Emotionally drained today and missing food

So this is a warning...I am very sad today.

I am on day 10 after surgery and am really hungry and mourning the loss of my fun Saturday routine.  I usually am up early for garage sales...love em, but it is raining here, then I go to this little dive of a place for the BEST breakfast you'd ever eat.  And of course we know why that won't happen...

I cannot believe I still have four days before I can eat anything.  I was hoping that the surgery would curb some of my hunger pains...not so much now.  I feel so bad for my family because I am really down today, and I feel very tired too, probably from lack of nourishment.  They don't know what to do for me, and I don't think at this point there is anything they can do.  Anyway, just wanted to vent a little and get my mind on something else for awhile.  Thanks!(this is how I feel today)

I explained it to my family like this..My WLS is probably a lot like a drug addict who desperately wants to be free.  The person prays every day to be set free and dreams of not being controlled by their addiction.  Finally they decide to go to rehab.  They want it more than anything.  They get in rehab and door closes and locks behind them.  Suddenly.....that desire to be free diminishes and the addiciton desire is back and begging for just one more fix.

That is how I felt anyway for the first few weeks.  I just explained to friends and family not to worry when I was down or depressed because I was just in rehab.  After a few weeks, I began to love my new life.

Hugs. This will pass.

There is no doubt overeating is an addiction, and our addiction is the hardest to beat. You can't go without food forever like you can with alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc. That is why this group is so important -- to support and encourage each other. Vent away as we have all been there and we all return to that spot from time to time as well.

Amy is very wise and it's a good way to look at it.  We were all addicts and it's hard to come down from that.

I can promise you that life gets immensely better once you get mushies!  You start to feel like a "normal" person again when you can eat something.  All you can really do right now is hang in there and know there are better days ahead.

And you are allowed to feel down.  It's a mourning period of sorts because you can't turn to your old friend, food.  You will be able to go to the yummy breakfast restaurant again and you will enjoy it.  Breakfast food is good for you because it has lots of protein.

Chin up girlfriend!  This too shall pass and you will be healthier and have a smokin' bod too!

Thanks so much for the replies...and yes I do relate this to an alcohol or drug addiction.  You worded it perfectly...Thank You!!

Alot of it is probably because of the weather too. Hang in there, you will feel better when you can have soft food. If I can make it during the Christmas season, you can too. It's all going to be okay.

I know exactly how you feel, we all do.  I will be 4 wks out on Mon. I thought that the first 2 weeks on liquids would be easy, but not for me.  I had heard so many people say that their food hunger was gone after surgery, well I was hoping that would be me, but it wasn't.  days 5-10 were the hardest because I mourned the thing that gave me comfort, I couldn't seek comfort in the food anymore, and that made me extremely sad, I cried alot about it, you see I didn't even realize that i was using food for comfort until i couldn't have it.  Being on liquids for 2 weeks made me extremely weak, When I felt like I couldn't go on I would drink a little Atkins Advantage (the chocolate is really good) I couldn't drink very much at a time because it is pretty thick, but it did help with the weakness, it gave me a little bit of renewed energy, also at the begining of week 3 when I could finally eat, I thought I could eat alot well that wasn't the case, very little is all I could do and really I didn't have an appetite, for anything, I did find out that beans have been a real friend to my tiny tummy now. Even though the first several weeks were pure Hell, for me anyway and a couple of times I had wondered why I had done this. When you can eat a little you will start to feel better, and things will look better. All of us that have had WLS have been there, We know how it hrts physically and emotionally, the physical hurt goes away but sometimes it can take a while to get everything undercontrol emotionally. This is a total life change, and sometimes we really truely don't understand what we have done until after it is done.  I have faith in all of us that all of this makes us stronger as a person.  Hang in there I will say a prayer for you today.

Can't wait for you to taste those eggs when you can eat them...I don't even like eggs and they were heaven!!!

i had the same problem but i think my hunger was more in my head than in my belly. get up and get busy doing something that you enjoy to take your mind off if it. it will get better when you get to eat something because then you do feel normal but be careful and take it slow!

I was / am a big emotional eater , but each time i come through an emotional time without stuffing my face and i consider it a little victory and it does get easier but i dont know if it will ever go away , old habits die hard but with each day it gets easier , but i still struggle sometimes .