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Damn it Donna -- you made me snort at work laughing.

Oddly, BWLS (before weight loss surgery) I couldn't have cared less about peanut butter. Seriously. In fact, I actually didn't like it. I am the weirdo that always gave alway all the Reese's Cups in her Halloween candy. That's probably because I was stuffing my face with so many things that it simply didn't seem tempting at all then.

SO, imagine my surprise, when I suddenly could have starred in a scene from Trainspotting -- using peanut butter instead of heroin -- about a year out from surgery.

I swear, the jar has called to me like a beautiful siren:

Come eat my beautiful and creamy peanut body! I am healthy -- honest ... isn't there protein in my peanuts?? I mean, everyone knows that I am healthy -- I am fed to children all the time!! Two tablespoons? NOOOO. You need the whole damn jar. EAT ME RIGHT NOW -- the end of the peanut loving world is coming and I am the only thing that can possibly save you!!!!

Peanut butter is a huge overeating substance for me, post-op. I am fine with almond butter that has no sugar. Peanut butter, and forget it - get away from my jar! I don't even keep it in the house in any form, these days.

I actually hated chocolate before surgery (yes, I am probably the only crazy fat person who hated chocolate), and now I actually crave it regularly. The dark stuff, specifically, which I used to loathe more than reality television and American politics. The more bitter, the better.

Maybe I just got really bitter and nutty when I turned 40 :P

I am pretty sure that cashew butter is the devil.

For me, it's akin to giving free access to Cinemax to a 13 year old cis-gendered boy.

There is such a thing as peanut butter powder. It's got much of the same protein but without the fat and maybe half the calories.

Not it sure if you can smoke it.

PB2. I think I have a years old jar somewhere.

Mine definitely has the potential to be "years old".

Its good to have if you can't hack the taste of a protein shake.

It's also good in vanilla yogurt during a PBCoF (Peanut Butter Crisis of Faith) --

That combination saved me during the debacle of 2015. It was basically my methadone...

My husband called it, "The time I bought a 64 oz jar of creamy Jif at Sam's Club, because it was on sale and my wife started hiding in the pantry eating spoonfuls while swearing at me."

I'm going to have to try that.

The yogurt I mean...not the hiding in the pantry

PB2 makes me cry a lot.

It's good there are other protein sources, but animal sources are always the most complete. In my case, I avoid stuff that's processed because I will seriously suck up that stuff faster than a hoover. Even whey protein sometimes gives me an issue. My "protein shakes" are usually more pureed meat thinned with broth.

Of course, I am sure that no one is surprised that I'm weird!

Have you ever made meat juice popsicles?