Why am I craving sweets so badly (especially chocolate!)?

This wouldn't be so unusualy for some, but for me... it is. Before surgery, almost all my life, I could take it or leave it when it came to sweets of any kind. If I had "cravings" it would always be something spicy and/or salty, like pizza, chips and salsa, any sort of mexican, etc. NOW, one year post-op (RNY), comes this tremendous craving for sweets, mostly chocolate. I can hardly stand the inner urges for a chocolate chip cookie or a hersheys kiss. Can there be an explanation for this, especially given the fact that this is very new to me - I never used to eat much sweets/chocolate at all?

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