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Can you still be a foodie after weight loss surgery?

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I think so. But it just might be a bite or two of great food instead of a plateful as you just might find yourself not hungry at all.

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I LOVE baking and I kept my subscription to Good food magazine after my surgery too.

I'm also member of the chocolate Tasting Club in the UK - admittedly I don't eat any other chocolates, only sample and score the very high quality selection they send out to me quarterly.

And I enjoy all the above. The difference: I don't eat the whole box in one go, I hunt for band-friendly recipes in the magazine and I restrict my baking to special occasions.

Last year, a year after being banded and reaching my lowest weight of 170 lbs, we went to a short holiday in Rome which included a LOT of gelato and fritto misto... I came home a pound or two nuclear, but I accepted that and worked it off in a week. I even bought a Gaggia gelato churning machine which I use every now and then.

I truly believe that you can stay or become a foodie after band surgery - as long as you can leave behind or deal effectively with your food issues (in your head) which made you lose control before. It was a learning curve for me (to begin with, I refused dealing with any non-band-friendly food) but then I learned to do these things with healthy moderation.

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I love food but I don't love eating, if that makes sense. I don't think I used to be a foodie pre-band coz I ate so much rubbish. Once I could only eat so little I wanted the food to be AMAZING, otherwise I'd feel like I wasted the small amount of space I had. So I eat good food but for the enjoyment of the taste but not to get full.

Funnily enough though by wanting premium food I actually ate nutritionally better food than when I could eat anything I liked.

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I am simply no longer interested in food....because, due to the band I have no longer have an appetite and I am never hungry.......NEVER

I have gone grocery shopping and roamed around the store not finding anything interesting.....and come home with little things to snack on....

I can stand and stare into the refrigerator and not find anything I care to eat, even though it is stocked full.....

Cooking and baking was a hobby of mine, I also was a Chef's assistant long time ago in a 5 star restaurant....but now, if I should prepare something, all that work to only throw 90% of it away....

I used to be a foodaholic, could not stop eating....so the opposite does not bother me in the least....I still have foods I enjoy, small delicacies mainly, which I can get at the deli freshly made...

but not food in general. (big meals)...

I don't mind...I enjoy my new healthy skinny life better, and prefer running 10k's, doing yard work shirtless, and now that the weather is here, spending time at beach after work, (which is a short walk away)

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