Emotional eaters question

[Rvamom 19]

If you were an emotional eater before surgery... how did you adjust to the eating guidelines after surgery? Did you deal with transference addiction? Did surgery help you end your emotional eating? Tia.

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Real, true, sincere, soul-searching, honest motivation to lose weight helps. An even greater help is therapy, most likely of the cognitive behavior school. Surgery isn't a magical cure for obesity or emotional crap or anything else. Successful change is based on making changes in most ways.

Apart from and/or in addition to therapy there are plenty of resources. Two that are respected are:

"The Beck Diet Solution," Judith S. Beck, PhD. She is a CBT practitioner and teacher. This is her first book. The later, with a similar title, includes a food plan not designed for surgery people. Stick with the first book, as it offers more exercises and useful material. Do the exercised in order as suggested. Skipping around doesn't make the best use of the book.

shrinkyourself.com -- the website of Roger Gould, PhD, also a psychologist. Of course he has a book and a pay version of the site, but start by signing up for the free email version and proceed from there.

[tamlalynn 13]

Eat Q is a great book about emotional eating. Highly recommended

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[livvsmum 2,368]

I've had no transfer addiction, but I learned quickly that the old demons are still there. Right around 10 months post op I started going to therapy with an eating disorder therapist and I have gone to her weekly since then and I'm now about 2.5 years post op.

She connected me with the writings of Geneen Roth ("When food is Love" & "Women, food, and God") and the therapy, along with these two books, have literally changed my life.

I cannot recommend seeking out therapy or the writings of Roth highly enough!