SeaLegs

I'm sorry you're feeling dpressed, I know how it is. Could the sleeve (less stomach) be interfering with the absorption of your meds?

Wow! You are amazing! I hope the day will come for me, too, when I can weigh less than 200, bicycle and walk the dogs like you, and feel confident enough to go to a reunion. Maybe your body is saying, stop and look at me, I rock!

Cleaning instead of emotional eating! That's what I hope will happen to me! I have been following FLYLADY and improving all the time. Seriously, though, I totally agree with livelyterry. Life is too short. You don't want your kids fearful, or only remembering the arguing when they look back on their childhoods. My question is: is this a transition reaction to your surgery and a more positive self-image, or ongoing? Maybe counseling will help, either to heal or come to terms with not living together any more.

I'm having my sleeve in 3 weeks and it really helps to know about "eating" post-op. Today I am making some bone broth (good for healing) to go in the freezer. I am lucky to live alone and not have to deal with the food needs of family members, just the animals.

Do you feel comfortable moving around and doing things at this point?

Roo, would suspect that you are fighting the Carb Monster, and when you ate some cake, a cascade of carb cravings started with an insulin spike. I think some of us are more sensitive to it than others, and It is physiologic. It's not a weak mind, but very powerful body chemistry. It happened to me last night...I ate two gummy Flinstone vitamins (My surgeon recommended Flinstones, the gummy was my idea) and it was downhill from there! And I had been so good. I think the answer is protein, protein, protein, but last night a bowl of oatmeal (filling, low glycemic index) helped me to stop. I believe the surgery and the weight loss are very proactive ways to work with this. For now, we have learned from our experiences, haven't we? Hang in there!!!!!!

What a crazy, wonderful idea!

Thanks for the info, I've been researching too, and this puts it quite succinctly!