Last meals syndrome

so right now im waiting for  my final wiegh in on june 23rd to complete my 6 month preop requirement. Which is really great..been mainting my weight so far through the process.. getting exercise. The problem is right now i have last meal syndrome. All i can think about is all of the sweets.. and greasy goodies that i can get my hands on. Its ridiculous. I think the problem is that i have this mind state that once i go thru surgery all these types of foods r off limits..so get it while u can.

Anyone have any suggestions about how to fight off head hunger..and the best ways to stay on track. as a preop?

Hey..neighbor lol

We all have felt the way you do.  The funny thing is I am still able to enjoy the foods I love now just mortified.  I still crave and have urges to pig out but believe it or not I am very satisfied with how everything has changed.  Th only real advice I can give is to remember that you want to be as healthy as possible getting up on that table...start the transition now so that it's not as hard later.  

I think the hardest part for me was the first three weeks coming home and smelling all the food I could not have BUT  I adjusted and made it work for me ...anyway...   Congrats and Good luck !!!

Oh yeah I know what you mean.  Three times during my pre op diet I went out and bought something I don't normally eat just for a last taste.  When I read the package and saw the fat and calories and carbs in a 430 cal slice of factory made pound cake I let it go after a few bites. 

I'd already got my last tastes in slowly over the months and my head hunger/ near binges were thwarted by reading packages.  What a reality check. 

I wanted 'stuff' (and still do) but its not worth it.  Next year this time I'll be able to occaisionally have some of what I've given up and you will too.  Its worth waiting a year. 

I read the post of a DS poster who gushed over eating 2500-3000 calories a day while loosing weight and feeling sorry for the rest of us WLS people and our restricted diets.  I feel sorry for her (or him?).  Thats not the relationship I want with food.  Struggling through the head hunger is a ***** but we will get through it.    Its part of our new and improved relationship with our bodies and with food. 

You hit the nail on the head - its a mental thing.  The way I dealt with it was to think of my pre-op time as the beginning of my new life.  Thats one reason why I don't diferentiate on my ticker the weight I lost pre-surgery from my post-surgery weight loss. [the other reason is I can't figure out how to get that dang signature line to work for me LOL]  Seriously though, for me, this process started the Monday before Thanksgiving when I realized I was gonna last supper myself into some serious weight gain over the holidays if I didn't slow up and I decided to go on a diet - I didn't have a 6 month pre-op requirement for my insurance.  On that date, I decided was the first day of the rest of my life.  My actual surgery didn't happen until the following March.

Food tastes do change after surgery and some of the things you want now, you won't want later - and yeah, some of it you will always want but shouldn't have.  I'm not that far out but I know from others a couple of years out - these are sucessful folk keeping the weight off - they can have what they want in small amounts or modified like the previous poster said. 

Best wishes,

Rhonda

I did not have to do the pre-op six months diet but I can tell you it is all about attitude.  The things I loved so much as a pre-op did not bother me after WLS.  Being thin is worth more than any food cravings.  You have worked so hard to get where you are and remember absolutely nothing is worth sabotaging it.  My thoughts and prayers are with you.  Hang in there. You can do it!!