Guest guest Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 KC, I totally agree with you. I will never DIET again either. When I proposed the pre-holiday jump start, it was in response to someone who commented that their eating was out of control and that they would try to get back to better habits after the holidays. My reply was, why wait? Have a great holiday by starting healthy living now! Someone else replied to that by posting a diet. Some people like to get back under control by going on a temporary diet to break their present destructive binge. Others, like me who are disaster with diets and spiral downward into compulsive frenzy at the mention of the D word, prefer to look at my habits and try to eliminte the areas where I am sabatoging my health, preferring not to diet. Others may have targets totally non- food related, like getting more active, or shutting off the boob tube. THE POINT IS We set a goal of a week before for people to do anything they want which would lead to enjoying the holidays filled with self-esteem, rather than dreading the holidays and being filled with guilt and remorse. So, if you hate to diet, don't!!!! If you are happy and healthy and right on track, delete, delete, delete. If you have an area you'd like to work on, throw it out there and I'm sure at least one other person in the group will be able to relate, and may even have some helpful info or fun tricks. It's all about community. Yesterday was the first time I ever started a little health project and actually felt excited and happy to have people to share it with. And Randy is my hero du jour because he's brave enough to be honest for those of us who do the very same things but won't fess up (might that be moi??) > I have to agree here. I have been deleting all of the " jump start " posts > because for me the diet mentality is what got me to 300+ lbs. I swore after > surgery I would never, never again " DIET " and that no food would be > forbidden to me....all things in moderation. I never feel deprived and I > never define myself as " good " or " bad " based on what I've eaten that day. > Never, never will go back there....for me, it's a sure path to disaster. > > KC > 3 1/2 yrs post op > Down 160 lbs, and back up 10... > Size 10/12 and happy there > > > Re: Jump Budies > > > Theresa, > The choice for me was not " Eat those things " and > remain the way I was or not eat those things and have > the surgery. > > My goal was to have the surgery, and be able to eat > normally. Which means some sweets, some pop, some of > anything I want. > > There is always a risk I will dump when I eat sweets- > sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. But I take that > chance if not eating a particular sweet will make me > feel so deprived that food becomes an obsession rather > than a friend. > > The more I speak with folks who have had WLS, the more > obvious is becomes that our mental make-up has > everything to do with what makes us feel successful. > > A few very low calorie days seems to be considered a > success by some. To me, its very dangerous because of > the mental harm that can be done. > > Balance for me is the greatest success of all. And, > more often than not, the most difficult thing to > achieve. > > Gayle > 300/160 > Distal RNY > 2 years post-op > > _____________ > > I guess I figure if I wanted to still eat those things > I would have > stayed > the way I was. > > Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG > > Unsubscribe: mailto:Graduate-OSSG-unsubscribe > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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