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Damn justrite, that's really deep. But you're right. All these changes with our mind, self esteem, men, bodies, egos all that sh*t is going to surface. I'm glad you are bringing this up because I'm struggling with not having the distraction of my food addiction. I am now feeling alot of things that I buried with food. I do have to say that I'm grateful for people like you who are honest about the realities of these changes. I'm also grateful to God, of course, and my theapist. I pray that I can overcome some of my demons as well. God Bless, Rebecca

Wow. Thanks for being so candid and sharing the other side. I'm glad you decided to seek out treatment. I've been seeing a therapist for about three years now. I've been extremely overweight, when I started therapy, then I lost weight (pretty much by starving and or bingeing and purging) and then I regained the weight. I felt so ashamed that I stopped go to therapy for about 6 months as I started to regain all of my weight and then some. I started with a new therapist last July (2009) and go about every 3 weeks. It makes a HUGE difference! I was banded in May of 2010 and so I'm new to being banded but not new to losing weight. I want my band to help me reach goal and live a healthy life and so far it has been a great asset. I thank God for that! I'm working on all of my self esteem issues as well. I just said the other day that I better start digging all the issues out and deal with them now rather than later. I especially have issues with men (terrible father) so I'm putting myself out there to allow myself to feel different, well, feelings. Good Luck with your healing my dear. God Bless, Rebecca