I don't have my band yet. However, I find myself eating constantly the whole time I am reading posts on this site. I don't know if I am feeling sympathy deprivation for those on liquid diets and I eat to ease their pain, or what. Am I the only one?

Thinjen, I am glad I am not the only one.

Since deciding to go for the band, I have been eating more and more. I had been trying to overcome my compulsive eating via the "Overcoming Overeating" (OO) approach and while my compulsive eating was down, I haven't been able to lose.

Anyway, with the idea of the upcoming liquid diet and possibility of not being able to eat certain foods after banding, my body has really been getting ready for this famine by wanting everything in sight!

I don't know how else to describe this other than I must be insane. I'm in a huge depression about my size, heck I even cry about it. Yet I eat some more.

A vicious cycle. Being fat depresses me....so I eat more to comfort me...and the beat goes on. I wrote the book on this cycle...currently not in stores. I can't wait to be banded and a loser instead of branded as a loser.

I'm laughing- Its a humid 98 degrees here and I'm drinking a corona while I surf because I read that beer is a no-no after surgery. So of course when I went grocery shopping today I had to buy my last 6 pack to enjoy before my date, 8/19. And i'm going to have icecream later. Not a very healthy dinner, but its HOT.

Hehe, I once did have a habit of reading diet diet magazines and eating mars bars or tim tams at the same time, lol.

But I've been good on here, I'm preband because I'm giving it one last really good shot and I realised if I didnt do that I would indeed have a pre-band last ditch eating fest for several months and would end up even worse off.

I find my capacity for stuffing myself stupid greatest when I've lost weight and am in the gaining it back phase. Once I've hit a new high, my appetite disappears remarkably and I go back to the type of eating that if I maintained all the time I wouldnt be fat in the first place. So I generally find dieting (because you do it when you're really fat) pretty easy, its keeping going after you start feeling comfortable again that's the hard bit. Oh and keeping on eating that way.

I took a good hard look at myself and realised if I was going to have a preband eat fest, then I wasnt in the right headspace for the band. I was thinking of it as the end of something, not a new beginning. My dilemma was that if I started right now, I would fall well below the recommended BMI of 35 and I cant even pretend to have any real comorbidities. Of course, I've lost a couple of kg's and indeed am not a candidate for a band in this country, but I find it very motivating to come here all the same.

What, exactly, is a timtam? I've heard those mentioned on this site once before and have no clue. Also I know its probably not the best thing to indulge before my band, but since I've actually lost 6 lbs. since scheduling and have kicked up my exercise program I don't feel as guilty. I'm very committed to this as a life long change. I also have a lower BMI, 32.5 to be exact, that's why I'm having my surgery in Mexico by Dr.Ortiz. It also helps that he seems to have a great reputation.

A tim tam is just a chocolate biscuit. They're not that terrific actually but something of an Aussie icon. Although you can bite off one corner, then the opposite corner and suck your coffee through it, then you cram the whole thing in your mouth while it dissolves from the coffee. Not a habit I'd recommend taking up though, lol.

yeah you are right there jachut....thats one thing im addicted too

Yeah I know the feeling, I am trying hard not to stuff my face with all my favorite foods, but the way I see it, doing that defeats the whole mindset you need to have to undertake getting the band, it isn't as if you won't be able to have food again, just somethings, because I can't eat gluten or dairy I am used to sacrificing foods. I haven't had McDonalds for 3 years now, and there are many other things I can't have either so I don't worry about it, although I am having a roast tonite with golden syrup dumplings. But yeah I am going to miss eating some foods, but I just look into the future and know that I have made the right decision and think of the sexy slimmer me.

Ummmm, I am banded and I am eating M&M's as I am reading this. You caught me!

Well, I never thought I would say this but, I'm actually sick of cheesecake! My banding is August 29,2005 and I have been eating like a maniac at the advice of a close friend and fellow bander. She loves her band and has has great success 85lbs. so far, and encouraged me to eat now because I won't be eating later. She assures me this is a wonderful occurence and not to be afraid and if I want to eat now, I should, so who am I not to follow the advice of a close friend and former fellow prisoner of fat? Even though the cheesecake in the refrigerator is decadent and overindulgent, I feel it's my duty as a temporary guest of the cushioned world of padding that I live in to finish off that darn, delicious dessert as soon as it sounds good again- at least an hour or less! No more self-hate afterwards though, my journey is about to begin and I am so ready. Till later fellow banders.

A tim tam is just a chocolate biscuit. They're not that terrific actually but something of an Aussie icon. Although you can bite off one corner, then the opposite corner and suck your coffee through it, then you cram the whole thing in your mouth while it dissolves from the coffee. Not a habit I'd recommend taking up though, lol.

Oh my gosh that sounds so yummy! I'm keeping my eyes peeled...I wanna try just one!!!

The worst thing is they even make timtams for those of us who need a gluten free fix. they are so rich and bigger and yummier than the normal ones :laugh . Oh well no more nero's (that's what they are called).

SuziiQ

24 days to go!!