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[quote=Anonymous]Please, please, please don't do bariatric surgery when your main issue with food is emotional.  I have SO many friends who have had surgery, lost huge amounts, and gained it all back and more because emotional eaters can easily eat through the limitations on a surgically modified digestive system.  And now they have issues with malabsorption of nutrients and other side effects.

I am a HUGE emotional eater self-medicating a lot of childhood trauma, and believe it or not, what has worked for me is intermittent fasting.  Google Dr. Jason Fung and The Obesity Code.  I had been 100+ pounds overweight for 20 years and thought that I would just be resigned to that because I was not willing to get surgery (and have all the ill health effects plus rush regaining it all.) I am shocked and delighted that I have lost so much now that I understand how I got fat in the first place.

Therapy is absolutely essential, and you may find some help with support groups like OA.  But you might get huge success just changing *when* you eat, and if you're like me, it might lead to later changing what you eat as well.  Even with occasional emotional binges, I still lost a substantial amount of weight in the last year, going from the "morbidly obese" category to just obese, but just two columns on the BMI chart away from "overweight".  And still moving.  :) Youvcan do it!!![/quote]

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