy so I become involved in something else. I've actually created a list of things I can do rather than eat. I won't say that it is 100% but it works more times than not.
Congratulations on your upcoming surgery. Thanks for joining my group.
Cathy
Welcome to my OH Group. I'm glad you're a member and your post.
Before I had surgery, I couldn't imagine coping without the self-medicating, numbing components of food and emotional overeating. For me, as I lost weight and my eating became more in control, it naturally got better. I felt so good about myself, my progress and success that it took the place of eating.
I think long term the key is to develop non-food ways of dealing with stress, emotions and situations that have caused you to turn to food in the past. I've learned to recognize when I'm triggered in advance and turn to distractions to keep my mind and hands busy so I become involved in something else. I've actually created a list of things I can do rather than eat. I won't say that it is 100% but it works more times than not.
Congratulations on your upcoming surgery. Thanks for joining my group.
Cathy
Cathy
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I like the idea of creating a list of alternative things to do besides food!!!! Sometimes I have done that in the past in my mind...never wrote anything down. But I have been such a nonparticipant for so long that I come up empty handed...how awful is that?!? I would like to hear some of your alternatives.
DJ
DJ
