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Is it possible for me to still be having gas pain that travels to my shoulders and neck? My surgery was June 18 so on Thursday I'll be 3 weeks out. I've been thinking I reherniated a disc in my neck or that the torn rotater cuff in my left shoulder is sending referred pain there, but maybe not. The pain comes late afternoon if I've been standing or walking around. I can sit leaning back quite comfortably.

Wish I could get my doctor to do both knees at once!

I would do it in a heartbeat!

I researched a Dr. in my area who I knew would do it. Even mayo clinic recommended him. But I was on a PPO at the time and could pick my own Dr. His name is Dr. Milt Smit and he works out of Kankakee Illinois. You could research him and present the info to your Dr. Recovery is much better for people who do both at once.

1 Day - I generally eat between 1/2 and 1 cup at a meal. I have an occasional late afternoon snack IF I am hungry. Usually I am not, but sometimes dinner will be postponed by lifestuff, and I may have a Protein snack if that happens. I like the South Beach bars that are 10 gms Protein and 140 cal. They don't totally destroy the calorie count for the day and they do have good protein amount. I also take along turkey Jerky if I'm going to be out all afternoon. An oz or so in a baggie will get me through. I don't always snack in the evening, again - if I do it is something Calcium rich or protein. Sometimes I put walnuts in my pudding - calcium AND protein... I like to make every bite count for something good.

I really need to be doing the time at the gym that you are, Linda. DH and I went walking yesterday, but my knee just won't do much of that. The WiiFit really helps me get moving, but I need more... Maybe I should take a page from Phyll and go ahead and schedule the knee surgery. Get past the rehab and it will be so much better. I will ponder that option.

Joanne, I had double knee replacements done at the same time and that's about the only part of my body that doesn't give me trouble. I did a lot of knee strengthening exercise that my Dr. gave me ahead of time. Water walking and swimming also strengthens your knees ahead of time. I left the hospital after two days and when the physical therapist came to evaluate me he said I was like someone finishing therapy.

The problem with Water aerobics is that the instructors don't always know what they're doing. Don't do any excercises above the water. All joints should be underwater to prevent injury. Do everything very slowly and gently. It won't hurt at the time, but if you overdo it, you will strain and inflame your joints. The water also seems to reduce inflammation because of the coolness and the pressure it surrounds your joints with. I actually had physical therapy in an arthritis pool at one point for my back and and shoulder and the water walking was excellent. Just bend your knees enough to keep all your joints underwater. Walk backwards as well as forwords. I also worked my arms gently in various directions, bent elbow, straight elbow, up, down,sideways, forward, backward. Just be very gentle. Listen to your body. Don't overstretch your joints. Destabilizing your joints by overstretching them causes more injury.

If you have rheumatoid arthritis, I can tell you that my sister, who is a physician, got it so badly she couldn't hold her patient charts and write on them. She completely eliminated all red meat (beef and pork)and started eating as much organic food as she could. She is in complete remission and takes no rheumatoid arthritis drugs.

Hi everyone...Hope you all had a greatttt holiday weekend. Mine was very nice.

DIL came in from Georgia on Thursday July 2nd, that night our AC went out. I had the whole family over for dinner. Mom and the 2 grandkids spent the night that night. Hubby woke us up Friday morning at 7am and said you all need to leave, sooooo we all came to Moms house in Ft Worth and went shopping. Hopefully we will get it fixed soon.

I've been eating more than normal, not feeling much restriction and that is so weird to me since I was doing really well after I went back to have some taken out since I got so sick. I go back in a couple of weeks, will see how I do between now and then. Of course, we have been eating out alot since DIL has been here, visiting her favorite restaurants here that she doesn't have in Georgia.

I have a question for all of you. I have noticed alot lately if I eat or drink before bed, I am waking up all night coughing, it feels like something is coming up in my throat. I coughed so much last night that I woke up with a sore throat. Is there a rule to stop drinking or snacking before bedtime?

Have a great week everyone. Back to work tomorrow after being off for 9 days. :tongue_smilie:

That night time cough is almost always reflux. I try to finish all pills at least half an hour before bed and only have a swallow before bed. I've actually started having a swallow of Kiefer because it can help reflux. Then I do the face washing, teeth brushing etc to give it time to settle. Certain blood pressure medications can cause pharygeal reflux, where the acid creeps up onto your vocal cords and causes the coughing, but its more likely you're just eating too much and too late in the evening and your tiny tummy can't take it. My post op instructions actually say if that happens you didn't wait long enough before you laid down.

Most people don't understand this disease. They don't see it as a medical condition that frequently requires a medical solution. Sometimes it seems they'd rather you died and went down fighting the disease on your own than that you get the help that could save your life and help you win the war. They are shame-based people who have to transfer that shame onto others.

I've been writing about just this issue in my blog:

IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

I started it June 9 when I found out I'd been approved and June 18 was my surgery date. There are several posts dealing with guilt.

Steve,

I started a blog in June as soon as I found out I'd been approved and was given a surgery date of June 18, 2009. It speaks to my journey as a Christian with food addiction who has chosen bariatric surgery. I think you might enjoy it. It's at: IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

Joann,

I first read quilt guild as guilt guild and I wondered why in the world you would want to belong to that. I guess I really have guilt on my mind as some of my posts on other threads and in my blog show. Some of the OA and other weight loss meetings I've attended really would qualify as guilt guilds. I remember from other 12-step recovery groups the saying, Don't should on me." and "Don't should on yourself." And I would add, "Don't should on others." Maybe I'll do tonight's blog on that. Thanks for the recommendation to my blog. You can click on this link to read it. Posts go back, I think, to June 9.

IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

This looks like a great site. One of the best on lapbandtalk. I'm Cheri, and I had my band on June 18. I'm going to have to learn how to do all the fancy graphics you guys have. I'm a teacher and you know we're the last to learn technology--we're too busy teaching the basics, like reading, writing, and arithmetic. So far I've lost at least 20 pounds. Now that the swellings down I'm currently not feeling much restriction but I'm following the post-op diet closely cause I don't want to gain the weight back before my first fill. I happen to really like meat and Atkins shakes so I'm keeping my Protein high and my carbs low. I get my milk by making iced decaff lattes with Splenda during the day. They really see me through between meals and help me get my 64 oz of Fluid. I also started a blog as soon as I found out I'd been approved for surgery and the date had been set. It's really been helping me cope with the food addiction aspects. If you'd like to read it you can find it at IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

One idea from my blog I'd like to share was commented on by one of your leaders. I've copied it here.

In an earlier blog I said that we ought to hold marathons and walkathons and start wearing purple ribbons to build awareness of this life-threatening disease and to offer support for those who suffer from it as well as dollars for research to help prevent and control it. It worked for breast cancer. I would bet more people die from this disease. In fact, obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer (and heart disease, strokes, colon cancer, diabetes and more). Breast cancer used to be an unmentionable disease. Now we all proudly wear pink ribbons. Let's get obesity and all food addicitons out of the closet and into the light of day so that no one ever has to feel guilty about seeking a medical solution for this medical condition anymore than they would getting treatment for breast cancer.

Why purple? Because those of us with this disease are all wounded hearts, because that color hasn't been used yet, and because we, too, are God's children. That makes us royalty.

Guilt--why do so many of us feel such guilt? I've been browsing several of the threads and post--particularly the Christian and 12-step threads and see so many people haunted by guilt and telling about those who guilt them from their churches and OA and FAA groups. Guilt for having the addiction, guilt for not being able to follow all the rigid rules and food plans imposed by the food nazis who dominate many of these groups, guilt over having the surgery. God grants grace not guilt. I'm copying one of my posts from my blog where I talk about guilt to this post. You can check out more of my blog at IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Guilt, Shame, and Other Ineffective Motivators

Let me get this right out in front. Food addiction is not sin. Glorying in it is. Flaunting it is. Refusing to do anything about it is.

Using willpower doesn't work for long except in very anal people, which I am not. For most of us, this is the thorn in the flesh that God refuses to remove, despite ernest prayer and pleas. Different methods work for different people, but having people guilt you, shame you, humiliate you, preach at you, quote Bible verses to you, tell you you just need willpower, or to pray harder, doesn't work. In fact, most of these things backfire, cause even more guilt and shame than we already carry, and drive us deeper into the food.

Scientists are working on drugs that work on those addiction centers of the brain that control the cravings for over-eating as well as other addictions. This is a brain-based disease and most of us can trace the cravings back to early childhood whether our bodies reflected the disorder or not.

Most of us have fought long and hard to contain the cravings. Yet the disease grows along with our hopelessness. We lose weight only to regain it with interest.

In addition to the cravings for the substance itself, food is a proven numbing medication for issues like sexual and physical abuse, service to others at the expense of taking care of ourselves, stuffing our feelings and not speaking up for ourselves, depression, and in my case I would add, ADHD.

For me, food helps me concentrate and sit still. The restlessness that overwhelms me, the stillness and concentration that society and social convention require from me are brought under control with food--especially chocolate.

This is the only addiction that requires you to indulge it 3x a day. We can't live with food and we can't live without it.

Don't judge us. Don't give us advice. Pray for us. Love us. Accept us the way we are. This is a disease of silence. but our bodies speak louder than our words. Encourage us to break our silence, to talk about the pain of our condition--which is the human condition, under which all creation groans, waiting for that final redemption

Thank you Clempier. I've been reading this thread and the other Christian Bandster thread as well as the 12-step thread. I've been struck by how consumed by guilt we all are. I'm copying here my most recent post on my blog:

IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

Saturday, July 4, 2009

God Grants Grace, not Guilt

I spent a lot of time yesterday and today exploring a lapband website. There's a religious forum with a page for Christians and there's a 12-step forum with a few threads for those attending OA (Overeaters Anonymous) and FAA(Food Addicts Anonymous.) After reading many of the posts I came to a not-so-surprising conclusion. Guilt and shame are a way of life for people suffering from food addiction. People seem to be heaping guilt either on themselves or on others.

Christians accuse themselves of gluttony and beat themselves up over that. Other Christians really do say horrible things to them like, "Why are you getting that surgery, why don't you just pray?" Many Christian weight loss groups can have so many rules to follow that most people are bound to fail heaping guilt upon guilt.

OA and FAA attenders get accused of taking the "easier, softer way" if they get lap band surgery for which they beat themselves up. They also suffer attacks from the food nazis who have taken over OA and FAA and and who are addicted to adding food restriction upon food restriction and enforcing rule upon rule.

Guilt and shame have a horrible history of sabotaging recovery and driving people deeper into the food (or any other addictions).

Whether you believe addictions are sin or not (I believe they are brain-based disorders, not sin, that came into this world as a result of sin and that under their influence people do commit sin), beating yourself up over them is a sure-fire path to relapse.

Serenity is extremely important in recovery and those consumed by guilt and self-blame have no serenity.

We need to break the bondage of guilt. Especially unearned guilt and shame. God gave us the gift of grace, not of guilt. I like to say I gave up guilt for Lent.

As far as the rigid rule makers and enforcers--most of these people have simply replaced one type of food obsession with another and their rigid adherance to a code is all they've got. They transfer their internal shame and need for control onto others. It's just another insidious form of this disease. They don't know grace, and hence can't grant it.

Someday, Grace will come again and banish all guilt. He will wipe away every tear from our eyes. Come quickly Lord Jesus.

I've just started exploring this web site--I was banded June 18--and I've actually talked about this issue on the 12 step thread and on Christian bandsters. The OA's around me seem to have been taken over by the food nazis and rigid rule makers and enforcers. I don't feel safe at those meetings and stopped attending. Years ago the meetings weren't like that. We discussed the steps and how to use them to address our food issues. Now it seems that everybody's defining abstinance in very rigid ways and they've piled restrictions on top of restrictions. We carry enough guilt without adding reasons for carrying more. I'm going to copy my latest entry from my blog which I wrote on this subject at: IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

Saturday, July 4, 2009

God Grants Grace, not Guilt

I spent a lot of time yesterday and today exploring a lapband website. There's a religious forum with a page for Christians and there's a 12-step forum with a few threads for those attending OA (Overeaters Anonymous) and FAA(Food Addicts Anonymous.) After reading many of the posts I came to a not-so-surprising conclusion. Guilt and shame are a way of life for people suffering from food addiction. People seem to be heaping guilt either on themselves or on others.

Christians accuse themselves of gluttony and beat themselves up over that. Other Christians really do say horrible things to them like, "Why are you getting that surgery, why don't you just pray?" Many Christian weight loss groups can have so many rules to follow that most people are bound to fail heaping guilt upon guilt.

OA and FAA attenders get accused of taking the "easier, softer way" if they get lap band surgery for which they beat themselves up. They also suffer attacks from the food nazis who have taken over OA and FAA and and who are addicted to adding food restriction upon food restriction and enforcing rule upon rule.

Guilt and shame have a horrible history of sabotaging recovery and driving people deeper into the food (or any other addictions).

Whether you believe addictions are sin or not (I believe they are brain-based disorders, not sin, that came into this world as a result of sin and that under their influence people do commit sin), beating yourself up over them is a sure-fire path to relapse.

Serenity is extremely important in recovery and those consumed by guilt and self-blame have no serenity.

We need to break the bondage of guilt. Especially unearned guilt and shame. God gave us the gift of grace, not of guilt. I like to say I gave up guilt for Lent.

As far as the rigid rule makers and enforcers--most of these people have simply replaced one type of food obsession with another and their rigid adherance to a code is all they've got. They transfer their internal shame and need for control onto others. It's just another insidious form of this disease. They don't know grace, and hence can't grant it.

Someday, Grace will come again and banish all guilt. He will wipe away every tear from our eyes. Come quickly Lord Jesus.

This is an Great thread! Like so many I have struggled with the chains of Obesity, Gluttony, guilt, and obsession. God is awesome! and he will never forsake us in our times of need. I see the lapband as a tool us meeting Him half way! Thank you all for this thread to remind eachother if this.

This is a post from my blog: IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Guilt, Shame, and Other Ineffective Motivators

Let me get this right out in front. food addiction is not sin. Glorying in it is. Flaunting it is. Refusing to do anything about it is.

Using willpower doesn't work for long except in very anal people, which I am not. For most of us, this is the thorn in the flesh that God refuses to remove, despite ernest prayer and pleas. Different methods work for different people, but having people guilt you, shame you, humiliate you, preach at you, quote Bible verses to you, tell you you just need willpower, or to pray harder, doesn't work. In fact, most of these things backfire, cause even more guilt and shame than we already carry, and drive us deeper into the food.

Scientists are working on drugs that work on those addiction centers of the brain that control the cravings for over-eating as well as other addictions. This is a brain-based disease and most of us can trace the cravings back to early childhood whether our bodies reflected the disorder or not.

Most of us have fought long and hard to contain the cravings. Yet the disease grows along with our hopelessness. We lose weight only to regain it with interest.

In addition to the cravings for the substance itself, food is a proven numbing medication for issues like sexual and physical abuse, service to others at the expense of taking care of ourselves, stuffing our feelings and not speaking up for ourselves, depression, and in my case I would add, ADHD.

For me, food helps me concentrate and sit still. The restlessness that overwhelms me, the stillness and concentration that society and social convention require from me are brought under control with food--especially chocolate.< /p>

This is the only addiction that requires you to indulge it 3x a day. We can't live with food and we can't live without it.

Don't judge us. Don't give us advice. Pray for us. Love us. Accept us the way we are. This is a disease of silence. but our bodies speak louder than our words. Encourage us to break our silence, to talk about the pain of our condition--which is the human condition, under which all creation groans, waiting for that final redemption

I've started copying posts from my blog to the blog provided on this site but I've only done a few. I believe God grants us grace, not guilt. I like to say I've given up guilt for Lent. Guilt is totally unproductive and keeps us mired in the food. God gave us a wonderful gift of jumpstarting our healing from food addiction with the lapband. Celebrate.:eek:

THis is from my blog. IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Guilt, Shame, and Other Ineffective Motivators

Let me get this right out in front. food addiction is not sin. Glorying in it is. Flaunting it is. Refusing to do anything about it is.

Using willpower doesn't work for long except in very anal people, which I am not. For most of us, this is the thorn in the flesh that God refuses to remove, despite ernest prayer and pleas. Different methods work for different people, but having people guilt you, shame you, humiliate you, preach at you, quote Bible verses to you, tell you you just need willpower, or to pray harder, doesn't work. In fact, most of these things backfire, cause even more guilt and shame than we already carry, and drive us deeper into the food.< /p>

Scientists are working on drugs that work on those addiction centers of the brain that control the cravings for over-eating as well as other addictions. This is a brain-based disease and most of us can trace the cravings back to early childhood whether our bodies reflected the disorder or not.

Most of us have fought long and hard to contain the cravings. Yet the disease grows along with our hopelessness. We lose weight only to regain it with interest.

In addition to the cravings for the substance itself, food is a proven numbing medication for issues like sexual and physical abuse, service to others at the expense of taking care of ourselves, stuffing our feelings and not speaking up for ourselves, depression, and in my case I would add, ADHD.

For me, food helps me concentrate and sit still. The restlessness that overwhelms me, the stillness and concentration that society and social convention require from me are brought under control with food--especially chocolate.

This is the only addiction that requires you to indulge it 3x a day. We can't live with food and we can't live without it.

Don't judge us. Don't give us advice. Pray for us. Love us. Accept us the way we are. This is a disease of silence. but our bodies speak louder than our words. Encourage us to break our silence, to talk about the pain of our condition--which is the human condition, under which all creation groans, waiting for that final redemption.

I have some similar posts that may help you to break the bondage of guilt. Especially unearned guilt and shame. God gave us the gift of grace, not of guilt. I like to say I gave up guilt for Lent.

You two are exactly right about what "people" say! I for one kept it private until after I started losing. I still haven't told anyone at work, just family and my small group. I just wanted to avoid the little quips like Don't you have any will power? Isn't Christ enough? You should pray more! Actually because of this mentality I did a lot of praying and searching guidance before I did it. I told God that I needed CLEAR guidance and direction before I would do this.

And God is so faithful! The verse He gave me was "If your right eye offends you pluck it out..." This was so perfect for my situation! I have been obsessing on my weight, my calories, my food for soo many years and tried over and over to give it to God. This band has been the prompt I needed to give it up! Praise Him for his mighty works! It was like cutting off my right hand...Now that temptation is gone from my life!

Now when people ask about why couldn't I do it on my own I tell them, many people need extra help in many areas even you! God knows our shortfalls. Some people have to give up computers, some have to stay away from small children, some need Anger management. I needed a restriction! Sorry church ladies, nobody is as perfect as you are! Even you.

I'll get off my soap box now.:eek:

I started a blog to deal with just such issues the day I found out I was approved for surgery and needed to immediately start the pre-surgical diet. I've transferred some of that blog to the blog they give you here. I decided to tell everyone about my surgery through my blog and sent it to my church's prayer chain, to all my choir members, to all my family members, and I regularly post it on Facebook. I'm tired of hiding and secrecy and believe they're part of the disease, even though, in my case, my stomach was sticking out for all the world to see. I can see from the posts here that we all deal with the same doubts and fears. We allow Christianity (or ours and others distorted version of it) to get in the way of the miraculous healing God has for us through lap band surgery. I'll continue transferring posts from one blog to the other, but you may want to check it out directly at:

IF YOUR STOMACH OFFENDS YOU, TIE IT OFF

I also had to write down EVERY piece of food I put in my mouth(all was weighed and measured to the ounce according to the plan), commit it to my sponsor,journal every day, do step work every day,and make 3 contact calls each day as well attend 3 weekly meetings either phone or f2f. If there was a change in , say... a vegetable or fruit for the day, I had to call my sponsor, another member, or post it on a board BEFORE I ate it.

I needed the Band! I had other things to take care of rather than ME ME ME.

It took courage to change all that and I am glad I did.

I still benefit However, from the spiritual principles of 12 step because I feel a lot of it stems from the Beatitudes.

I would love to find an OA offshoot of those with WL surgery or a group which had no self- centered food nazis...some of us overweight people DO HAVE A LIFE and have others to care for also.

OK..enough kvetching about 12 Step nazis for me....remembrances tend to shade the day and rob that newly found Serenity!.

Looking forward to a fill next week.

I have 4 weeks till my first fill. You are absolutely right about the serenity. I find being around people or meetings that fill me with either shame or anger takes away my serenity and drives me into the food. If Bill Wilson were to attend today's OA meetings he'd either laugh his head off, or metaphorically overturn the tables of the moneychangers. At my Alanon meetings we talked about the steps and the principles of the program and how we were working them. As we recovered we talked less and less about the alcoholic, or we talked about the alcoholic only in terms of how we were working the steps in dealing with him/her. That's how OA needs to be.

Maybe we should start our own on-line meeting, GAL-WLS (Get A Life-Weight Loss Surgery). We welcome recovering food nazis.

Actually, I probably shouldn't make fun. These people have simply replaced one type of food obsession with another and their rigid adherance to a code is all they've got. They transfer their internal shame and need for control onto others. It's just another insidious form of this disease.

I hear you all loud and clear!

I love your blog, ifyourstomach....

Rigid plans: I was in FAA 12 step and Grey Sheet, an off shoot of OA.

I was bounced back to day 1 so many times because I failed to be abstinent from all sugar,and its substitutes, flour and wheat on a B2B basis, that I threw in the towel. Once my sponsor bounced me back to day 1 because I ate my rice 2 hours early in the evening because I had skipped lunch due to being away from an accommodating eating place and with friends. I failed to pack a cooler and cart it in to a restaurant with the people I was with.(One mom whose son was getting married toted a cooler on the plane and sat at the reception as the Mother of the Bride eating out of her cooler? Now THAT is rigidity.

12 Step has many good benefits, but some of the groups are almost cultic.The more liberal groups still ridicule and look down on those who "took the easy way out". Little do they know that the addiction is still there and the battle is the same, we just have help with the Band.

So I woke up one day having had enough and applied for Banding, finally finding the courage to change the things I can.

I am glad I did . I have lost a bit and am scheduled for my 1st fill on Tuesday.

Congrats, Bandana for locating a suitable sponsor..that is GOLD!

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 know what you mean. There are times I'm able to gety down mor than I know I should simply because whatever I'm eating tastes so good. Also before I was banded, I often ate a big variety of food at each meal. There were times I'd have 2 different kinds of sandwiches or like pizza and chicken. I just ate a ton of food. I certainly do much better than I used to, but the temptation is still there and I often crave things. Where did you stART your blog?

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.

Cheri, good for you for recognizing so early on the role you have to play in this process.

I can promise you further on down the track you will not be able to do these things. To a large extent, it will take care of itself.

The ONLY reason you can drink while you're eating now and get ot eat more, or why you can eat for longer and get to eat more is that you dont have optimum restriction.

Try the drinking thing a year or two down the track when you've had a few fills and you'll vomit - NOTHING guarantees meeting your dinner again like shoving liquid on top of it, liquid that has nowhere to go. And you wont be able to eat for a solid half hour either. The food will stay in your pouch and not start to empty out like it does now.

the good thing about the band and fills is that its incremental and you get used to your restrictions bit by bit.

the bad thing about the band and fills is that its incremental, lol, and you panic at first that it hasnt worked.

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

OK. So I had the surgery. I have an important tool, but I still have to deal with the food addiction.

I'm amazed at how easy it is to add liquid during the meal and get to eat more. I'm also amazed at how easy it is if you take tiny bites and chew things to death how easy it is to keep on eating beyond the 30 minute limit. I'm doing well but I'm just saying. All the old triggers still exist.:tongue2:

I started a blog when I found out I was ok'd for surgery and I discuss a lot of the addiction issues that trigger me. It's part of my effort to deal. You may also find it helpful.

Cheri

Banded: 6/1l8/09:thumbup:

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: