Hidden triggers

[Gucci73 15]

I’m learning to identify hidden triggers pre-op… one of which is my damn phone! How many fast food pizza and restaurant/delivery apps do I have?! 27. This also applies to my email. I just got an email from Taco Bell at 7 am for something and it got me to thinking how hungry I am ( actual stomach hunger) and pondered stopping in my way to work ( something I never do!) so there it is.

[Edge13 64]

I deleted all of those apps from my phone after surgery. Every single one. Now, almost a year out, I've got one of them back, because it's for coffee. Good observation. I tell people about this all the time.

[kcuster83 1,504]

I only ever had one food delivery APP on my phone. Still have it but haven't used it since before surgery.

[ShoppGirl 4,785]

It was commercials that got me most post surgery. I didn’t have a lot of food apps though. Post op I would watch Netflix which helped a little bit of course they still eat on the shows so you can’t really totally avoid seeing tempting food.

[mheyer1641 43]

I guess I am one of the weird ones. I love all the cooking game shows liked Chopped and anything with Guy Fieri (Pre and Post Op). It doesn't trigger me, I get some kind of perverse pleasure in watching other people enjoy the food LOL

[kcuster83 1,504]

22 minutes ago, mheyer1641 said:

I guess I am one of the weird ones. I love all the cooking game shows liked Chopped and anything with Guy Fieri (Pre and Post Op). It doesn't trigger me, I get some kind of perverse pleasure in watching other people enjoy the food LOL

It doesn't trigger me either. Gives me ideas.

I like watching cooking shows and competitions. Right now I am binging The great food truck race. haha

[jenuinelygenuinely 81]

My fiancé and I live in a small town and there are no deliveries here except Dominos pizza. The only fast food chain restaurant in town is Subway LOL. The other ones are 15 minutes away. At first we lived off gas station food whenever we needed a quick fix.

[Arabesque 7,240]

Those apps are the devils work. Delete the apps, unsubscribe from the emails, remove the phone numbers from your contact lists & toss the letterbox drops. Can’t stop all the bombardment but at least you can reduce it & remove some of the easy access to it all.

I found ads on tv & social media the worst it because they made me feel ill to look at any sort of high fat, high sugar, fast food, etc. food. Still does. God bless steaming, recording & downloading programs so you can avoid ads. Funnily I can happily watch cooking & baking programs probably because they rarely Celebrate excess.

The other thing I do is to make sure I have a selection of left over meals in my freezer. So on a night I may have been tempted to get takeaway or home delivery, I choose something out of my freezer. I can have a nutritious meal in 5 or so minutes. (Love my microwave.) No delivery service can beat that.

Edited August 4, 2022 by Arabesque

[Gucci73 15]

Delete the apps, unsubscribe from the emails, remove the phone numbers from your contact lists & toss the letterbox drops. Can’t stop all the bombardment but at least you can reduce it & remove some of the easy access to it all.

This is my plan… definitely deleting everything!

[KimA-GA 540]

On 8/3/2022 at 10:05 AM, Gucci73 said:

I’m learning to identify hidden triggers pre-op… one of which is my damn phone! How many fast food pizza and restaurant/delivery apps do I have?! 27. This also applies to my email. I just got an email from Taco Bell at 7 am for something and it got me to thinking how hungry I am ( actual stomach hunger) and pondered stopping in my way to work ( something I never do!) so there it is.

Great to be aware of triggers that can lead to unhealthy eating!! I think a lot of the battle is overcoming those issues.

great awareness!!