You do not have to give up your favorite foods. You have to give up eating huge quantities of your favorite foods. THAT'S what this surgery does. I am 13 months out and I eat everything I like once in while, and in very small quantities. I LOVE eating a high protein, high nutrition diet, and feel like $10 million most of the time. I LOVE feeling like and actually going to work out hard five days a week. Besides, after living in this world among fat-phobic people, you should be pretty tough. Actually, you ARE tough, you just haven't tapped into that toughness yet. Relax a little, and be happy about your healthy future, where food will no longer be the center of your universe. It's might nice.