I can't be the only post op who is totally obsessed with food, can I?

I'm about 2 months post op RNY, and for the last 3 weeks or so, I think of almost nothing but what to eat next. I've been successfully battling the urges to graze, but don't feel too hopeful right now that I will have the will to keep denying myself. I don't see many posts from others with this problem. I see so many posts about post ops who don't use food as a crutch anymore; how they forget(!) to eat sometimes; food isn't important in their lives anymore, it doesn't taste good anymore, etc., etc. Just because we have had the surgery and physically can't eat the quantities we did before, how can this possibly change our thought processes? Let's face it, the vast majority of us had this surgery because we were obsessed with food, preoccupied with food, addicted to food, whatever you want to call it. To those of you who are no longer a slave to the food (and it seems like most of you), please explain how a surgery has changed your brain. I want food just as much as I did pre op - maybe more now that I can't just satisfy the urge whenever I want to like I did before. Thanks.

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