I just hate eating

I don't know how long it stays this way. But I'd honestly just be happier if I could live on pellets or something. Nothing sits right. Well, slider foods are fine...cottage cheese and chili and such. Any dense protein , so are the sits like a brick. I just ate a couple ounces of chicken and I feel so uncomfortable. It won't last long, but it makes me dread eating. Any other meat is the same, so are eggs. I can tolerate it, but eating is purely a means to an end. I miss just enjoying something!

You don't have your surgery date posted, but I'm guessing you are in your first year.  Most of us go through this, but it does get easier and then we wish we didn't feel like eating ...

Eat what you can and try new foods every now and then.  I still struggle from time to time and have adapted what I eat to make life easier.  

This will pass

Yes, sorry, 8/29 was my surgery, so about 2 1/2 months.

Oh boy Cathy, me too.  If I could live on protein drinks and yogurt I would be so much happier.  I had ham for dinner... expected taco salad but ham was there.  I could very easily lose it, have to really focus to keep it down.  It will get easier.  We just have to hang in right now.  I keep reminding myself that my goal was to have food not run my life by being so important. Check.

enjoy it while it lasts...

Definitely enjoy it while it lasts and use this to gain momentum and lose the weight. Although it is difficult when nothing sits right (I still have that from time to time), things change eventually and you will be wishing for these days again.  My husband and I went out to dinner the other night and I ordered fish, and he commented that I almost ate a normal portion. I reminded him that I do not aspire to go back to my old ways. I didn't even eat the whole piece of fish and it doesn't really come with any sides (a little relish and rice-which I left on the plate), so I was fine with what I ordered, but do not want to start eating how I did before.

Portion sizes can be such a mind game, right? I've had times where I've eaten close to a normie serving size of meat and I start to beat myself up for it, BUT then I remember that I only ate 4-6 ounces total of food...and had no sides, no bread, and no dessert...and I ease up on myself. 

I don't ever want to go back to the old ways: Pre-dinner wine, bread, side salad/soup, more bread, entreé, more bread, and then dessert. ( And then getting a basket of bread to go...haha. ) That sounds like hell on Earth now! I'm queasy just thinking about the sheer volume of food I used to eat. 

I definitely relate.  You forgot the appetizers!  Yes, I had a couple of clams from my husband's appetizer (straight protein), NO salad, and NO dessert. I truly do NOT miss that overstuffed feeling. I like to eat until I am satisfied now and am happy feeling light and not bloated after eating. I try to focus on the experience of being out with people vs. gorging on everything. It is such a change, but I am happy with my new normal and wish I had done this years ago.

The honeymoon period didn't feel very honeymoonish a lot of times.  Losing what had become normal, adjusting to rapid change, and fear of the unknown made for some low moments.  Today, the fear of dying SSMO feels conquered as long as I hate the idea of going back more than I hate going forward.  Yes, purely a means to an end and it has been worth it.

I am 11 weeks going on 12 weeks out, I find that any ground meat I have no problems with,  but whole chicken, steak or pork don't settle to well.