Need some reassurance!

[WestCoastFatGuy 3]

Hey there, zetajenn,

OMG! I was TOTALLY freaked out at times. I went from feeling okay to great... to being totally mind-blown. "I am a guy!", "Guys eat a lot!", "I now eat like a supermodel", "I am a freak!", "I'm going to eat like a freak forever!" Blah, blah, blah.

Suffice it to say that all that crap was just my "inner fatguy" making one last play for my sanity and my body. I was banded on 14-Jan-2008, and can now easily say without reservations that this was the single best thing I've ever done. I finally have control of my self and my eating and my "inner fatguy" is pouting off in a corner somewhere because he didn't win. Poor little fat-*ssed guy. Don't you feel sorry for him? NOT!

[kbinaz 0]

I remember feeling as you do, and believe me it will get better. It is kind of overwhelming at first. First you can't eat at all, then when you can start eating you have to eat in a certain way and it is all new and takes so much thought. I started to feel like my whole day was consumed by eating and planning to eat and finishing eating and figuring out when I could drink but not wanting to get dehydrated and oops, did I eat too much, did I eat too fast???? And at first I couldn't even eat if anyone was around and I'm a mom so that had to change....soon it will be old hat and you will be able to do this all really easily. Just be patient with yourself and take one day at a time!