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One in ten of us will be...

Katari
on 6/21/12 7:36 am - OR

RNY on 09/02/09

Maybe we should start our own support group here on OH for all of us PCOS/insulin resistant/alcholics.

Katie
Ht. 5'2 HW 234/GW 150/LW 128/CW 132 Size 18/20 to a size 4 in 9 months!

manda2108
on 6/21/12 7:43 am

RNY on 12/30/11

I should get on the phone now and tell my doc it wasn't PCOS all along..I'm an alcoholic.

PS

I don't want to sound like alcoholism isn't a very serious issue my parents were alcoholics..I just find the dramatic poster is misinformed and trying to stereotype.

Katari
on 6/21/12 7:52 am - OR

RNY on 09/02/09

You know, I thought about calling my Dr. and threatening to sue him since he should have diagnosed me with addictive personality not PCOS. And I'm with ya, Alcholism is a very serious subject, it's the poster I'm having issue with.

Katie
Ht. 5'2 HW 234/GW 150/LW 128/CW 132 Size 18/20 to a size 4 in 9 months!

Adrianne_Dawn
on 6/21/12 7:52 am - WA

RNY on 05/21/12

Hahaahahaha OMG I about fell off my chair! I was like wow I haven't had a drink in MONTHS and now I'm an alcholic! Who knew!

Apparently i'm a Food addict and alcoholic now. Noooooooooooooo Wonder I have PCOS.

Rolls eyes. definition of a food addict below. BTW - may have made bad food choices before but I by no means am the definition below.

I'm not trying to be "in denial" or overly sensitive but you are VERY misinformed and apparently clueless about diseases such as PCOS. THERE IS NO CURE or PILL you can take other then RNY that seems to help with PCOS.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/mental-health-food-addict ion

People who are addicted to food tend to display many of the characteristics of addicts and alcoholics. Food addicts develop a physical, mental, emotional craving and chemical addiction to food. The characteristics of food addicts can include:

Being obsessed and/or preoccupied with food.
Having a lack of self-control when it comes to food.
Having a compulsion about food in which eating results in a cycle of bingeing despite negative consequences.
Remembering a sense of pleasure and/or comfort with food and being unable to stop using food to create a sense of pleasure and comfort.
Having a need to eat which results in a physical craving.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 6/21/12 12:26 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Ditto with trauma... But she will never know how hurtful it likely was to a number of people here to have someone dismiss and demean their desperate attempts to cope with severe trauma with food as just being "mindless addicts".

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Lady Lithia
on 6/21/12 12:41 pm

Absolutely agree. The kicker for me was to have my brother die while in my care. Food was a coping mechanism, not an addiction.

~Lady Lithia~ 200 lbs lost!
March 9, 2011 - Coccygectomy!
I chased my dreams, and my dreams, they caught me!

Hvfaith
on 6/21/12 10:00 am - St Albert, Canada

RNY on 10/19/10

Thank you. I am not a food addict. I did and sometimes still use food as a coping mechanism for depression and stress. Period. I have addicts in my life....there is a difference. Thank you Kelly

H.A.L.A B.
on 6/21/12 4:09 am, edited 6/21/12 4:10 am

RNY on 05/14/08

"they were mindless addicts..." I see.... speaking from experience .. Please speak in first person and not for all of us.

Just in case you were sleeping when the lesson was thought - some of us gained weight to to hormonal treatments, and some other issues... not everyone who was MO was a food addict..

You need to get real.. not everyone is like you...

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

Judy M.
on 6/21/12 4:30 am, edited 6/21/12 1:49 pm

RNY on 10/12/11

I see you missed my English grammer . When one says one it is meant in first person dear. But obviously I have struck a nerve that rings the deep bells of addiction within and people are reacting very aggressively. This is a good thing.

poet_kelly
on 6/21/12 4:32 am, edited 6/21/12 4:34 am - OH

RNY on 11/04/08

Actually, using "one" is third person, just like using "he" or "she." Did you miss English grammar? Along with spelling?

ETA: I would expect people to react strongly to being called "mindless addicts" or "mindless" anything, for that matter. I don't believe my initial reaction was aggressive though. I simply asked you to back up your claim that most obese people are food addicts. You didn't do that, I assume because you can't. Instead, you became aggressive, calling people mindless addicts.

Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.