One in ten of us will be...

I explained it above - Look up PCOS. 

I was diagnosed it at the age of 16.  It makes it practically impossible to lose weight.  I would work out all the time and eat right even as a teenager I was on sports teams and would go do Kickboxing and I'd stay the same size.   

PCOS causes cysts on your ovaries which disrupt your cycle and often times cause you not to be able to get pregnant naturally without medications or other means such as in vitro fertilization.  It also causes dark patches on your skin (due to insulin resistance), you become insulin resistant much like a diabetic except you don't take anything, you have a higher chance of becoming a Type II diabetic because of this. Those are just a few of the issues with PCOS.

 There is no direct cure for PCOS or pill you can take to fix the situation.  With that being said RNY does help take away a HUGE % of the issues.  My doctor informed me that I have a 90% chance of getting rid of all my issues with my PCOS on top of that lose this weight that I can never get rid of.  

I'm young and one day I'd like to have a family and this surgery will not only help me get there but will be the reason I can get there.  If you've never had someone tell you that you probably wont ever be able to have kids to BTW you have a 90% chance you will now - You'd take it.  

Btw - I'm not saying people here aren't addicted to food. They are also the one's that go out to fast food places right after surgery.  I'm not one of those people. This surgery is working hard for me and so i'm working hard for it.  

I guess just don't put us all in one category cause you know of 5 people that are...there could be 20 of us who aren't. 

So why did you have to make your stomach smaller if you were not overeating?  I don't understand. You got to 318 by not overeating.  That is amazing to me. Ihave never heard of anyone getting to 318 without eating themselves there.

 Lol - you are ridiculous.  I never claimed to eat 100% perfectly. Nor has anyone else on here. But that by no means = I'm addicted to food. 

If I was addicted to food I'd tell you because I'd be going to counseling to deal with it.  That's just not the case.  I will say I was a bordeom eater.  TV watching and munching on something. I stopped that months ago when I realized the issue and started this process. 

Do I really need to give out my entire health history and everything I've done EVER to prove to you that I don't go out and eat 20x a day just cause?  

Obviously food plays a part in ALL our worlds and the choices we made in what food items to eat versus a healthier choice.  BUT - there are always other issues underlining that cause the weight gain or bad choice in food.  

Anyways, I'm over arguing with you about if we are addicts or not.  I know where I stand with food and it sucks for you and your food addiction.  I don't think about food but the 3x a day I have to eat something cause my doctor says it has to be done.  I think if I was addicted to food....I'd be drooling over when I was going to eat next, instead of thinking of it as fuel to get me through the day.  

I don't think you understand the disease of addiction. Many people do not. Rabid defensiveness does means the issue strikes a sore nerve. Denial is also the main symptom along with defensiveness. Just because you don't eat 20 times a day doesn't mean you aren't a food addict. And drooling over food isn't a symptom either. Addiction has to be faced individually within oneself by first knowing the facts of addiction. This becomes a mindfulness of ones disease. Therefore to go full circle it is a good thing if WLS patients address their disease of addiction at the same time of surgery so they do not transfer their addiction to other substances of which alcohol is most commonly taken mindlessly ( unaware of addiction disease) there are those too that overheat again or struggle w food choices even after WLS. So addressing the disease of addiction can help one overcome relapses to improper eating whatever that means for each individual. It is unfortunate that you being a NORMAL eater experienced so much weight gain due to other health issues. I am unaware of that scary thought. For me I did learn that ingesting over 800 calories per day causes me to gain fat. So for me eating more than 800 cals per day is over eating

So if I say "I am a food addict," that would probably mean I am a food addict, right?  But if I say "I am not a food addict," that means I am in denial and is proof that I am indeed a food addict?  By that logic everyone in the world must be a food addict!

Some people never heard of insulin resistance, and metabolic disorders.  And if they do not know it - the issue for them does not exist and they can't never understand it.

So why would one have to cut off their stomach for I insulin resistance. Are you aware that insulin resistance is one of the physical components of the DISEASE of alcoholism?  The disease of addiction. Is a threefold disease. It is an allergy of the body a compulsion of the mind and ribbing if the spirit. 

You got a sick mind... and so weird reasoning... so twisted.

Based on your reasoning: 
1. Many alcoholics have hypoglycemia - or reactive hypoglycemia - so based on your reasoning - anyone with hypoglycemia is an alcoholic or an addict?
2. many alcoholics have vitamin deficiencies - does that mean that people with vitamin deficiencies are alcoholics
3. many alcoholics suffer from depressions : does that mean that anyone with depression is an alcoholic or an addict? 

However - could you please define food addiction? 
Maybe you and I and many other people here do not understand what do you mean by
"food addiction".  I sure don't know what you mean when you use that term.

So your saying because I have PCOS (of which insulin resistance is a component) that I REALLY have Alcoholism not insulin resistance? Even though I've never had more than one or two drinks in a year? Wow. Guess I'll call up AA now. 

 you and me both better get on the phone!!!