RE: post op eating and head stuff

[Guest guest]

wrote:

" The surgery removes the ability to eat the quantity of food needed to

maintain our current Obesity. However, it can not and will not fix our " head "

and therefore the desire to eat. I think however the desire to eat is

greatly reduced. For some of us though, I think it would be beneficial to

continue with a recovery program via the 12 steps to help the compulsion. "

On the contrary , the surgery has not removed my ability to eat

the quantity of food I did pre-op. In fact I have to eat much more and

more frequently than I ever did in the old days. Yes, there was severe

restrictions in those first few months, but for me at least, the " head " stuff

just was not a problem. I got to eat all I could hold of any high protein

food I wanted whenever I wanted it. I could eat til my gut ached, which

was only about 2 tablespoons full in that first month. My long

standing problems with compulsive eating and bulimia were and are just

gone. Can't really explain, but the desire to eat and the feelings

associated with eating are so radically different. Perhaps the 9 years of

therapy preceding being switched have made my story somewhat different, but the

other long-term post DS folks I know report much the same thing. Go to a

12 step program if it provides comfort, but my experience has been that when the

weight went the head stuff went too.

Deborah

BPD/DS

09/27/97

BMI 54

307 lbs

Current Bmi 25

149 lbs