Support

Last night was the monthly support group meeting sponsored by my surgeons office for their weight-loss surgery patients here in the Salt Lake City area. As I had my surgery the same day as the March meeting, this was the first I had attended since before the operation. Dr. M. spoke to us about hunger - true physical hunger and psychological hunger, and how to tell the difference. To a naturally thin person who has never had to think about this, it may be a difficult idea to grasp that someone else may not be able to tell the difference between being really hungry and just feeling that you need to eat. But those of us who were there really get it; and as I get further out from my surgery date and begin feeling the hunger that I still don't feel this soon after surgery, it will be vital for me to know and understand the difference. Two new people were in attendance at our group last night, both of whom had weight loss surgery several years ago, maintained their amazing weight loss for awhile, and then fell into the "eating because of psychological hunger" trap and had begun gaining weight again. I am studying and learning as much as I can now, as well as getting all the positive feedback I can. I will make this work - I risked my life to do it, and I'm not going to mess it up!