I'm just venting here because I have to do something else besides walking into the kitchen one more time.

I'm two weeks post -op and back at work for the third day, and now I totally resent that my office has snacks in the kitchen. I work for a small software company where there's always chips, snacks, fruit, candy, etc in the kitchen. I'm one week into the puree stage, so I can't go and eat the fruit, which would be my choice. I absolutely hate that this food is available. I did so much better post-op when I was home for 10 days.

This just sucks. I'm not even hungry, seriously. Not at all. However, those damn reeces mini eggs look so good. It's a head problem on my side, which I'm aware of. I chewed a stick of gum and that helped. I also know salty foods are my trigger. This has to get easier as the days go on, and in a few days I can move to soft solids like tuna and chicken salad which will help. The sad thing is that I have greek yogurt and some mashed bananas ready to eat, as well as a protein shake. But, I'm sitting on here obsessing about the damn reeces.

So now I have to say: F U office snacks; we have to break up. I'll come up with an elaborate story on how you cheated on me to tell my friends about it.

FYI: You all reading this who think I'm a little nutty; you'll soon get my humor. It's dry and sarcastic and a tad over the top

Cheers,

Carrie

I'm just venting here because I have to do something else besides walking into the kitchen one more time.

I'm two weeks post -op and back at work for the third day, and now I totally resent that my office has snacks in the kitchen. I work for a small software company where there's always chips, snacks, fruit, candy, etc in the kitchen. I'm one week into the puree stage, so I can't go and eat the fruit, which would be my choice. I absolutely hate that this food is available. I did so much better post-op when I was home for 10 days.

This just sucks. I'm not even hungry, seriously. Not at all. However, those damn reeces mini eggs look so good. It's a head problem on my side, which I'm aware of. I chewed a stick of gum and that helped. I also know salty foods are my trigger. This has to get easier as the days go on, and in a few days I can move to soft solids like tuna and chicken salad which will help. The sad thing is that I have greek yogurt and some mashed bananas ready to eat, as well as a protein shake. But, I'm sitting on here obsessing about the damn reeces.

So now I have to say: F U office snacks; we have to break up. I'll come up with an elaborate story on how you cheated on me to tell my friends about it.

FYI: You all reading this who think I'm a little nutty; you'll soon get my humor. It's dry and sarcastic and a tad over the top

Cheers,

Carrie

LoL I am right there with you!!! I'm on day one of my pre-op diet and what does my department decide to order for lunch...PIZZA!!! I just made up an excuse as to why I couldn't join them in the conference room for lunch and sat at my desk drinking my tiny little Optifast shake. Good for you though for resisting all that delicious temptation!

Your office is clearly a lot more restrained than the ones I've worked in. I've never been one to keep candy in my house. I would however buy some for work of which I would have one or two (esp stuff from Coscto because the bags are so big). One time I put the candy out at 9:00 (bridge mix) and took couple pieces at like 2:00 PM I stopped by and the 3lb bag was almost empty!

OMG this made me crack up!! Pre-op I wanted to hold a funeral for my old eating ways and favorite foods...thinking it would be good to mourn their loss. People looked at me funny. Maybe I should have tried the break-up route.

I do have to say going in the break room has been difficult, but not as bad as I thought. I actually joined in lunch today (my lovely protein pudding..Yum), while they had normal meals. I did notice that my nose has become a lot more sensitive...I thouroughly enjoyed smelling all the delicious stuff in there. (torture) lol

The smells..oh the smells. My desk is by the kitchen, so I get to smell everyone's lunches. Wish people were horrible cooks and ate things that smelled like junk. When I was pregnant, I hated smelling anything cooking. Maybe the cure is to get knocked up.. ok, not so much heh.

After I wrote this post, I've been good about staying away from the office goodies. I also did a food log on Thurs as another way to keep me on track. I didn't want to write it down, so I didn't eat it. I also increased my protein the yesterday and today to feel more full. It's helped.

There is a scheduled ice cream party at work today (in 15mins). Seriously, my office loves to eat. I planned my meals around this and accounted for the extra calories. I'll have a scoop of vanilla, and I brought my own pureed, fresh strawberries to put on top, so I feel like it's a treat and I'm not the freak being left out. I think this is a good plan - fingers crossed

OMG! My last job, we created hotel mini bars.. so my entire office was FULL of every kind of candy imaginable to create samples. I would eat so much it was terrible! Actually I think i got it all out of my system, not much of a candy person anymore haha