My Dr office surgery booklet gives many examples of thing wls patients should not eat post op. I always wonder why people still eat the junk or even start eating it again in the first place. Most people having wls have a food addiction to some extent, mostly to junk food. When drug addicts go through rehab they are not considered clean if they just do a little drugs. So how is it acceptable that we can consider ourselves healthy if we are still eating a little junk

How far post op are you? I'm only six days and am craving my coping food very badly. .. pizza. I feel if you completely deprive yourself you will end up blowing it down the line. Like the guy from the Richard Simmons program that lost like two hundred pounds. He would not budge an inch on what he ate until one day he eventually had one hot dog then quickly gained it all back. We use the wls as a tool to get where we need to get, but eventually your pouch will stretch some and so you need to learn moderation allong the way. I think everything in moderation for maintenance is a good way to go about this in the long run. Temptation is everywhere for us. There are not commercials every few minutes for drugs. Also, someone addicted to cocaine can avoid the scene altogether. You are right you cannot tell a cocaine addict to just cope by smoking weed every day for their high and expect them to never do cocaine again. That is what we deal with in food addiction. We have to eat, but some foods are not good for us. It's like smoking weed when you want cocaine. Its very hard and I cried over pizza just during my pre op diet.

How far post op are you? I'm only six days and am craving my coping food very badly. .. pizza. I feel if you completely deprive yourself you will end up blowing it down the line. Like the guy from the Richard Simmons program that lost like two hundred pounds. He would not budge an inch on what he ate until one day he eventually had one hot dog then quickly gained it all back. We use the wls as a tool to get where we need to get, but eventually your pouch will stretch some and so you need to learn moderation allong the way. I think everything in moderation for maintenance is a good way to go about this in the long run. Temptation is everywhere for us. There are not commercials every few minutes for drugs. Also, someone addicted to cocaine can avoid the scene altogether. You are right you cannot tell a cocaine addict to just cope by smoking weed every day for their high and expect them to never do cocaine again. That is what we deal with in food addiction. We have to eat, but some foods are not good for us. It's like smoking weed when you want cocaine. Its very hard and I cried over pizza just during my pre op diet.

I am 1 yr post op. and also love pizza. I can finally eat pizza but I limit myself to 1 slice, BTW that is all I can eat anyway. In the past I would get the meat lovers or pepperoni pizza, now I just get plain or w/veggies. I cut out as much fat calories as I could. I think anything is OK in MODERATION !!!