I want to eat :(
Smells trigger insulin, and therefore cravings, even if we do not eat. It can be hard, but it will get better.
I follow a ketogenic diet post-op. I also have a diagnosis of binge eating disorder. Feel free to ask me about either!
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much...the life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. -- Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
on 7/18/15 8:10 pm
This effect of surgery and recovery -- that you want to eat and can't -- is possibly the hardest thing to get through, worse than the pain and discomfort from the surgery itself.
It may take a while -- 3 months for me -- but you'll come to look at the portions most people eat and wonder how people can eat so much food at one time. When that happens, your new way of eating will smooth out and feel wonderful.
psychoticparrot
"Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away."
I totally understand. I'm 2 weeks post-op tomorrow and moving from liquid to puréed on Monday and being single I had been okay for the first two weeks as my mom (who was helping me post-surgery) wasn't having elaborate sit down meals but this weekend I spent last night and today with my sister's family and their seven kids (seriously blended family- steps, halfs, etc) and they had every meal sit down. The worst was walking in with my 16 year old niece last night to dinner (we were running late). Bathe whole house smelled of it. They were having protein, broccoli and salad (a healthy meal) but it smelled so good and was killer BUT it's a comfort knowing it's only for a few more weeks and then we can eat with our families-- just not as much. I'm at least blessed that most of my family eats pretty healthy anyway. It is really nice though to not have food at the center of my thoughts all the time now. If it hadn't been right in front of me, it wouldn't have even been a thought. Hang in there!! You'll make it!
