OK everyone.. I really need your help!

Ohh yes a good one too.. Those doggone food pushers!

I would say it's important to realize just how much your relationship with food will change. Like some said, it's hard to get it all in when your body really has no interest in eating. It can be scary when you are told to move on to solid foods and start adding more variety. And I have always been called a "slow" eater,but eating slowly pre-op and eating slowly post-op are 2 VERY different things. It's hard to take 30 minutes to eat 1/4 cup of food, especially when you are only eating because you know you are supposed to. I really just want to gulp it down and get it over with so I can go do something else. But I have found out the hard way that eating too fast results in lots of pain and the foamies are NO FUN!!! It is such a change from the way you think about food before surgery. I know that it is supposed to get better and more normal, and that someday I will probably wish these days were back, when I can eat more nomally and actually feel hunger and crave foods again and have to fight wanting to eat too much!

Rhonda

yes... a hard point to this surgery for most of us i believe..Thanks.

 Not sure if this will help or what you are looking for but something I am having to work very hard at, besides the practicing the new eating is "retraining" my thinking process.  I have to learn I eat to survive not survive to eat. Surgery will fix my body but I am responsible for "fixing" my thoughts. Support groups with "bariatric buddies" is going to be a huge huge help. No matter how supportive your family/friends are, there is no way they can comprehend the fears and frustrations that we are going through. Along with support group setting, whether online or real-life, is counseling one on one until you build a strong foundation for your new life to grow on. Pre op and post op are very shaky.  I dont know about anyone else but I feel like I could snap at any minute from frustration, fears, the "what if" thinking and just pure n simple information overload.  And counseling and support groups help me tremendously with that. 

Thanks Kimmie! A vaery valid and needed topic for sure!