Addicted much?

I have a MAJOR food addiction. It hit me when 6 days post-op I found myself sucking on popcorn and spitting it out. I never realized how much I associate food with love, comfort, and carino (as we say in Spanish). Any emotional hiccup in my life I would turn to food. The sad thing is I passed this on to my kids. But I also realized it was passed on to me from my parents as well. Whenever I would be upset I would take my kids out to eat. Literally spend hundreds on take out. Now it is physically impossible for me to stuff myself like before but the urge to reward my kids with food remains.

So far since my surgery my family has taken my kids out to eat multiple times to reward them and I just sit back and watch. Thinking to myself....this is wrong. My kids eating this much junk is wrong. But , God willing, this will now change.

I couldn't control my nafs, Arabic for desires, with food so this sleeve is meant to PHYSICALLY stop me. It hope it's positive effects will ripple through my family and make a change.