fear and the food addiction

[bethechange 0]

How did everyone cope with loosing the favorite pastime of eating? This past week I feel like I've relapsed and have been snacking, thinking about my old friend food, and sometimes I feel like I am backsliding on the progress I've made. I started at 220 (ish), sleeved on 12/12/12 (196) and now weight around 155. I was making great progress but it's stalled. I have started to workout religiously but I like the food has me trapped. I know it all sounds crazy. I don't even know why I am wanting to eat all the time. I feel like I am at risk for failing.

[pantala 125]

Bethechange, if you figure out or learn the answer to this you can retire on the millions you will make!

Don't hate me, but eating has just never been a pastime for me, it's a necessary evil. I'm fat because I am truly starving all the time (and my feet are messed up so I have mobility issues). I have joked that I wish someone would invent people kibbles so I wouldn't have to bother thinking about it.

That being said, I know so many people with weight problems that would have to get over their dependent relationship with food and eating to even think about losing weight. I don't even recommend the sleeve for these folks and I doubt they would want it.

I don't have any good advice but I hope others will jump in.

[Yoli3925 67]

I haven't had surgery yet, but I'm in therapy working on my food addiction. My therapist recommended the book "The Emotional Eater's Repair Manual" by Julie A. Simon. This book has a lot of good information in it and I now have a better understanding of why I overeat. I hope this helps.

[Eat That Frog 53]

I think this is a very common problem, For me, I spent the first 2 months hating to eat, and have spent the last 4 months fighting the same old fight I have dealt with for years. My husband doesn't understand that we still can't have any junk food in the house because I will eat it. I might only eat 3 Cookies where before surgery I would have eaten 12, but I still want them. And as with Pantela, I deal with hunger daily. It isn't acid reflux or thirst, it is hunger. I just take it one day at a time. Hang in there and good luck!

[No game 14,437]

This is a hard journey mentally, I have been able to eat my whole life past the point of full . Eat wait awhile till it doesn't hurt eat some more. this surgery doesn't really fix that does it? I know the struggle. I read a book and still read it, its called " Anatomy of a food addiction" and wow did it hit home!! There is some technical stuff in there that boggled my mine a bit but that book made me look at my problem differently and instead of hating myself I found a way to care about me and understand why I was doing what I was doing.. It is still a struggle sometimes to comfort myself in healthy ways but the one thing the sleeve gives us is time to work on it.

Laura