Food Addiction

des_ · February 19, 2017

I'm a recovering alcoholic and have also been sober nearly 9 years. I've heard other recovering alcoholics talk about transferring addictions in the rooms, but I haven't heard a whole lot of people speak specifically about struggling with food addiction issues. I abuse food too. I find I get the same kind of mental obsession with it as I did with alcohol. I see a lot of similarities with overeating as I do my alcoholism.

Walter.Sobchak · February 19, 2017

I'm a recovering alcoholic and have also been sober nearly 9 years. I've heard other recovering alcoholics talk about transferring addictions in the rooms, but I haven't heard a whole lot of people speak specifically about struggling with food addiction issues. I abuse food too. I find I get the same kind of mental obsession with it as I did with alcohol. I see a lot of similarities with overeating as I do my alcoholism.

I agree with you 100 percent.

JaneR2D2 · February 21, 2017

You have done really well!! The restriction caused by the surgery will help you even more. I wanted to eat a large DQ cone, which would be akin to eating a whole carton before my sleeve surgery. I did manage to eat most of it (not the cone part), anyway, I felt like crap afterwards and was quite ill. I won't be doing that again!!!

Walter.Sobchak · February 21, 2017

You have done really well!! The restriction caused by the surgery will help you even more. I wanted to eat a large DQ cone, which would be akin to eating a whole carton before my sleeve surgery. I did manage to eat most of it (not the cone part), anyway, I felt like crap afterwards and was quite ill. I won't be doing that again!!!

I have totally relapsed.
I ordered pizza again yesterday.
I ate McDonald's for Breakfast today.
I feel bloated and sick.
I am uncomfortable in my own skin right now.
It makes me sad, depressed and suicidal.

AnneElliot · February 21, 2017

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12 minutes ago, Walter.Sobchak said:

I have totally relapsed.
I ordered pizza again yesterday.
I ate McDonald's for Breakfast today.
I feel bloated and sick.
I am uncomfortable in my own skin right now.
It makes me sad, depressed and suicidal.

Walter, Please don't consider suicide for a minute. I know how you feel. I was very suicidal two weeks ago and admitted myself to the hospital. It's never a solution.

You need to forgive yourself for this relapse and move forward. There will be moments where you fail but there will many more moments where you succeed, that's the human condition.

I am sending you positive energy.

Walter.Sobchak · February 21, 2017

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Walter, Please don't consider suicide for a minute. I know how you feel. I was very suicidal two weeks ago and admitted myself to the hospital. It's never a solution.
You need to forgive yourself for this relapse and move forward. There will be moments where you fail but there will many more moments where you succeed, that's the human condition.
I am sending you positive energy.

I just feel so bad.
I suffer from Major Depressive Disorder, and being so overweight doesn't help.
I don't really want surgery, but I don't want to be this huge anymore either.
I almost had to be admitted 3 weeks ago.
My wife was going to make me go to the hospital into the psych ward.
I was refusing to go and she was going to have her brother, who is a police officer, come over and make me go.
He and I are close, so it would have been from a place of love but I didn't want to go.
I finally convinced her to not make me go.

AnneElliot · February 21, 2017

13 minutes ago, Walter.Sobchak said:

I just feel so bad.
I suffer from Major Depressive Disorder, and being so overweight doesn't help.
I don't really want surgery, but I don't want to be this huge anymore either.
I almost had to be admitted 3 weeks ago.
My wife was going to make me go to the hospital into the psych ward.
I was refusing to go and she was going to have her brother, who is a police officer, come over and make me go.
He and I are close, so it would have been from a place of love but I didn't want to go.
I finally convinced her to not make me go.

God, I spent all of two weekendsago begging my sister not to call the police. Finally on Monday, I took myself because I felt such deep comfort after I had my plan figured out. I knew I couldn't do it to my family. But that's how deep the pain was and I didn't have food to bury it.

I never had any issues before, experienced it all post op. My food addiction and severe fear of complications is driving me mad.

You may feel a billion times better post op as the weight falls but if your not prepared to tackle your food addiction it will haunt you as does for me.

Please seek counselling to tackle this decision don't rely on your mind to make this decision. You need an objective voice to challenge you.

Edited February 21, 2017 by AnneElliot