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porkchop · 12-07-2008, 03:08 PM

Well I am in the group with Deb. I can eat almost anything

without any problem. I have dumped on certain things (chicken if it is dry, bread if not toasted, tried sm amt of ice cream on Thanksgiving) I now at over 7 months out don't seem to get that full feeling I used to. Weight loss has stopped since Thanksgiving. I have taken up water aerobics and hope that will start helping with the stall. I am not really complaining I am happy to have lost 90 lbs so far but kinda wouldn't mind only eating a couple bites and feeling full. I can eat a full cup of food with no problem (maybe I broke my pouch) I usually only eat 2 meals a day lunch and dinner the thought of eating breakfast makes me ill. Kim I hope things work out for you I think we all have lots of issues with food good and bad. I just wish I had that feeling like the first three months.

KyMama56 · 12-07-2008, 04:31 PM

Kim..... my DH and I were sitting here discussing this exact subject just before I decided to get on here and found your post. Weird? I don't think so. I think we have all been through this and thought we were the only ones. I use to go to bed thinking what I would have for breakfast and get up thinking about what I would fix for dinner. Food was a constant on my mind. I'd watch the "Biggest Loser" and eat like they were going to put me on the show next and take all my food. I don't enjoy food ow, but I do enjoy trying on smaller clothes and looking nicer than I have in years. Before GBS I hated getting dressed and going anywhere. Nothing fit right, nothing looked right, and I was miserable. Now I even put makeup on just to go to the grocery store. I think of food the same way I think of my vitamins and iron. It's something I have to put in my body, so until the joy of eating comes back, that is what I will do. Actually, the thought of having a love affair with food again scares the s*** out of me. Hang in there Kim, we are all thinking of you and are just glad that someone spoke up.

staraex · 12-17-2008, 07:02 AM

I'm never hungry or full. and i get reprimanded everyday because I'm not eating enough. I just have no desire to eat. Kind of upsetting...

pummychal · 12-17-2008, 09:13 AM

I went through the same thing for a long time. It's much better now but the food that I am able to enjoy now was not what I enjoyed pre-op. I enjoyed all the comfort food/fattening food and got a real satisfaction out of it. No more. Now it just feels yucky. Now, it's healthier food that satisfies me. Like last night I had a VERY satisfying meal at Applebee's. I had the Weight Watchers steak and portabello with broccoli and roasted potatoes. I only ate half of it and the whole meal is only 330 cal. It was awesome! That so totally satisfied me! Before the broccoli would have been yuck and I would have wanted butter and sour cream on the potatoes. But not now. I LOVED it. I am definately going to have that again sometime. And it told me alot about myself and how I have changed. I used to get depressed because Pizza wouldn't taste and satisfy like it used to. Now I'm happy with.

Momof3 · 12-17-2008, 09:30 AM

my feelings about food change constantly.

I miss those days of not wanting to eat - of just not being hungry. I get really hungry now but nothing ever really satisfies. Well, sometimes it would, or could...but I cant eat it. I take one bite and it has that *ugh* feeling, that pressure in my gut and I'm like "Oh just let me eat a little without getting sick* Something that would satisfy me, make me feel normal.

Then I feel guilty for feeling that way b/c I'm scared I'll ruin everything I've worked so hard for and fall back into those lousy eating habits.

The other day I was so hungry and didnt really have anything to eat in the house but some left over dessert..Well I had a small portion and man did it ever make me sick. I was glad it did b/c it was a kick in the @ss. I just wish that guilt would STICK and I'd not do stupid things like that again.

Then there are times that I eat too much, and too fast, knowing full well I'll have those nasty dry heaves....but I do it anyway.

Then I have times I eat just fine without any problem and I'm like "man I wish this was consistent"

I dont know what the answer is, I think most of my problems are mental - I still have the wrong approach to food, I have to break those nasty food addictions and habits.

I'm seriously considering a liquid diet for a few days to break my beginning dependancy on crap I shouldnt eat...

Sorry for rambling, I know this doesnt make sense but I was trying to just let you know you arent alone in your feelings about food...

Roxy · 12-17-2008, 09:32 AM

Personally I cant WAIT to not be controlled by a hysterically needy appetite. I have my surgery on 9th January and cannot imagine what it must be like to NOT want to eat. I want to eat even when I have eaten lots of things and am relatively full. I wake up in the night and want to eat. And I sure seem to be able to eat more than anyone else.
It will be such a relief not to have my whole day overshadowed by making sure I get nowhere near hungry. It will be interesting to see how I feel post op,but I am mentally preparing myself for food to become simply fuel and not the myriad of things it has become for me during my lifetime. I have been fat since I was about 3 years old and I daren't even DREAM about what it would be like to not have to heave myself out of peoples furniture, refuse lovely days out because I just cannot walk the distance required, cross my legs, tie my shoes, put my own socks on, do my own gardening again, and look in a mirror without shuddering!! Please God, let me be one of those who goes right off food!! I bet any money, I will be the one with the stomach the size of a boiled egg and an appetite the size of a skyscraper....... Roxy

Kimberly76 · 12-17-2008, 09:49 AM

Me being out 3 months, I too have this problem. I do not like to eat, I could go all day untill about 5pm without eating if I let myself, but I need the food for fuel. So I try really hard to eat 3 small meals, and if I fail, it's 2 small meals and one snack. What is really difficult at this stage is dinner time, I'll think that I'm really hungry like before, when I could eat massive amounts of food. Eat, and then get sick, and get sick because my tummy is mad and just says no. I know it's not from eating too fast I had to break that habbit real quick. For instance this is the oddest thing.. One day I will eat and everything will agree with me.. ( I will feel like I ate like a pig) but in reality I didn't, because the next day I will get sick. It's like nearly everything I try that's new, it doesn't like me. I've just learned that it's trial and error for a bit.

I pray things get better for us!

Kimber~

Kimberly76 · 12-17-2008, 10:26 AM

So get this.. just today: This week I started eating Smart Ones by weight watchers, the smaller meals and within 25 minutes or so I can eat one. But like the heavier meals, I can not finish. Just so you have an idea of what's going on.. well today, I had to switch brands to healthy choice, it was on sale, two bites later burp city for five minutes, lunch is cold, took another bite, and I have NO interest in eating it. Thank goodness I have a back up yogut in the fridge for later. I have like perhaps 4 bites in (and that's 4 bites in 25 minutes) and I'm so full I feel like an over stuffed pig. And now I'm wishing I didn't bother eating. And now 7 minutes later, puke city.

Kimber~

Tribeca · 12-25-2008, 06:57 PM

I am there with you. Food and I battle on a daily basis. I can't eat right after I wake up but if I don't I find myself at 3 in the afternoon and not had anything but decaf coffee all day. I still have to force food but I will make myself obey my new pouch.
three months out and still no carbs or raw fruit and veg doesn't make me happy either.