Hi everyone.
I was banded 5/2/05 by Dr. Billing. My biggest weekness to this day is late night eating. Those snacks that you have a couple bites and a few minutes later a couple more. I tell you I really have to watch myself especially since my band slipped just recently. Not only bringing back the emotional eating habits but the late night habits. Luckily after having all my fluid removed my band went back into place. That was the scariest time for me. What would I do without this wonderful tool that has helped me regain so much of my life. OK back to the late night eating. I found myself snacking more at night than during the day. During the day I always have my bottle of water and never really had those between meal feelings I always had before I was banded. Luckily for me my solution so far has worked and it seems silly to me now. Water. Keeping that water with me all the time. Instead of that small snack drinking more kept me from wanting to go find something to fill myself up. I know it isn't always that easy. I wish it was.
I find myself recently waking up late at night and if there was something around to eat it was getting eaten. I hadn't seen Melanie in a long time. I didn't think I needed to. When I saw her I didn't think about the bad habits I was falling back into. I didn't want to admit that I was falling back into them. I was even a little frustrated that they wanted me to see Melanie before they started refilling my band. Thank God they did. My wake up call. It made me go back and reflect on the things I was starting to do and try to fix it. I thought I had everything under control. The support of this team goes beyond any I've seen. I have so much I want to say and am running out of time at the moment. I will be back to finish my thoughts.
I hope everyone is doing well.
Happy Holidays,
Nicole