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<blockquote data-quote="Kentoldlady1" data-source="post: 1675568" data-attributes="member: 414280"><p>May I ask a question? This is just a question and by no means any sort of comment on problems etc.</p><p></p><p>I was heading towards morbidly obese at over 16st. Have lost weight now but I am a realistic comfort eater who uses fear of t2d complications to keep my weight down and to stop eating carbs. However, I know I am only one crisis from eating everything in sight. One day at a time. But I have seriously considered this type of surgery in the past. </p><p></p><p>For me, I know that I very much over eat. I could start in the morning and not stop until bed. At my worst, when metabolic syndrome had really set in I would get up in the middle of the night and eat then as well. It took a scare to make me face this, but I know that I could easily slip back.</p><p></p><p>My question is if you know what you will be allowed to eat after surgery why not just eat that way now? </p><p></p><p>The main reason that I didn't go down the surgery route was that I KNOW I comfort eat. What would I do instead? I have not conquered that at all. Its just that the fear of going blind and losing my feet is greater than my need to comfort eat. At the moment, but that might change.</p><p></p><p>If the pre-op counselling is good does it tackle the problem of your over eating ? If it doesn't then surely the problems will remain after surgery. If it does tackle over eating then why not use the strategy now?</p><p></p><p>As I said, not wanting to argue etc, but would really like to know what it is about the surgery that helps so much? Is it the food restriction that means you physically have to stop over eating? Or because it means that you just have to keep to a very strict diet which would have been impossible for you before?</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kentoldlady1, post: 1675568, member: 414280"] May I ask a question? This is just a question and by no means any sort of comment on problems etc. I was heading towards morbidly obese at over 16st. Have lost weight now but I am a realistic comfort eater who uses fear of t2d complications to keep my weight down and to stop eating carbs. However, I know I am only one crisis from eating everything in sight. One day at a time. But I have seriously considered this type of surgery in the past. For me, I know that I very much over eat. I could start in the morning and not stop until bed. At my worst, when metabolic syndrome had really set in I would get up in the middle of the night and eat then as well. It took a scare to make me face this, but I know that I could easily slip back. My question is if you know what you will be allowed to eat after surgery why not just eat that way now? The main reason that I didn't go down the surgery route was that I KNOW I comfort eat. What would I do instead? I have not conquered that at all. Its just that the fear of going blind and losing my feet is greater than my need to comfort eat. At the moment, but that might change. If the pre-op counselling is good does it tackle the problem of your over eating ? If it doesn't then surely the problems will remain after surgery. If it does tackle over eating then why not use the strategy now? As I said, not wanting to argue etc, but would really like to know what it is about the surgery that helps so much? Is it the food restriction that means you physically have to stop over eating? Or because it means that you just have to keep to a very strict diet which would have been impossible for you before? Thanks for the help. [/QUOTE]
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