Do you ever miss...(instert quantity here)!

oh, you kids and your hooch :)

Hey....at least we know the smiley's are having a good time!!!!!!  .........BTW...Sheila...this one is for you!!! 

Joe,  I understand what you are saying, sometimes I miss eating at the big cover dish lunches at the office trying all the recipies etc.... but then as I watch others eat , I always get a glad feeling that I can not.  Hot dogs are one of my favorite foods, I sometimes get one at lunch cut it in half and give the one half to my co worker and I eat the other half and I get the same feeling of having 3 in the old days. I have found if I try to eat just half sometimes I push my chances and boy o boy one bite too much , and it comes back to haunt me.  I think it does get easier over time, hang in there . Allison

I do feel that way sometimes... like I just want to stuff myself silly... Before I never felt satisified when I ate so I would just keep eating more more and more...  now I do get satisified when I eat, which I somtimes forget.  I think its very normal... for 27 years of my life I could pig out... and only for the past year has that changed... easy to forget!!!  One "trick" I sometimes use... I will cut stuff up so it looks like a lot... I make homemade pizza and will take 1/4th of the pizza and cut into 3 slices... for a normal person it would be 1 slice... for whatever reason eating 2 or 3 of the slices satisifies that part of me that always wanted quantity... sometimes if I ate just the one big slice I would still think I want more because I "only ate 1 slice".

I miss salami and provolone heroes.....and philly cheesesteaks from Andy's...but I'm not having any issues with it or anything, thin feels better then they taste...just reminiscing...

I absolutely relate!  Pre-op I actually went to a Chinese buffet so that I could eat all I want, because I was afraid I would miss *volume*.  (I couldn't eat that much then, it was kind of funny!)  But yeah, the ability to eat to oblivion if I want is now no longer an option.  And thinking about it kind of catches me up side the head!  Interesting, isn't it?  I haven't had any real emotional issues post op with the eating (or lack thereof) but I am finding it interesting to see what twists and turns my mind takes thru this journey!

Yup I miss it sometimes.  I used to eat McDonald's Sausage Egg McMuffins three at a time.  I even went there once, POST-OP!, and got two.  I don't know what I was thinking, the dog got a whole one and half of the other plus most of the Muffin from the half I did eat.  Made me feel like heck too it has too much fat.  I still miss it occasionally, it was my comfort food.  I have learned to seek other means of comfort instead of my old friend, food.  For me that can be prayer, singing around the house (if no one's home), going for a walk with the dog, reading, etc.  It still rears it's ugly head sometimes.  I hope eventually it goes away though. Take care. Ellen