My RANT: Fritos; ok, no pep talks please......

January 11, 2006

A new post-op doing a bag of Fritos? Ok, how about this?

MOST post-WLS patients do not lose enough weight to get to a " normal "

weight. They usually settle at a weight in the " overweight " range.

All WLS patients have problems with overeating.

After 5 years, most WLS patients have gained or have started to gain

back their weight.

What have we learned?

The Pouch is just a tool. It helps us stop eating sooner, it helps us

eat less food. BUT we still have bad food habits. That's right, I said

BAD. I AM judgemental, because those food habits got me up to 300

pounds and I don't think anyone else here is any different.

Surgery helps us lose weight, usually in dramatic amounts. This gives

us the illusion that we will be able to eat whatever, whenever, nibble

nibble a cracker here a Frito there. Or, hey, a bag of 'em won't

matter just this once.

But if we don't learn different habits, guess what? The fat returns.

Some people gain it all back; some don't. The point is, surgery isn't

a miracle. There are no miracles. We have to stop lying to ourselves.

Normal-weight people (NWP's) don't eat bags of Fritos. NWP's don't go

into bakeries every day, or get Vente triple-caramel vanilla

whipped-cream lattes every day on top of breakfast, snack, lunch,

snack, dinner, snack, and bedtime snack.

Beating yourself up and feeling bad is amusing, fun, makes you feel

like you're going to do differently next time. Forget it, it doesn't

mean s--t, and anyone who's fooled by that " I hate myself " chant is an

enabler. If you're really broken down by what you've done you'll change.

Martha

>

> >

> > this afternoon, while studying for the CSET (test to be a

> teacher), I

> > couldn't stop..... I went in the kitchen and got one FRITO (king

> size)

> > and sucked it to smithereens (and swallowed it!)!! As you know I'm

> > still on clear liquids for another week, and then full liquids for

> two

> > weeks (I'll be one week out tomorrow). Don't give me any of

> those " get

> > back on the wagon speaches!...

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