Clearing Food From The Mind

Light at Last - a blog about weight loss

Dorothy Rodwell, LMFT

November 20, 2015

Food dreams in my mind

Just don’t happen anymore

I am Light at Last

After living with The Virtual Gastric Band since September, I am glad to report on what has happened to my mind and my body.

Prior to The Virtual Gastric Band I was thinking about food a lot.  In fact, I was using self hypnosis and journaling what I was eating and trying all kinds of ideas in order to watch the weight go down.  Yes, I had done it before with good results that lasted 12 years until the pounds began to creep upward.  I had set up a warning system of when to get the weight down as I resolved never to go back to my highest weight again.  Hooray for that decision as it led me to find a way to get what I wanted!

Each day I thought about food a lot and of course, that just reinforced its hold over me.  Amazing how that goes.  The complexity of the issue left me down and feeling heavy.  I longed for clarity and lightness: thus was born Light at Last.  

With The Virtual Gastric Band I eat to live and not live to eat. After following the program for over 28 days the new habits are in place.  I don’t think about what I will eat ahead of time as I eat whatever I want all the time.  What others folks are doing around me or saying while eating is just something to be noticed and requires no response from me.  My enjoyment continues and when I am comfortably full I stop.  It’s great for me to decide portion size instead of someone else.

I’m free!

A Breakthrough - Virtual Gastric Band

Light at Last - a blog about weight loss

Dorothy Rodwell, LMFT

November 1, 2015

A sense of fullness

Happens quickly with each meal

Making change easy

As I have been working with the LIGHT system of permanent weight loss, I have been reading many resources and discovered one that I want to include here now.  While in the UK this year I was introduced to the Virtual Gastric Band procedure and how it shifts relationships with food.

This type of program has been in existence for years and is a variation of the laparoscopic gastric banding used for weight loss.  This medical procedure has a surgeon putting a band around the upper part of the stomach so that the amount of food that a person eats is reduced as he/she feels full after just a small amount of food.  The prep for this surgery includes reduction in food intake.  Psychologists  wondered that if people could reduce their food intake before the surgery why couldn’t they do the same thing and not have the physical surgery but a mental surgery instead.  And what they discovered is that yes, many folks can do just that.

On September 9, 2015 I had my Virtual Gastric Band operation and am very happy with the results.  In fact, I am already passing along what I have learned to others who are also enjoying a new found sense of control over what they eat, how and where they eat it.

What I have noticed is that although we may not want to be forced to give up food, when we choose to eat intelligently realizing that we are not a garbage can for excess food anymore, we can stick to our plan until it becomes our new norm.