One in ten of us will be...

Well, since my friend is too afraid to get WLS, I guess not....but we totally could be!!

Yeah, my body totally shudders at the math! Of course, my body always shudders at math, lol!

I was Morbidly Obese for a year before WLS - only slightly overweight at most for some of the 20 years before that.  I got MO from being gestationally diabetic and could not shift it after I had the baby.

I most certainly am NOT a food addict and I drink wine socially and have done since 6 weeks after my surgery and I am NOT an alcoholic either.

I am, however, a nicotine addict but have been "clean" for 10 years - haven't found this chemical addiction transferred to anything else ...

I would say I am probably in the majority on here, NOT being a food addict - Lora's views on food "addiction" are the most convincing to me ...

Oh, and I found your trashing of Hala's English (when it is NOT her first language) offensive.   She is a very  bright and eloquent woman and I think you owe her an apology.  Let's see if you are classy enough to give her one!

 I am so with you on this.  Right on.  No one on this forum ever addresses the big elephant in the room i.e. their eating disorder/ food addiction. I see you took all kinds of hell for saying what you did but I agree with you surgery sister...Dr. teaches us different than the rest I guess.

 Did a trained psychiatrist or psychologist (you know, someone actually trained to diagnose and treat addictions of various kinds) actually TELL you that "most obese peope are food addicts"?  I doubt it.

I don't know how long you have been here, but people talk about disordered eating, and how they are working through their food demons, all the time.

Lora

Only my personal experience.....

I had never had more than one drink in an evening, even pre-op.  I never understood alcoholism or the "high" that people got from alcohol.  I just didn't get it.  UNTIL I had my 1st drink after surgery.  The sensations were amplified, I get it now.  I'm not saying that I will never have another drink -- but I won't let it become a habit.  Alcohol use post-surgery requires extreme caution.

I so agree with you. One becomes alcoholic by drinking alcohol.  If you don't drink it you will have 0 chance of becoming alcoholic.

But just drinking SOME alcohol does not mean you have a 100 (or even 90 or 80...) percent chance of becoming addicted!

Lora

Who maintained that position?  Did someone say that if one drinks alcohol one becomes alcoholic?  Sort of a ridiculous assumption to make don't you think?

Just checking to see how far your all or nothing reasoning extends. Yes, I think it WOULD be a ridiculous assumption, but I think  that a lot of the assumptions that you HAVE made on this thread have been ridiculous, so this one would not have been a stretch... after all -- in your opinion, if one overeats one likely becomes a food addict, s by that same logic one who drinks would likely become an alcoholic.   It is YOUR logic, not mine.

Lora

 You can't swallow chicken but yo can swallow wine.....so true. My NUT told me food often gives you a happy place and when that happy place is taken away it is so easy to find alcohol as your new happy place. It will start with one night trying a glass and quickly realizing wow that made me feel good 
Last might let me try it again and sooner vs later I might get addicted to the wine. I have to admit I am doing this surgery and scared to death of doing something wrong. I am scared of the alcohol issue so I choose not to try it. Wh send money on something that I will get a quick high from to go away just as fast! I am a food addict it is what got me to where I am today. Working on beating that is what I doasa daily struggle. You did a great job!