Struggling

[melanndoll 92]

Surgery is scheduled for Tuesday. Just finished day 10 of my liquid diet. Today is the first day I find myself truly struggling. I feel like part of it is because I didn't get my approval letter until today. So I may not have recognized that this is really happening. I have stuck perfectly to my liquid diet but today I want to eat. Anything really. Just binge eat like I always would to make me feel better. I won't do it. I just hate the thought of never being able to do it again. I realize it is how I got here in the first place and it is probably normal to be feeling this way, but I can't make it go away.

[michpell39 399]

It gets better , addiction to food takes awhile to get over but you will when your band works for you , I really don't think about eating that much anymore every 4-6 hours I think geeze I should eat something but in between I really don't think about food, I had 1 slice of pizza today and thought meh I should have had chicken that would have been so much tastier. Its hard in the beginning but your love affair with food will fade .Best of luck

[DELETE THIS ACCOUNT! 12,703]

It is very normal to feel how you are. A lot of us go through a "food mourning" because we realize we have to give up the old habits that led us to get obese. food is often our comfort, or our source of happiness, or even way to stuff our feelings away. We realize that in order to be successful with the band we have to give those behaviors up- and we get sad and even angry because of it.

I can only speak for myself, but I can't tell you how happy I am since giving up those unhealthy behaviors and losing weight with my band. I will take my life now over my life of binging and emotional eating a million times over.

Hang in there, you can do this, just be patient with yourself while you adjust to these changes.

[Debbie3sons 1,936]

There is a thing on here I forgot who wrote it but it is about last meal syndrome.

You may look it up to see it is kind of funny but true as most of us go through what you are feeling , remember this feeling cause it almost happened when I could finally eat solids , but then I just kept in my head why I did this.

[Bama53 214]

You're doing great! You've gotten thru 10 days of liquids and have only 3 to go. I think that is pretty awesome! Hang in there. As someone once told me "This too shall pass".

[melanndoll 92]

Thank you guys! I knew you guys would understand. I'm so glad to know I will have all if you through my journey.