any other weight loss procedures I can get after rny?
You are not a failure, but you are "getting the payoff for the investment you are making".
You could have some other procedure that might help you lose 60, 70 or even 100 lbs. That is the easy part. How are you going to KEEP IT OFF?
You have to be prepared to invest the time, work and money for quality food to be successful long term. I'll bet you'd find a very tiny group of people on OH that lost all their excess weight and kept it off with little investment in lifestyle change.
Every single time you choose to eat something that is not healthy, you are consciously doing so. Somehow you have to find a way to tell yourself NO. Is it easy, hell no! Can it be done? Hell yes! I DO IT EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Regular, strenuous exercise is my golden ticket. There are no athletes that are psychopaths or serial killers because endorphins make you happy!!!
You could have some other procedure that might help you lose 60, 70 or even 100 lbs. That is the easy part. How are you going to KEEP IT OFF?
You have to be prepared to invest the time, work and money for quality food to be successful long term. I'll bet you'd find a very tiny group of people on OH that lost all their excess weight and kept it off with little investment in lifestyle change.
Every single time you choose to eat something that is not healthy, you are consciously doing so. Somehow you have to find a way to tell yourself NO. Is it easy, hell no! Can it be done? Hell yes! I DO IT EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Regular, strenuous exercise is my golden ticket. There are no athletes that are psychopaths or serial killers because endorphins make you happy!!!
In this case, no surgery will really help you there 100%. They are all tools, and changing your habits and lifestyle is the ONLY way to assure 100% success. You have to change, sooner or later the tool stops working FOR you and you have to work for IT.
Good news, you know what you are having issues with, so start there!
Good news, you know what you are having issues with, so start there!
Heather
Since 2008 my team has raised over $42,000 to fight breast cancer.
Since 2008 my team has raised over $42,000 to fight breast cancer.
Let me qualify this by saying I HEAR YOU.
I am the parent of not one, but TWO addicts, one of which abused me most of my life so I get the deep, dark demons in the past. There were so many hurdles to overcome in this lifestyle, not the least of which being that food WAS my safe place. I didn't know how to deal at first without it and felt very much like an unswaddled baby.
Would you say you have addiction issues? (Food addiction?)
If so, treatment aimed at addiction would probably be most effective. I see a regular therapist but participating in OA and other venues and talking about my addiction in TERMS of addiction helps me.
What also helps me, as a food addict (again not saying that's how you identify yourself but just in case), is to profess my addiction: the good, the bad and the ugly. I do that a lot here. When you call out your issues they have less power over you.
So yes, I can say that in the past I would eat damn near anything to self-soothe. No, that food did not always have to be "good" (as in within an expiration date) or sanitary. The point was to shove something in my mouth and I had such little respect for myself that I did so without regards to the consequences!
These days the damn peanut butter and I go into war cycles. I can go through a family sized jar of peanut butter in five days. I lie not! I can tell you this because I have done it. And justified it with malabsorption.
Am I proud of these things? Hell, no! But saying them out loud makes me accountable to them and it takes away the whole shame/secret/sin/shame cycle. It's out in the open. You all know about it. Therefore, it's ok to SAY I'm struggling with peanut butter. It won't be a shock to anyone. It's ok to say I need help.
Those are the distinctions that make or break MY process. I talk a lot about the words we use to describe our journeys and while it may seem like fluff, much of our journey IS in words. Not bites. Not chews. Not plates, not cups, not calories, not carbs, not protein, not cardio...but words -- the words we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are "in this for," the words we share with others about our struggle and how we let the words of others (our family, friends, mainstream media) affect us.
I hope you get your head around the changes you need to make. It's tough but I know you! You can do this!
I am the parent of not one, but TWO addicts, one of which abused me most of my life so I get the deep, dark demons in the past. There were so many hurdles to overcome in this lifestyle, not the least of which being that food WAS my safe place. I didn't know how to deal at first without it and felt very much like an unswaddled baby.
Would you say you have addiction issues? (Food addiction?)
If so, treatment aimed at addiction would probably be most effective. I see a regular therapist but participating in OA and other venues and talking about my addiction in TERMS of addiction helps me.
What also helps me, as a food addict (again not saying that's how you identify yourself but just in case), is to profess my addiction: the good, the bad and the ugly. I do that a lot here. When you call out your issues they have less power over you.
So yes, I can say that in the past I would eat damn near anything to self-soothe. No, that food did not always have to be "good" (as in within an expiration date) or sanitary. The point was to shove something in my mouth and I had such little respect for myself that I did so without regards to the consequences!
These days the damn peanut butter and I go into war cycles. I can go through a family sized jar of peanut butter in five days. I lie not! I can tell you this because I have done it. And justified it with malabsorption.
Am I proud of these things? Hell, no! But saying them out loud makes me accountable to them and it takes away the whole shame/secret/sin/shame cycle. It's out in the open. You all know about it. Therefore, it's ok to SAY I'm struggling with peanut butter. It won't be a shock to anyone. It's ok to say I need help.
Those are the distinctions that make or break MY process. I talk a lot about the words we use to describe our journeys and while it may seem like fluff, much of our journey IS in words. Not bites. Not chews. Not plates, not cups, not calories, not carbs, not protein, not cardio...but words -- the words we tell ourselves about who we are and what we are "in this for," the words we share with others about our struggle and how we let the words of others (our family, friends, mainstream media) affect us.
I hope you get your head around the changes you need to make. It's tough but I know you! You can do this!
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