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08-20-2007, 10:52 PM
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not food but a new addiction anyone?
I was wondering if anyone who has had GB has left the addiction of food and now has new addictions?
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08-21-2007, 10:06 AM
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Location: Oceanside, CA |
Surgeon: Dr. Potts |
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My ex became an alcoholic.
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08-21-2007, 12:28 PM
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Location: Lincoln, Illinois |
Surgeon: Dr. John Alverdy of University Hospital of Chicago Il. |
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This Is True
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Originally Posted by fat no more
I was wondering if anyone who has had GB has left the addiction of food and now has new addictions?
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I have found that I spend tons of money in the discount stores, and consignment shops... why?? maybe because it is so much easier to shop for myself now and I can't stop, it is like a compulsive shopper lol
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Lady Susie~Q
Lap RNY April~21~2005
09~30~2003...Dr. Phil Rossi's Referal to Insurance
04~21~2005...260lbs BMI49.9
08~01~2005... One~Der~Land
09~27~2005 Century Club...160
04~21~2006...135 BMI 25.5
04~21~2007...110 BMI 20.1
130 personal Goal ~below goal
140 Dr. Phil Rossi's Goal
06~19~07...first plastics apointment
TT Gym Rat Member #47
Groovey Bear
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08-21-2007, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007 |
Surgeon: Alan Newhoff, Phoenix, AZ |
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Nicotine. Quit it for six years, started again, quit for surgery, started for a year, quit on the gum, quit the gum, stayed quit for 4 years and started smoking again a year ago. Now I'm "weaned" to the gum again.
Don't know if I'd blame the surgery, I was addicted before.
Maybe sex too? (according to my boyfriend, but I disagree. it's just better now.)
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October, 2002 - Dr. Alan Newhoff
Height: 5'8"
High: 300
Now: 133
Dr. Goal: 145
My "happy weight" 140-145
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08-21-2007, 03:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005 |
Location: Texas |
Age: 48 |
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My name is Lisa, and I am addicted to TT
My addiction, fortunately, is Thinner Times. I'm on here easily a half dozen times a day, every day. The good part is, it's sugar-free, fat-free, and doesn't make me dump!
Does make me think, though... 
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Lisa M
Lap RNY - 9/26/05
surgery/ lowest/ goal
Weight: 303/ 137/ 150
BMI: 56/ 25.1/ 27.4
Now in maintenance stage, with desired weight range: 150-153 pounds
Current weight: 139 Updated 10/21/08
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." Harvey Fierstein
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gina in NY
Doesn't matter what you can eat, just matters what you do eat.
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08-21-2007, 03:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2005 |
Location: Ohio |
Age: 44 |
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I do still have a major food addiction.........but I also and kind of fond of shopping and warm beverages. I don't think they are as strong as the food one, so have not actually replaced it.
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Marty
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts--Winston Churchill
Lap RNY 9-7-05
Dr. Ben-Meir
Cleveland Center for Bariatric Surgery
235/135/135
pre/now/goal
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08-21-2007, 03:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004 |
Surgeon: Dr. Charles Callery- my hero |
Age: 37 |
Posts: 5,511 |
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Addictions....Starbucks....but cracking down big time.
I am addicted to finding clothes because I can wear them now!! I love finding the cheap deals. I am so happy I don't have to pay $50 for a pair of jeans just so they will fit.
Hi Marty!!! Love you 
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Blueyz 
Open 7/14/04 w/Dr. Callery 4 years out
239/ 103/125 below Goal fluctuating between 108-115
BMI 18.8~Dr. C is ok with my weight...yeah
Official Scale Whore # 27 (Recovered..I threw mine out!!)
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08-21-2007, 08:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005 |
Location: Lincoln, Illinois |
Surgeon: Dr. John Alverdy of University Hospital of Chicago Il. |
Age: 39 |
Posts: 1,207 |
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ohhh I know
truck Stop Coffee..... Mmmmm Dixie Trucks Stop Has The Best Coffee Ever.....
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Lady Susie~Q
Lap RNY April~21~2005
09~30~2003...Dr. Phil Rossi's Referal to Insurance
04~21~2005...260lbs BMI49.9
08~01~2005... One~Der~Land
09~27~2005 Century Club...160
04~21~2006...135 BMI 25.5
04~21~2007...110 BMI 20.1
130 personal Goal ~below goal
140 Dr. Phil Rossi's Goal
06~19~07...first plastics apointment
TT Gym Rat Member #47
Groovey Bear
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08-21-2007, 09:38 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 |
Location: Cali Coast |
Surgeon: Dr. Callery |
Posts: 2,044 |
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I have found many people go through a stage some where between 9 months and 2 years where they begin searching for a way to fill a void that losing the weight did not fill.
Successful GBs patients hook up into support groups and firums such as this and discuss the feelings and there by pass the need to substitute one addisction for another.
Others who find that their troubles are not addressed in these arenas seek out proffesional counseling. This has proven to be of great benifit and helps most people.
Then there are those who can not find the answers to these complex emotions and redirect the feelings into a numbing resolution od addiction.
Not to worry because all can be solved one way or another!!
We are a great support here, and this is a start!!
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 Rain
12-27-04 Dr. Callery (Open RNY)
296 before pre-op
285/170/155 5'7"1/2
PRE-OP/CURRENT/GOAL???
Hernia Repair/ Abdominalplasty/ Partial Body Lift 3-13-06
Contouring lower back 5-30-08
my amazing plasic surgeon......tell him Rain sent you...lol
http://www.bolithomd.com/
A.K.A. HAMPTON5555
"Where you are matters more, if you remember where you've been."
" It's the journey, not the destination!!!"
http://www.myspace.com/afterthefat
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08-24-2007, 02:06 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 |
Location: Jersey, Channel Islands |
Age: 46 |
Posts: 196 |
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La Perla underwear and great shoes! Friends tell me a drug addiction would probably be cheaper...lol
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Jules
surgery 28th Jan 2006.
Pre-op 238
Goal 135
Current 124
Original BMI 42
Current BMI 22.3
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