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Self Realization? July, 16th 2008
I am in limbo about the head and body thing. This surgery took my hunger away and now food is not an issue. Is being overweight a mental issue for everyone? Could it be what I have thought my whole life, that I experienced greater hunger then most people? Is it possible that I could just not physically satiate myself? I am pondering these ideas. I think it may be different for everyone. Only time will tell. I am staying in touch with my feelings and thoughts. I just know that now that I am not hungry for the past 3 months I do not miss food or anything like that in fact I feel like I have been let out of food prison, like now I don't think of food all day every day and I can have my mind on so many other things. Most of my thoughts pre surgery was about food. No matter what event, it was always attached to what I could eat there. Hot DAMN I am glad that is gone. I never want to live like that again. RNY has changed my entire world by expanding everything else that exsisted and putting food on the shelf where it belonged. Gina : ) 2 Comment(s)
Comment by suetomimati on Aug 14, 2008 at 03:32pm
Hi Gina. I agree with this post so much. I also feel like I was in prison before having my RNY. I don't think anyone could ever understand what it is like to constantly have food running your life unless they have experienced it themselves. I was reading my blog from before surgery and it seems that every other sentence had to do with food, hunger or starvation. It wasn't until after my surgery that I was able to feel normal. ((((((((((((((((((((
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I, like everyone, always thought of Thanksgiving as the big holiday you celebrate with food. Then the whole Thanksgiving-thru-Ch
And, of course, every birthday, anniversary and father’s day required a feast of some sort. I’m sure I knew this all along, but it didn’t really become clear until I realized that before every event, my wife would ask, “Where do you want to go for dinner on _____?” And, of course, I always had a well considered answer.
My most recent lesson-learned in this area came after WLS on 7/14. Surgery was on Monday and I found that I was sad on Friday night when I realized I couldn’t do my usual huge Friday dinner of rare red meat. That’s when the light came on. I celebrated everything in my life with a meal. I celebrated every Friday with a big steak dinner … every Saturday morning with a big breakfast. Saturday night I would celebrate with some high calorie food like burgers and fries or Mexican food that I typically didn’t eat during the week.. On Sunday we had an extra big meal just because that’s what you do on Sunday. And finally, during the week, the end of every day was celebrated with dinner which, even if it was something healthy, I’d eat way too much of it.
How about that? Each and every time I made it through a day, I took great pains to reward myself with food.