All I want is food...

Help,  my surgery date is 25 November, all I want to do is eat, eat and eat. Please tell me this is normal.  

I'm also worried if all I want to do is eat now what happens after my surgery? 

Will the obsession to eat go away? 

It is normal.  Not eating will be a thousand times easier after surgery.  I promise. 

The only way I made it through my pre-surgery diet was to repeat over and over to myself, "I can do anything for three weeks." 

I am now almost three months out and I have to say that what I learned about eating almost no carbs has come in handy in my post surgery life.  After surgery you are healing and have a whole new slew of sensitivities on top of that.  It's hard to know what to eat.  I think I would have suffered more if I hadn't spent that month before my surgery figuring out no carb stuff.  So, you are paying it forward. 

Congratulations!!  Hopefully the time will fly.  This too shall pass. 

I really hope it is normal, I am less than a month away and feel i have lost total control eating like a ghoul in a graveyard. I feel guilty every bite yet it is like friends begging me not to go. I have been depressed and scared about my monthly appointment and weight in on Tuesday. I know I gained 500 pounds and they are going to lose all respect for me.

See my post....I gained 21.5 lbs between my surgery consult and surgery.  I felt like a loser.  All that went away on the day of my surgery.  Wipe the slate clean, give yourself a break and enjoy your future. 

They won't lose all respect for you.  Or if they do, they are clueless idiots and who cares.

But real bariatric health workers know that other than WLS, medical science has no answer for the obese.  They know diets don't work.  They know there are super absorbers.  They know that a person's body will demand food in such a way that it can only be delayed not detoured. 

If they have any experience, they will have seen many other come through their weigh in's with the same results or worse and then seen those same people after WLS tackle mountains with a smile. 

It seriously annoys me how I used to take all the fat negativity to heart.  Then during my surgery I found out that my short intestine was almost long enough for the record books.   I got the genetic variation that would have allowed me to survive the famines, which could have been very lucky, but in today's abundance, not so much.  With over an extra meter to grab more stuff out of food, of course I got heavy.  As I tried to diet around that, of course my metabolism went wonky.   And with all the extra pressure and disapproval, it isn't surprising at all that I developed a few complexes around it.   How could I not?  Kind of a reverse "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" thing. 

So hang in there.  WLS is a huge sledge hammer and it will fix things, you just need to get there.

I had food funerals daily along with my excuses prior to surgery. Being a few days post op my nose is like a hound dog and certain foods my BF makes for himself make me sick. It's amazing I don't want any of his post thanksgiving creations!!! Focus on giving yourself a chance to relax and recover post op! Food will not seem as important as your overall health! U can do it!!

Do they have you on a pre-op diet?  I get obsessive every time the word diet enters my life.

After surgery, though, I didn't desire anything for nearly a year.  It kind of made me sad instead of obsessive.

I do not have a pure op diet, maybe that's part if not most of my problem, all I keep thinking is... Oh soon I won't be able to eat this, or that... Causing me to eat everything. 

I am hopeful this ends after surgery, if not I'm in a lot of trouble 

It's just "Last Meal Syndrome".  IMO - go for it, enjoy it, for even if you don't have to say goodbye forever, it's going to be a while.

I didn't have to do a pre-op diet (thank goodness) and I gained 21.5 lbs between my consult and my surgery.  I was so worried about what I was going to miss out on.  Turns out it was hard to get an appetite and find things I wanted to eat.  I wasn't obsessed with food because I was so focused on getting in protein and liquids.  My fear before surgery was that the obsession with food would continue but the ability to eat would be gone.  I thought it was going to be torture.  Turns out that it was never an issue for me. 

I know I would have struggled horribly with a pre-op diet.  I had trouble not eating for one night before surgery.  I think it is completely normal!!!  Keep your eye on the prize.  When temptation is there just look at all the before and after photos on this site.  They are so motivating!