What creative outlets have you developed for yourself as a post-op?

One of the tough emotional issues following WLS is the need to handle emotional responses to people, food and situations. What creative outlets have you developed following surgery to handle the changes in your body, mind, spirit that you perhaps used to handle with food. One of my objectives for 2004 is to improve my drawing skills and to teach myself to run without feeling my lungs are going to collapse? I'm finding as I'm building up my running skills (which I NEVER thought I'd be able to do) it's an outlet for stress that I'm finding very welcome. Drawing gives me an emotional outlet that makes me feel like the sky is the limit, although at this point I don't feel I'm that good. What are some of the other things you've done as emotional outlets?

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