Support groups or counseling

[Skyhawks35 0]

For those of you who have had surgery are you going to support groups or to counseling? Especially if you are an emotional eater, such as most of us are, are these groups helping?

[esskay77 785]

I'm going to a support group at the hospital where I had my surgery. I'm still too new at it yet so not sure if it is helping. Our main topic is that we are addicts, which I haven't fully wrapped my head around yet. I'm going to continue to go because there are some nuggets that I have learned so far and I have only gone twice. I haven't committed to saying I'm an addict but I do recognize some of the behavior they talk about! So, I will continue to go. I have heard that attending support groups of some sort is only positive in the long term success. Because of that, I need to do because I want this to be successful for me long term.

[Truckerchic 171]

I'm 11 months out, a food addict, emotional eater prone to binge eating. Surgery does not fix this and now that the newness new surgery is fading those food demons are popping back up. Because of my job I'm not able to do any support groups other than here or Facebook but hoping to change that at the first of the year.

[pik 262]

I am thinking of going. I was never a binge eater and I have not been an emotional eater in years.

The reason I would go would be the support of people who are going through the same thing as me.

[Racewalker48 41]

I go to a support group run by the hospital where I had my surgery and I am in counseling. I am an emotional eater, but I am in counseling specifically for that. I go to support group to be able to share with and support others who have had WLS. I always seem to learn something new in support group, since the bariatric coordinator who runs it has a new topic for discussion every week.