Cravings!!!

OMG the cravings I am having are crazy.  A week and a half post op, 3 weeks on Opti and I am going crazy.  I know I can't eat any of it but how do you get past this.

I'm sorry you are having such a difficult time.  At a week and a half post op there is not much you can do except use distractions to take your mind off the cravings, make sure you are getting in all your fluids.  This is a tough time but you'll get through it.

This may be a little crazy but I imagine eating the food and then my pouch exploding.  I tell myself not worth it.  I knit, croche****ch terrible tv walk around the house, read and go online. Until I have more energy I will be walking to takemymind off food.  I remember at my orientation the dietician saying one death.  That person at a slice of pizza one week post op.  Life is too precious to allow food to consume you.

Hope me this helps and there are many suggestions throughout the forum.  

All the best 

There is nothing crazy about imagining your pouch exploding.  It is stapled together and overeating can cause it to break open and leak.  That is an emergency that can result in death.