Things that I need to know and remind myself of

Jun 08, 2011

Brandilynn note
She is indeed!!  One of the books I will give you a link to the book so you can peruse it, you can see if they are in your local bookstore, or I like to shop on half.com

Here is my blurb.  Nice to meetcha by the by.

For your emotional onion peeling back Shrink Yourself or Beck Diet Solution.  They are both cognitive behavioral books and help you to learn to talk with yourself between your trigger and your knee jerk reaction.  Beck is great, but I like the Shrink Yourself guy a little betterNG.  But both are supergreat.

For maintenance (and for losing but it has been a great help during maintenance) is 10 Thin Commandments.  He helps you to understand that there are not good and bad foods, just good and bad food HISTORIES!   (this is the link to the book, not where to buy it http://books.google.com/books?id=Nl2bfrlGW4AC&lpg=PR1&ots=Fr kuEEWBTi&dq=%22thin%20commandments%22&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q&f=f alse ) 

If I have NEVER been able to eat 2 cookies and 2 cookies ends up equalling a bag of cookies plus whatever else I binge on - then it doesnt MATTER how many calories 2 cookies has - if I WILL eat the entire bag, see?

There are some things I enjoy OUT, and once a month MAXIMUM, cuz in my home they equal trouble, and stopping by the store to get me "some" equals trouble, those things are Lime Flavored Tostitos, house fried rice and pizza. 

I have the chips (once a month max - cuz that seems to be all my brain can handle before it starts to whisper I could get some and just not TELL anyone which ya know? If i have to HIDE it, then I dont need to be DOING it) at party functions - and again, only once a month.  We dont go out to eat much so I dont have the Chinese food or the pizza even nearly once a month - but I KNOW if I bring them home - then I will start the old ugly cycle.

You know, alcoholics have to DRINK - they just need to CHOOSE to not drink booze.  Folks with food sensitivities have to eat, they just need to CHOOSE not to eat the things that cause them to binge.  Its the same kind of deal.  It helps you to see what is an okay all the time food, sometime food and keep it iin the box because once its out - your its ***** kind of food.

And the latest helpful book has been The End of Overeating. He really, for me, helps to pull the curtain back and show you the science behind "You cannot just eat one" that the food scientist folks are designing things to appeal to the junkie gene in us.  its just been really helpful to see behind the curtain and realize that some stuff that I do not have "willpower" about has nothing to do with my willpower, just like meth, would not have anything to do with my willpower - I might just have the FIRST choice, to indulge - or not to - and the rest of it, is history. 

Maybe you can find them at your library or on half dot com?  They are really so very helpful.  I will go through one of them once a month - because a huge danger for me (maybe for everyone, but definitely for me) is forgetting the guards I have to have in place!! 
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Elina post
I would not push your sleeve to eat more protein.  If you can only comfortably eat 1.5 to 1.75 oz. that's just fine.  Stop there.  I would recommend that you supplement for now with one protein shake a day.  Find something low calorie and low carb with high protein.  You need to get in at least 70 g. of protein.  I would get 35 of those from the protein shake and the rest from dense protein.  Soon you will be able to wean yourself off of the shake and just eat the protein, but don't pu**** it will happen.  I think I could do it around the 3-4 month mark.  But if it takes you longer, no problem, just let it happen naturally.

Elina post:
Jo, I am 100% with you on this.  I think you hit on the real "magic" of the sleeve.  When the physical hunger is lessened, we can work on the head hunger.  I worry for those people that do not see it as a window to do the psychological work necessary to maintain.  Not enough doctors talk about the work that has to be done in addition to the surgery to make this work for the long term.  I too find that with the hunger and cravings reduced, I can act responsibly with my food.  Now that so much of my hunger and cravings have returned I can still use the small sleeve capacity AND the habits I have formed during the losing phase to maintain.     

 

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