Wonderwmn12

I just went for my first fill last week with my surgeon, Dr. Paresh Shah. The whole thing was very easy - I was in and out in 30 mins. He sets aside time in the afternoons for fills. I can't praise him highly enough!

I'm nearly four weeks post-surgery and I've been taking Tenuate whenever I feel strong hunger pangs come on. I figure it keeps me from bingeing or grazing on things that are not healthy. Prior to getting a fill, I need support to keep me from overeating. I haven't told my endocrinologist who gave me the prescription that I'm taking it but my therapist (who helps me focus on my eating disorder) knows and she thinks I should acknowledge the hunger and, after making sure it's real hunger and not an emotional response, eat something. However, she also wants me to be strict and keep my calories down. So, the Tenuate is really just a useful stop-gap for now.

I was not diagnosing anyone, I was responding to the original poster who was concerned about her "bad habit", the fact that she "can't stop" and she wanted to know the repercussions. She is traveling down a bad road and the response from the other posters was nothing but encouragement of this behavior, saying it was "actually a pretty 'good' habit in a lot of ways" and something that everyone does. My perspective is as someone who thought the same thing but it has turned into something I cannot control. I think it's safe to assume that we all had a destructive relationship with food pre-surgery, so why encourage a behavior that involves looking to food to handle stress? It's a recipe for disaster. WasaBubble Butt, it's great that you can do this selectively or sparingly, but I get the sense that November Lily is not like that and she is looking for help. I would encourage her to speak with a therapist who can talk with her about her chewing and spitting and perhaps they can come up with a healthy way to deal with her feelings.

<p>Chewing and spitting large quantities of food is an eating disorder (EDNOS) according to the DSM. As someone who has been struggling with this for nearly 2 years, I'm rather surprised to see the flippant replies. One of the major risks of this behavior is ulcers. When I first started, I thought it was something I could do occasionally as needed. Like any other eating disorder, however, it spirals out of control. My advice is to stop now while you can.</p> One more thing, digestion starts the minute you put food in your mouth. You cannot spit out every bit of food, so when you start to gain weight and can't think of a reason why, remember it's because you were cheating.