What is your relationship with food and has it changed?

I know that my relationship with food was very different pre-op and even in the post op period when I was losing weight than it is now. Pre-op, I really used food to deal with anger, frustration, loneliness, and celebrations. While I was losing weight post op, I had more of an idealist, almost adolescent relationship with food, meaning that things seemed to be good or bad, right or wrong, without much gray area. Now that I'm 3 yrs post op, I find that I seemed to have found a generally healthy balance. I don't deny myself any type of food, but I now have an awareness of the value of what I'm eating and do a much better job of maintaining a balance that helps me maintain my weight. I think that balance is what I was missing pre-op and to an extent, but necessarily so for the first year post op. 

So no matter where you are in your journey, have you looked at your relationship with food? If so, has it changed at all and how?

I figured that your post ought be able to have at least ONE response. 


My relationship with food has changed quite a bit.  I don't shy away from it or feel that it is the enemy, I just don't lean to it for comfort as much.  Food is still a big part of how we engage with each other but I think that my RNY has changed that for not only myself but my family too.  Being that I can eat that much of it...I don't find that the hype of cooking and eating is at its normal high for anyone in the house.  If I play down it's importance....then they do also.  When I'm into it...then so is everyone else.  I think more about how I used to think that I would find such satisfaction in eating something fatty or full of sugar only to be disappointed....I've stopped looking for food to give me that high or that feeling of euphoria that it once did.  Now, food is just a necessary part of the day.  If it's good then, hey, it's good.  But I'm no longer chasing after that moment of bliss when you eat your favorite dish.  I hope this lasts forever.