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LOL. Great stories. When I first went to OA 15 years ago it wasn't like that but I saw the food nazis taking over and when I went back last year those were the only ones who spoke. No thanks. My church has a program that has so many rules that after one meeting I had an incredible headache--to which I am not prone and I was so angry. Inaddition to all the meal plans they'd added memorizing scripture and sending each other postcards and all I could think was-more guilt-I'll never be able to do this.

I'm not sure what you're asking. Its on blogger.com and I started it as soon as I found out I'd been approved for surgery and had to stop eating and go on a liquid diet immediately.

Thanks Jacquii. It's good to know that I won't have to keep fighting the temptation to do that. But I still want to keep making healthier choices than I used to and that means dealing with the cravings. Does that go away?

Just wanted to clarify. I feel shamed at OA meetings, not because people shame me but because so many promote very rigid systems of controlling the food, which does not seems like freedom from food addiction to me. I am ADHD and totally incapable of being anal about anything, much less food plans and weighing and measuring and panning for carbs like a miner panning for gold. In fact, everytime I try to not be ADHD and to fit what seems to me to be a very anal approach to life, I feel shamed for being made the way I'm made and shamed for not being able to work the program the way some people do. And that makes me just want to eat. I've started a blog to help me deal with the addiction aspect of this disease as well as all the ramifications of life in the lap band lane. It's helping me and it may help you. IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

I'm afraid to go back to OA for the same reason. I started a blog to help me deal and I'm looking for support on this site. I am not interested in food nazi's either, since I am triggered by Protein as much as I am by carbs, but I want to deal with all those things that come up that drive me into the food. IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

Hi, I'm Cheri. I'm interested in what people are doing to deal with the food addiction now that they've gotten a jump start through the band. I'm working very hard not to stretch this new tiny tummy and I'm amazed at the temptation to add liquid during my eating time so I can eat more or to just keep right on eating tiny bits, however slowly, beyond the prescribed half an hour. IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF I've started a blog to help me deal with it. Maybe it'll help you, too. IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF Band Date: 6/18/2009. :tongue2: