I've locked myself in the bathroom....

Hello my bariatric buddies. happy Memorial Day weekend! I am currently locked in my relatives bathroom. Every single food item here is what contributed to my morbid obesity ! Sadly,  I came over here with my cousin. I knew I should have driven my own car. Its so hard. Harder than I could've imagined. I tried some rib and almost ate half! I guess my appetite came back. ..... or maybe it's because I haven't kicked the habit of eating these foods. :-(:-(:-(

We didn't have surgery on our heads. We all have triggers, both occasions and foods that try to trip us up. I hope you're out of the bathroom and trying to enjoy the social side of Memorial Day. Why don't you allow yourself to have tastes of what you REALLY want, eat consciously and feel when you are satisfied, then push the plate away. It's an ongoing struggle to deal with emotional side of food, which is at least what caused my obesity. I deal with it every waking moment. Take it one moment at a time and you'll get thru this.

Thank you so Much!  I just let my head get too overwhelmed. Slow and steady:-) 

Hope they have some good magazines ;) 

Next time I'd bring something for everyone to enjoy that you love... so you are certain of something healthy and on your plan to eat. Who knows you may get them hooked on it.

There are a few foods I decided to eliminate from my post op life... very few but many of them are present at parties and events. I don't do the few bites thing because sooner than you'd like a few bites becomes many bites (physically) so those few things are just not food to me anymore which I think helps... I don't crave them, they just aren't my food. Everyone's journey is different... that works for me. 

Go out, sit with your back to the buffet and remember why you started. 

~Shell

 

That's an interesting way of looking at it, "not my food anymore". I guess with some of the foods I just have to accept that fact.  Thank you! 

There's nothing wrong with a serving of BBQ;  just stop when your nose starts to run, and then enjoy all the family.  That's what the gathering is all about, anyway.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by when my nose starts to run,  but regardless, I did enjoy myself!

Can you explain about the running nose comment.  Since surgery my nose constantly runs.  

After WLS, many people find that they get a runny nose when their pouch is full. Some people sneeze or hiccup. It has to do with the vagus nerve.

GO GIANTS!

my nose starts to run, even when I'm not full, wonder why some foods just trigger it?