What do your splurge meals look like?

I resemble that response, which is why I responded the way I did initially.  It is hard, early post op, when you are CRAVING JUST REGULAR FOOD, to not think about splurging.  But I've lived it.  I gained back almost 100 pounds from my lowest weight.  Be vigilant.

Looking at others posts - I do have thin crust pizza about once a week, one slice.  It fits in my calories, and I SAVOR it.  I don't consider it a splurge though.  When I get the munchies, and want chocolate or crunchies, I will eat a couple of my power crunch protein bars.  That will do it for me.

I don't mean to sound mean or snappy.  I just don't wish for ANYONE to have to be going through what I am now.  It's such a struggle to have to lose the weight again.  i'm grateful for my tool, though.  But it sure isn't as easy as the first time.

Pizza is such a weird thing for me.  I figured I'd miss it.  A LOT.  But I'm almost 3 years out and I don't.  I want to miss it?  I feel like I should miss it?  But I've had a few chances to eat it - or even to just try a bite of someone else's, and I find that I have zero interest.  

This weirds me out in ways I can't describe.  

LOL Gwen I can imagine.  But at this point I can only guess I'll want pizza when I hit maintenance.  There is this one Mom & Pop place in our little town...that's the one I miss now.  I don't crave it, but once in a while I think it will be nice to be able to eat a piece once I'm done losing weight.  Who knows how I'll feel then...I might be just like you and think...pizza?  Meh!  lol

It's the weirdest thing ever, since I used to LOVE pizza.  The fact that I don't care about it now can make me wonder who I am.  "Who is this alien living your life that doesn't care about pizza?"  

The one time I had real pizza four months ago made me cry.  The fat head dough isn't so bad.  Last time I was going to make pizza, but instead got distracted (of course) and made stromboli instead.  

It is an interesting point, though.  I find I crave the ideas of things rather than the things themselves, now.  When I break down and have the things, they are almost always meh-tastic.  Never worth the money.  I guess maybe I crave the memory of things?

Maybe it's like how I used to think shows from my childhood were amazing (see Jem and the Holograms) and I watch them currently and have no idea what the heck I was thinking.  Oh, food nostalgia....

Right.  I think it's craving the idea.  Or craving a part of my history.  This is part of the thing that makes me feel disconnected from myself at times - that the things I cared about no longer have the same pull for me.  

Jem and the Holograms, now I know pretty much how old you are! 

Dang, I just dated myself too...

Pizza doesn't do it for me anymore either!

Thankfully other things do, right? :D  Love of pizza is a small price to pay for the life I have now.  

Me too!  Almost three years post surgery and have no desire at all for a piece of pizza.  I won't even eat the toppings.  It holds no interest for me at all.