Pain, suffering, struggle...

Once again. great post.  Thank you for sharing :)

Jen

I tried to view your profile page but OH says you don't exist. How inteesting. I guess you lost so much you are but a ghost of your former self! ha ha

Kate

LOL my boyfriend is begging me to gain 10 pounds - never happening!!!  I'll add you as a friend.  My profile is set to private.

wonderful post, Happy. Part of this whole process is recognizing what our triggers are for off plan eating (stress, anxiety, bordom, availability or whatever) and learning to think differently about how to deal with those triggers.  I used to wake up every day thinking "I hate being fat" and "what can I eat?"   very schizzo! Not always a lot of logic to this.

I try to keep a list of other stuff to do when those urges strike me and I also don't keep the roasted almonds sitting on the counter so i don't see them and grab them.

Thanks for your insight.

diane

Happy, thanks so much for this post.  You're my here, you know. 

This weekend, I went camping (and rock climbing!) in an old, familiar place that I hadn't been to in a long time.  It's amazing how many food associations this place turned up for me (warm weather + campfire = smores and ice cream).  As I get further and further out from surgery, I'm noticing that (1) I have more urges to eat off-plan and (2), my primary defence against these urges is really my brain, not my sleeve.  The sleeve works best as a back-up.  So I too struggled some this weekend, and like you, won.  Whatever the triggers are, we can definitely ride them out, feel them, and then say good-bye to them without having to give in.

They say life is 10% action and 90% RE-action.  It's how we handle what comes our way that's important.

Thank you again for your thoughtful post. 

Fiona