I'm wondering if I'm the only one experiencing this. Ive found that now that I have restriction, I no longer receive the same pleasure from food that I once did. I tend to eat fast and get stuck more than I should. I also get tired of eating because it takes so long! Food isn't as fun and delicious as it used to be! I guess I should be happy about this but I miss the pleasure I used to experience. Am I the only one?

No your not i feel the same way some days, cant eat fast like i use to seem like i dont get the full taste of the food its hard to explain!

That's an interesting question. For my first few years as a bandster, I felt like I was actually enjoying my food more because I wasn't shoveling it down - I was eating slowly, carefully, and really tasting it. But gradually I realized that a lot of food had lost its charm for me. It still tasted fine, but I wasn't bothered when I couldn't finish eating a meal. That actually turned out to be a blessing. When I started having problems and all the fluid was removed from my band, all that food suddenly started tasting marvelous again. I'm not sure if being a bandster so long had re-trained my brain's food pleasure center, or if the pressure of my band against my vagus nerves was interfering with the transmission of pleasure sensations, or what.

I would love to be there, but I'm not 100% yet. How long did this take you? I will say, I don't enjoy some foods the way I used to, but I still miss it.

For me, I believe the thrill of losing so much weight, the added mobility and how I look and feel has pushed those emotions so far back that I never think about them anymore.

But thanks for reminding me!

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I was banded on June 27, 2012 and I've had 4 fills, 6.5cc in a 10cc band. I started feeling this way after my 3rd fill. I'm finally starting to lose weight so this is a good thing!

That's an interesting question. For my first few years as a bandster, I felt like I was actually enjoying my food more because I wasn't shoveling it down - I was eating slowly, carefully, and really tasting it. But gradually I realized that a lot of food had lost its charm for me. It still tasted fine, but I wasn't bothered when I couldn't finish eating a meal. That actually turned out to be a blessing. When I started having problems and all the Fluid was removed from my band, all that food suddenly started tasting marvelous again. I'm not sure if being a bandster so long had re-trained my brain's food pleasure center, or if the pressure of my band against my vagus nerves was interfering with the transmission of pleasure sensations, or what.

I had the same experience. early on I enjoyed food so much more - I wasnt shovelling it down and therefore was actually tasting it. And I lost my fear that eating it would make me fat! As I gained restriction, some foods lost their charm and some became downright repulsive - I loathe bread now and the smell of grilling cheese, ugh, I have to leave the house. So pizza,bread, toast and stuff, yuck, dont want it. Fruit lost its appeal.

Then I got unfilled for chemo. Over that six months, bread tasted amazing, pizza was fantastic and an apple a real pleasure. Got filled again and suddenly those foods were horrid again.

So weird!

Now I have major IBS issues and food intolerances and am on a low fodmap diet - its so darn restrictive, and combined with not needing to eat a lot because of my lapband I just dont get much joy out of eating. I go out and there's literally NOTHING on a menu I can eat (cant have any garlic or onion, no wheat, no lactose). I end up with a bowl of wedges or fries and that's it.

But I dont really care. I just dont care about food that much now.

I've had my band for over 2 years now, and just recently truly started to listen to it. I personally LOVE the fact that I don't have that same draw to food anymore. It's freeing. All of the stuff I cook is full of flavor but once I am full I'm not interested in it anymore. I was a major binge-eater so being able to "eat to live" rather than living to eat has been fantastic