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Hi everyone. I had my surgery last March 19 and am fast approaching my one year surgiversary. I have lost 70 pounds and I definitely feel so much better. However, the past few months I have seen my ability to eat increase to almost twice what I could previously do. I find myself reaching for the same foods that got me to 300 pounds. My brain knows better, but those old habits are coming back full force. It seemed like the first 6 months for the first time ever my life did not revolve around food and I was free. Those overwhelming urges for food were gone. But now I feel them again. My appetite is back. It does not help that food is the language of love in my family. I thought my new smaller stomach would help me to have just a little with them but now I feel like I am slowly losing my grip. I know what I need to do, but mainly I am just wondering if any if you have gone through this too? What helped you get control back? I am having such extreme anxiety about being a failure. My dr wanted me down at least 100 pounds by my 1 year checkup, and I am not going to make that but I am not ready to give up, thus this post to all of you. I would appreciate any responses. Thanks in advance.

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Hi...sorry to hear your having a hard time, but 70 pounds is great! I totally understand how you're feeling about food. It is one of my worries that I will slip. This is why I hope a smaller stomach will help stop me from binging as I do now.

Try reaching for something healthy instead. I know it's hard. Have you added any exercise in your daily routine? If not try that. I wear my pedometer everyday and do my best to get in 10,000 steps a day. Many times I get in over 12,000. There are days, like this past week where I was working 10-13 hour days that I was not able to get the steps in, but I'm back to it now.

Good luck!

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I heard you can get you pouch to shrink again, if you go back on Protein Shakes only for three days . I read it somewhere on one of these websites. I don't have my surgery till Monday, but I've been reading everything I can get my hands on.

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Justsleeveit- I have been walking but not consistently enough. I need to work on that for sure. I feel like so much of the success of this surgery is based on an ability to plan ahead and that has never been my strong suit. Flying by the seat of your pants just doesnt work well when you are managing the sleeve. Fatmawmaw- I wonder if that is for the bypass or the sleeve. I am all for liquids if it will help me get my restriction back. Thank you so much for your tip. Good luck on your surgery!!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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