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<blockquote data-quote="Janice2209" data-source="post: 642854" data-attributes="member: 128605"><p>So sorry to have not replied. I didn't realise there were any as the e-mail notifications had stopped.</p><p></p><p>Loobles, thank you so much for your full and honest response. </p><p></p><p>I don't think I have a full blown eating disorder (EDNOS, Bulimia, etc), but I do think I have an unhealthy relationship with food and I use it too much to fix emotional issues rather than other coping strategies. I'm not talking about bingeing on chocolate and we don't eat takeaways - just eating too much.</p><p></p><p>I show the classic pattern throughout life of weight gain, diet and successful weight loss, something knocks me off the diet, re-gain all the weight I lost plus more again. I had got to the stage of being afraid to try to lose weight because if I was successful then in a year's time I would be back at square one plus extra.</p><p></p><p>I am also a swimmer but I haven't swum regularly now for a couple of years. I was told to stop swimming by a nurse because I had athletes foot and that took a couple of months to clear up and by that time I was roundly told off by another nurse for putting some weight on (honestly she treated my like a 12 year old) and I just have found it very difficult to go back to it. I now have to shower before I dress in a morning as I am so heavy I can't reach to clean myself properly and I'm embarrassed in the changing rooms. (Private club but not private showers and I don't fit in the two private changing rooms there are). Stupid excuses I know, I enjoy swimming and I need to find a way to re-motivate myself.</p><p></p><p>I can't walk very far (which is another exercise I enjoyed) as I suffered a dislocated, compound fracture of my ankle which ended up with infection in the bone. It took 3 and a half years to sort out the infection and now I have a deformed joint that means I can only walk a very short distance. Being unable to walk far causes weight gain which makes it even more difficult to walk. Vicious circle.</p><p></p><p>I will probably go ahead with the surgery. It may be that I can have the surgery followed by a CBT course of some kind or need the CBT course first. I certainly feel the need to talk things through. Assuming I do go through with it I want it to be successful.</p><p></p><p>I also had the shock of my GP making the suggestion and it allowed me to try to lose weight again and I successfully lost 7kg in about 8 weeks. I've since put 2kg of those back on. I am now pretty certain that I can't lose all the weight I need to without the surgery. My focus now is to make the surgery as safe as possible (so swimming to strengthen my heart and reduce my blood pressure; as well as losing whatever weight I can as well); and then to make it as successful as possible by preparing my food brain and getting the right post operative emotional support in place.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for listening and all your past and future comments. Loobles, I'll look for your other thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janice2209, post: 642854, member: 128605"] So sorry to have not replied. I didn't realise there were any as the e-mail notifications had stopped. Loobles, thank you so much for your full and honest response. I don't think I have a full blown eating disorder (EDNOS, Bulimia, etc), but I do think I have an unhealthy relationship with food and I use it too much to fix emotional issues rather than other coping strategies. I'm not talking about bingeing on chocolate and we don't eat takeaways - just eating too much. I show the classic pattern throughout life of weight gain, diet and successful weight loss, something knocks me off the diet, re-gain all the weight I lost plus more again. I had got to the stage of being afraid to try to lose weight because if I was successful then in a year's time I would be back at square one plus extra. I am also a swimmer but I haven't swum regularly now for a couple of years. I was told to stop swimming by a nurse because I had athletes foot and that took a couple of months to clear up and by that time I was roundly told off by another nurse for putting some weight on (honestly she treated my like a 12 year old) and I just have found it very difficult to go back to it. I now have to shower before I dress in a morning as I am so heavy I can't reach to clean myself properly and I'm embarrassed in the changing rooms. (Private club but not private showers and I don't fit in the two private changing rooms there are). Stupid excuses I know, I enjoy swimming and I need to find a way to re-motivate myself. I can't walk very far (which is another exercise I enjoyed) as I suffered a dislocated, compound fracture of my ankle which ended up with infection in the bone. It took 3 and a half years to sort out the infection and now I have a deformed joint that means I can only walk a very short distance. Being unable to walk far causes weight gain which makes it even more difficult to walk. Vicious circle. I will probably go ahead with the surgery. It may be that I can have the surgery followed by a CBT course of some kind or need the CBT course first. I certainly feel the need to talk things through. Assuming I do go through with it I want it to be successful. I also had the shock of my GP making the suggestion and it allowed me to try to lose weight again and I successfully lost 7kg in about 8 weeks. I've since put 2kg of those back on. I am now pretty certain that I can't lose all the weight I need to without the surgery. My focus now is to make the surgery as safe as possible (so swimming to strengthen my heart and reduce my blood pressure; as well as losing whatever weight I can as well); and then to make it as successful as possible by preparing my food brain and getting the right post operative emotional support in place. Thank you for listening and all your past and future comments. Loobles, I'll look for your other thread. [/QUOTE]
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