http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/healthy-relationship-to-food-habits_n_5107037.html

Excellent article, and after a year I am actually starting to see some of these manifest themselves in my own life.

Nice article, thanks for sharing.

Hmmm. I'm sure the author was never obese. These platitudes are not workable for the obese. Especially the "everything in moderation" because we don't eat anything we like in moderation. If we could, we never would have been candidates for WLS in the first place. "Mindful" or "Intuitive" eating does not work for obese people either, because our state has altered our mindfullness and intuition, rendering both of these inexistant or at least unreliable.

Seriously, have you ever known a 350-pound person get to goal and stay at goal through mindful eating?

It's an interesting read now that we are banded, and have an appetite dimmer/mechanical brake that allows us to adopt the mindset that permits the type of eating described in the article. But there is no doubt in my mind that without my band, the strategies this author describes just wouldn't work for me in the longterm.

I have a huge issue with non-obese writers writing weight loss tips. Can you tell?

Very interesting!

OK, I'll fess up.

1. Huh? I think so?

2. Agree with Parisshel. Don't sit me down in front of a stack of baklava, chips and quac or a taco bar.

3. Still working on this one.

4. 75% there on this one.

5. Nailed this one 90% of the time.

6. 100% A+

7. 90% of the time. Sometimes triscuits sneak into the pantry for a short stay.

8. 100% OK.

9. 80% OK

10. Easy one for me since I work from home. 100%

11. Not sure I agree with this one. I'll go for an extra 5-10 miles on the bike if I overdo a meal.

12. This one's kindof mushy? What'r they talking about?

13. I still fight this one. Not when I'm home, but dinner with friends, going out, traveling?

14. 75% most of the time.

I don't feel the article is directed just at obese people. I see points that apply to someone that might be anorexic too. And I didn't feel that it was a "do this to lose weight" article either. So it never entered my mind about what the weight of the author might be/have been. I think I'll read it again and see what I can apply to my life more.

It's an interesting read now that we are banded, and have an appetite dimmer/mechanical brake that allows us to adopt the mindset that permits the type of eating described in the article. But there is no doubt in my mind that without my band, the strategies this author describes just wouldn't work for me in the longterm.

I have a huge issue with non-obese writers writing weight loss tips. Can you tell?

The reason that I like the article is that for whatever reason I never had a healthy relationship with food, and now that I do have the help of my band I am trying to figure out what that type of relationship looks like. What made me most happy is that several of the conclusions of the article, I had come to independently of any outside research, simply by trying the different things and keeping those that work for me. And you are 1000% correct, this article would have absolutely no pre-band, but for where I am today, it is very significant.