Changing behavior

Friday night has always seemed to involve takeout or eating bad at the end of the week in our household.  Even 9 days post op and the brain knows it is a pizza night.  It is definitely all brain because no way my stomach could do it.  I just got full off of 2 oz of greek yogurt.  My little ones 4 and 7 of course don't realize it, but my 7 yo overdosed on ice cream at the grandparents this week and I think she is going through withdrawal.  She really wants it and I am refusing to have it in the house.  We really haven't had it in the house in months.  She settled on a popcicle instead.  I certainly am not depriving them they have plenty of healthier snack choices.  I know that this surgery will actually make things healthier for everyone, but how do we adjust in the meantime?   

It sounds like you are adjusting.  You are changing your behavior.  In the past you would have ordered pizza and instead tonight you ate two ounces of yogurt.  I'm guessing in the past you would have gotten your daughter some ice cream, and instead now you are offering her a popsicle instead.

I don't think there is any magic trick to make the adjustment easy or fast.  It takes time to develop habits.  For how many months or years was Friday night pizza night?  Nine days isn't enough time to change that habit from pizza night to yogurt night!  I think you just make the adjustment by consciously choosing the behaviors you want to become new habits, and practicing them over and over again, until it becomes the norm for you.

I don't think Fridays can't be pizza night again. I've seen some great recipes for healthy ways to make it once your pouch is ready that is. I live at home (thank you ever increasing student loans) and my mom is scheduled for surgery 8/20 and it's a chance for us to relearn eating and creating food that is beneficial for our bodies and not harmful.

We use to have pizza on Friday or Saturday night and watch movies.  That stopped in 2008 when I was banded.  The adults don't miss it.   I do make pizza on the wheat thin breads for the grand kids which they love.  It is a personal size pizza for them and extremely fast and easy for lunch.   I can eat one without any pouch or digestion problems.

small steps :)

We also ordered pizza or fast food on Friday's in our house. Since surgery we've ordered pizza 3 times total, and never on Friday. I found the habit easier to switch by still allowing the kids to have it but switching it to different nights each time. This week we had it on Wed. I can eat the cheese and meat toppings off of it so that is all I eat. 2 oz of toppings and the family still gets their pizza... just less often.

Hang in there as hard as it is to do this with kids its harder with adults.  My son has adjusted nicely to our new eating habits. It's my mom who lives with us that is my undoing.  I have competely got my son off of soda and he eats far more heathily now. Its the best thing that I could have done for him.  Your daughter will get over the ice cream thing.  Ice cream is supposed to be a sometimes food anyway.   Healthy habits now may prevent her from being overweight when she grows up.  Good for you for being such a good mom!  ;-)